Self-Improvement 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

Atomic Habits

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By: James Clear
Narrated by: James Clear
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller.
Over 20 million copies sold!
Translated into 60+ languages!

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to... Read more

Unmasking for Life

The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically

By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Live your best, unashamedly unmasked Autistic life with this invaluable resource featuring tools for navigating friendships, family, work, and love, from the author of Unmasking Autism.

“Unmasking for Life should be read by not only autistic people but their loved ones, to ensure they facilitate a truly fulfilling life.”—Eric Garcia, author of... Read more

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

A Memoir

By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Poet Maggie Smith narrates her memoir of gorgeous prose about her heartbreaking divorce. Maggie Smith is a lovely writer and explores the purpose of memoir as she mines her formerly married and currently divorcing selves. I've seen this referred to as a middle-aged coming-of-age and I think that's an apt description. You Could Make This Place... Read more

How to Keep House While Drowning

A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

By: KC Davis
Narrated by: KC Davis & Dr. Raquel Martin
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

“Like a good podcast that you wish you could always return to and underline, this audiobook is a perfect morale boost. Davis gives practical advice and language around what normally feels insurmountable. Read more

The Next Conversation

Argue Less, Talk More

By: Jefferson Fisher
Narrated by: Jefferson Fisher
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

“The Next Conversation by Jefferson Fisher is a brilliant guide on how to communicate better. I love that it's told from the perspective of just a guy who happens to be good at this, not some expert with all the "right things" to say. There's some stuff in it that you already know if you've done any work around communication, but each chapter has... Read more

Love in a F*cked-Up World

How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together

By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Dean Spade
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

“This is narrated wonderfully by the author, Dean Spade. There's a lot of great stuff in here. I loved the mix of information from different professionals, personal stories, and made-up couples/scenarios to better illustrate a point. There are a few worksheets and tables in this book and they are described well in the audiobook. Libro.fm also... Read more

Burnout

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“Working in an industry I’m super passionate about makes it REALLY hard to set healthy boundaries. When I’m not promoting books, I’m reading them. When I’m not on a Zoom call with an author, I’m stalking their #bookstagram profiles online. Books all day every day! The Nagoski siblings are two of my favorite nonfiction authors. They know how to... Read more

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“Burkeman’s title emphasizes that if we make it to 80 years of age, we live roughly four thousand weeks. That intro alone sounds pretty sobering, but Burkeman takes us through philosophers’ and scientists’ wisdom across centuries with conclusions that are very optimistic. Burke reassures us with stories such as the American who in 1969 went... Read more

Outlive

The Science and Art of Longevity

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

“An important and readable book by longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia. He explains Medicine 3.0, the Four Horsemen, and how we can think about long-term health in a different way in order to create our best health path. This book could change your life. Read more

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford
Narrated by: Maria Bamford
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“What a zany, psyche-med laced, adorably cringy, appropriately humorous, and thoroughly relatable peek into the comedic and troubled brain of Maria Bamford! Both heartfelt and tragic, it’s a fascinating window into daily challenges faced by those who struggle with intrusive thoughts, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, and attempting life during this... Read more

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“When Katherine May set out to write her book, Wintering, she could not have foreseen that it would be published in the middle of a pandemic, nor that it would be so beautifully suited to our current circumstances. Wintering is the author's account of how she made it through unforeseen difficult times and depression (emotional winters). Gentle,... Read more

Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater... Read more

Free

My Search for Meaning

By: Amanda Knox
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an “ordinary” life—revealing hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was... Read more

Meditations for Mortals

Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

“Oliver Burkeman is taking on self help and productivity for real people living real lives. It's about what can be done, about realizing that not doing everything is part of life. Read more

Dare to Lead

Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

“I LOVE this book. I learned so much during my first listen via Libro.fm that I am going to read it again (this time in hardcover, with colleagues reading alongside so we can discuss). It's super-motivating and inspiring, but totally research-based. I feel that leaders at every type of organization would benefit from reading this. (Also: I got to... Read more

Supercommunicators

How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg
Narrated by: Charles Duhigg
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

“This was an engaging book to listen to! I loved learning about communication styles and how to do it effectively in different situations. Read more

Untamed

By: Glennon Doyle
Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“I read this book non-stop for a week, underlining, reading passages to my friends & recommending it to anyone with a pulse. There are many great stories inside, but their charm & power, really, is all Glennon. She is a spiritual seeker & leader who loves reality tv, a formidable activist on the global scale who gets anxiety sweats... Read more

How We Learn to Be Brave

Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

By: Mariann Edgar Budde
Narrated by: Mariann Edgar Budde
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

How We Learn to Be Brave is an inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.

On January 21, 2025, many Americans were introduced to Bishop Mariann... Read more

The Creative Act

A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin
Narrated by: Rick Rubin
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“Accessible advice on living your best life for everyone, not just artists. Though, if you listen to Rubin, we are all artists at heart. Absolutely loved the melodic chime at the end of each chapter. Read more

Laziness Does Not Exist

By: Devon Price
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.

Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles.

Like... Read more

Think Again

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

By: Adam Grant
Narrated by: Adam Grant
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“In an increasingly polarized world, open-mindedness and intellectual flexibility are so important. Learn how to unlearn and rethink. Stay curious! Read more

The Light We Carry

Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

“Michelle Obama is back with more words of wisdom, pillars of humility, and just simply Michelle. The Light We Carry is an uplighting book that will help you deal with the emotions and isolation that we have had to deal with during and after the pandemic. But more than that, she has compiled questions that she has been asked again and again, and... Read more

How to Know a Person

The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks
Narrated by: David Brooks
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

“Brooks went from zero to hero in my mind. His deep research and obvious self-reflection glows in this book. I not only have new terminology to grapple with people who don't listen, but also used his story telling inquiry for richer conversations with my family. Read more

Emergent Strategy

Emergent Strategy: Book #0

By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

“Perfect intro to those looking to start organizing and facilitating activist spaces! 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

Tiny Experiments

How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

By: Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Narrated by: Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

"I loved this profound, practical, and generous book." —Oliver Burkeman

A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter

Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college... Read more

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition

Features a new foreword

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

“Brown's book concentrates on self-compassion and cultivating: resilient spirit, creativity, calm, & stillness, just to name a few. Read more

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

“As a bookseller, I often have customers ask me for something soothing - a calm book they can put on before bed or when they're trying to relax. This fits into that category perfectly. Amy lends her novelist eye to documenting her backyard bird dramas in this intimate, journal-like book. Great for anybody that is into nature, birds, art, etc.... Read more

The Art of Gathering

How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“Whether you're running a classroom, holding a meeting, or hosting a party, this book from Priya Parker offers a ton of insight on what makes a good gathering. Read more

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

By: Mark Manson
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

“Focus on the important things to care about in life, not the little things what are meaningless. It’s not the more we have, embrace the negative not the positive. We learn from the negative. Mason very well put it that our metrics and values determine how we live - instead of thinking how well do I want to live, think how much pain am I willing... Read more

Falling Back in Love with Being Human

Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom
Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

“In this highly recommendable collection of poetic letters full of love, pain, sadness, anger, hope and forgiveness, Kai Cheng Tom speaks to her trans* feminine sisters, but also people who have hurt her or have been hostile towards her and others. Read more

Finding Me

A Memoir

By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“A powerful story about self-understanding and determination to seizing the life you want. Read more

Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari
Narrated by: Johann Hari
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again

“Read this book to... Read more

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“In What Happened to You?, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D Perry discuss the effects of trauma on the human brain, especially the young brain, and how our brain and minds are resilient, how these traumas affect each of us later in life, and how we heal from them. In a balanced back and forth between very personal stories from Oprah's life,... Read more

Beyond Anxiety

Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

By: Martha Beck
Narrated by: Martha Beck & Maria Shriver
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INDIE BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within

We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends... Read more

Cults Like Us

Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

By: Jane Borden
Narrated by: Jane Borden
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

For readers of Fantasyland and Cultish, a colorful and enlightening pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the... Read more

The Courage to Be Disliked

How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness

By: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm & January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

An international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.

Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal... Read more

The Mountain is You

Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

By: Brianna Wiest
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and... Read more

Set Boundaries, Find Peace

A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Narrated by: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Length: 8 hours

“Enjoyed listening to these tips and tricks to setting boundaries within family and work relationships. Learning about all the ways I could be taking better care of myself is always a welcome experience. Read more

Big Magic

Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

“A must-read for all creatives (and those desiring more creativity in their lives). A surprisingly grounded, full-hearted guide for opening yourself up to inspiration, dreaming big, and embracing the Big Magic for a creative life. Read more

How to Love Better

The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

By: Yung Pueblo
Narrated by: Yung Pueblo
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Lighter offers a blueprint for deepening your compassion, kindness, and gratitude so you can truly grow in harmony with another person and build stronger connections in all your relationships.

“A beautiful offering from the heart, to the heart.”—Elizabeth Gilbert

“Yung Pueblo holds a mirror to the... Read more

I Am Maria

My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home

By: Maria Shriver
Narrated by: Maria Shriver
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days.

I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver’s own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and... Read more

The Power of Ritual

Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more

Good Soil

The Education of an Accidental Farmhand

By: Jeff Chu
Narrated by: Jeff Chu
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm

“I needed this book. I think you need it, too.”—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found... Read more

Attached

The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep-- Love

By: Amir Levine, M.D. & Rachel Heller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

"A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship."
--John Gray, PhD., bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist... Read more

We Can Do Hard Things

Answers to Life's 20 Questions

By: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach & Amanda Doyle
Narrated by: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach & Amanda Doyle
Length: TBA

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things—the guidebook for being alive—to help fellow travelers find their way through life.

When you travel through a new country, you need a guidebook.

When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy,... Read more

Cherished Belonging

The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times

By: Gregory Boyle
Narrated by: Gregory Boyle
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

“It is not often that I want to begin a book again as soon as I finish it, but I listened to Gregory Boyle read this on Libro.fm, and as soon as it was complete, all I could think of was getting the book (but we kept selling out because I couldn’t stop telling you all about it!) and reading it again. I wanted to immerse myself in the humor,... Read more

The Artist's Way

25th Anniversary Edition

Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth GilbertThe Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was... Read more

How to ADHD

An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.

“The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many... Read more