Health bestsellers

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Jonathan Haidt
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“Raising kids in the digital age is no easy feat. For current or aspiring parents, this book provides some absolutely essential information on the current crisis with kids and how to get out of it. Read more

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

“A beautiful dissection of trauma and its effects on the brain. One of the world’s foremost experts on trauma uses recent studies to show how trauma reshapes parts of us. The author frames trauma in a whole new way and makes you really consider the true definition of it. This book outlines how the traumas people carry can impact their capacity to... Read more

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old

Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

By: Brooke Shields
Narrated by: Brooke Shields
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

This program is read by the author.

From the face of a generation comes a voice of experience, honesty and truth. Brooke Shields narrates a powerful account of her aging experience. A master storyteller, Brooke delivers a remarkable narration with humor and grace. Be prepared to listen, laugh and learn as she flips the script on the idea of what... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... Read more

Sociopath

A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne
Narrated by: Patric Gagne
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“This is a fascinating story from Patric Gagne outlining a life as a sociopath. For anyone interested in mental health, family relationships, and hearing life stories of fascinating people. Read more

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: TBA

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is... Read more

This One Wild and Precious Life

The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World

By: Sarah Wilson
Narrated by: Sarah Wilson
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” — ELIZABETH GILBERTWill you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one, wild and precious life? From New York... Read more

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.

For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less... Read more

Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor
Narrated by: James Nestor
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

“An important book for all to listen to or read. Something as simple as how we breathe, is so important to our overall health. This book breaks down the research of why the breath is important and gives you practice exercises at the end. Read more

Outlive

The Science and Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia, MD
Narrated by: Peter Attia, MD
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes

“A perfect guide on everything you need to know about how to live better for longer. Peter Attia draws on years of medical expertise to make us aware of modern medicine’s shortcomings so we can come to the doctor better prepared. My favorite part of this book’s approach is its emphasis on the art of longevity. Outlive will teach you how to apply... Read more

Good Energy

The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means, MD & Calley Means
Narrated by: Casey Means, MD
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?
    Our ability to prevent and reverse these... Read more

Breakthrough

A Story of Hope, Resilience and Mental Health Recovery

By: Ahmed Hankir
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

In Breakthrough, World Health Organization Award–winning psychiatrist and mental health advocate Dr. Ahmed Hankir delivers a unique and powerful insight into mental health and wellness, mental illness, mental health treatment, and the culture surrounding mental health by tracing his own personal recovery journey from impoverished and shunned... Read more

Rest Is Resistance

A Manifesto

Rest Is Resistance: Book #1

By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more

The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

“An absolutely epic synthesis of an emerging consensus on mind/body research and it’s implications for public health. Mate is already a well respected doctor specializing in addiction treatment (see his bestseller In The Realm of a Hungry Ghosts). The impacts of trauma (both major and minor), especially during childhood, cannot be overstated, and... Read more

ADHD is Awesome

A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness & Kim Holderness
Narrated by: Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, Nathan Rosborough, Ann Marie Taepke, Tyrrell Harrell & Lola Holderness
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“This book helped me better understand myself and my son. It was practical and fun! Read more

Dopamine Nation

Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By: Dr. Anna Lembke
Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,
as heard on Fresh Air

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is... Read more

All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

USA Today BestsellerA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health.For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored,... Read more

Ultra-Processed People

Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart
Narrated by: Miranda Hart
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

The #1 bestseller

Packed with hard-won wisdoms and gentle revelations, this is Miranda's honest exploration of the lessons that have helped her.

Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title!

Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult... Read more

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Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson
Narrated by: Anonymous & Gillian Anderson
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

“A really thoughtful and moving exploration of sexuality, fantasy, and desire. This book is a collection of anonymous essays featuring true stories about women and nonbinary people. What do people have to say about sex when no one can hear? In what ways are feminine presenting people expected to perform in the bedroom? And what do they really... Read more

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness

A Memoir

By: Sarah Ramey
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens & Sarah Ramey
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

"A best memoir of 2020" —BookPage

The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.

In her harrowing, defiant, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism

By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond.



Menopause is not a disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more

Come Together

The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.

“Emily Nagoski is a national treasure—helping us all understand how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives.”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

In Come... Read more

Divergent Mind

Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed For You

By: Jenara Nerenberg
Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted... Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening... Read more

Blind Spots

When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

By: Marty Makary, MD
Narrated by: Marty Makary, MD
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Blind Spots written and read by Dr Marty Makary

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay—an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.

More Americans have peanut allergies today than at... Read more

Being (Sick) Enough

Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard

By: Jessica Graham
Narrated by: Jessica Graham
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Wise, visceral essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer, neurodivergent trauma-resolution guide Jessica Graham

In an unapologetic look at living well with trauma and chronic illness, writer and meditation teacher Jessica Graham offers smart, funny, raw, and mindful insights on untangling—and... Read more

Why We Sleep

Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

By: Matthew Walker
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“If I told you scientists discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer, enhances your memory, makes you more creative, protects you from cancer and dementia, wards off colds and the flu, lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, and makes you feel happier and less anxious, would you be interested? This striking... Read more

The Color of Everything

A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

By: Cory Richards
Narrated by: Cory Richards
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights.

“An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Becoming Nicole

“In order to escape madness, I will live madly. I... Read more

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind

A Powerful Plan to Improve Mood, Overcome Anxiety, and Protect Memory for a Lifetime of Optimal Mental Health

By: Dr. Georgia Ede
Narrated by: Dr. Georgia Ede
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Combine the surprising truth about brain food with the cutting-edge science of brain metabolism to achieve extraordinary emotional, cognitive, and physical health.
 
Are you struggling with attention problems, mood swings, food obsession, or depression? Whatever the issue, you have far more control over your thoughts, feelings, and behavior than... Read more

On Being A Therapist, 6th Edition

By: Jeffrey A. Kottler
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping others. In this thoroughly revised and updated sixth edition, Jeffrey Kottler explores many of the challenges that therapists face in their practices... Read more

It Didn't Start With You

How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn
Narrated by: Mark Wolynn
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our... Read more

The New Menopause

Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more

Slow AF Run Club

The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans
Narrated by: Martinus Evans
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

“Listen, I don’t want an Olympian (superhuman god or medal winner) to tell me how to run, I’d rather learn at the heels of marathoner Martinus Evans aka Instagram’s @ 300poundsandrunning. This guide is a gift to all 'beginner, nontraditional, slow, fat' runners - warm, funny, welcoming, accessible, and easy to follow, with practical advice and... Read more

The Radium Girls

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

By: Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.


As the... Read more

You Are Not a Before Picture

How to finally make peace with your body, for good

By: Alex Light
Narrated by: Alex Light
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light. When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the... Read more

The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen
Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

“Rosen deftly explores how language, the law, politics and the media impact our perceptions of 'madness', while also telling us the moving life story of his genius childhood friend Michael who is battling schizophrenia. Well-researched. Moving. Thought-provoking. Unforgettable. Read more

Sex Talks

The 5 Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

By: Vanessa Marin
Narrated by: Vanessa Marin & Xander Marin
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

The definitive guide to creating the sex life of your wildest dreams—just by talking about it!—from sexpert couple Vanessa and Xander Marin.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AARP.org Books to Improve Your Love Life

Why is it so hard to talk about sex, even with the person who regularly sees you naked?

You know communication is important in a... Read more

Why We Remember

Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath, PhD
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Charan Ranganath, PhD
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and... Read more

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins
Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION

'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.'

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.

At six years old,... Read more

The Way Out

A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

By: Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv
Narrated by: Alan Gordon
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.

Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain.

Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the... Read more

The Menopause Brain

New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence

By: Lisa Mosconi PhD
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause successfully and come out the other side with an even better brain.

Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia to brain fog. As a... Read more

The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

By: Harvey Karp
Narrated by: Tim Fannon
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Never again will you have to stand by helplessly while your little baby cries and cries. There is a way to calm most crying babies . . . usually in minutes!

Thousands of parents, from regular moms and dads to Hollywood superstars, have come to baby expert Dr. Harvey Karp to learn his remarkable techniques for soothing babies and increasing... Read more

Anti-Diet

Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

By: Christy Harrison
Narrated by: Christy Harrison
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast. 68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as... Read more

The Galveston Diet

The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

A patient-proven eating and lifestyle program to balance nutrition and sustain weight loss—including more than 40 delicious recipes and 6 weeks of meal plans—tailored to women in midlife.

“I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits and yet the scale keeps moving in the wrong direction. What’s going on?!”

Time and again, this is the question Dr.... Read more

Inflamed

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Narrated by: Raj Patel & Rupa Marya
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

This program is read by the authors.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid... Read more

The Final Pandemic

An Antidote To Medical Tyranny

By: Dr Samantha Bailey & Dr Mark Bailey
Narrated by: Dr Samantha Bailey
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Humanity is under assault from pandemics but not for the reasons that the mainstream sources portray. This book examines the claims regarding alleged “contagious” disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 to shed more light on what they are, or perhaps more importantly, what they are not. The belief that germs from the natural environment (or a... Read more

The Secret Language of the Body

Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind

By: Jennifer Mann & Karden Rabin
Narrated by: Jennifer Mann & Karden Rabin
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“Inspiring, refreshing and practical - a delightfully lucid guide to healing yourself.” –Bessel van der Kolk, MD., New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the ScoreFrom two mind-body practitioners comes the new essential self-healing bible—a revolutionary body-first guide to reducing stress, resolving long-term pain, and healing from... Read more

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition, Revised and Updated

A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

By: Evelyn Tribole MS, RDN, CEDRD-S & Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

The go-to resource—now fully revised and updated—for building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all.When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge listners to embrace the... Read more

What Fresh Hell Is This?

Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You

By: Heather Corinna
Narrated by: Heather Corinna & Aria Baci
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

What to Expect When You’re Not Expected to Expect Anything Anymore
 
Did you see the title and flame-filled cover of this book, and did your weary, sweaty, confused, and exasperated soul scream, That one! That is the book for me!!? If so, I’d first like to extend my deepest sympathies, an ice pack, and some of these very helpful edibles. If it’s... Read more