Family & Relationships audiobooks

Rich Dad Poor Dad

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich Dad Poor Dad is the #1 personal finance book of all time. Listen today to set yourself up for a wealthy, happy future.Robert Kiyosaki’s easy tips and straight talk will…Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become richChallenge the belief that your house is an assetDefine once and for all an asset and a liabilityShow... Read more

The Grieving Brain

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NPR SciFri Book Club PickNext Big Idea Club's ""Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022""Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.In The Grieving Brain,... Read more

The Good Mother Myth

By: Nancy Reddy

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.

When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a perfect mother—a woman who was constantly available, endlessly patient, and immediately invested in her child... Read more

Secure Relating

By: Sue Marriott & Ann Kelley

Narrated by: Ann Kelley

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist Uncensored podcast offer a groundbreaking new clinical perspective that integrates modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and current cultural context to create a hopeful framework for deeper and more permanent change, growth and connection in all types of... Read more

Your Brain's Not Broken

By: Tamara Rosier, PhD

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does because it's wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn't. It does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble... Read more

Unfit Parent

By: Jessica Slice

Narrated by: Finlay Stevenson

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“A glorious, revelatory book.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of An Immense World

A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting—the joys, stigma, and discrimination—and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids

“A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent... Read more

Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one... Read more

Ace

By: Angela Chen

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.

What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more

Big Friendship

By: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Narrated by: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.

Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their... Read more

The Way We Never Were

By: Stephanie Coontz

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were,... Read more

Matriarch

By: Tina Knowles

Narrated by: Tina Knowles

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A revealing personal life story like no other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood

“You are Celestine,” she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. “Like my sister and my grandmother.” And there, under the pecan tree, as she did... Read more

Autism Out Loud

By: Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello & Adrian Wood

Narrated by: Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello & Adrian Wood

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Kate Swenson of Finding Cooper's Voice, Carrie Cariello of What Color is Monday?, and Adrian Wood of Tales of an Educated Debutante

In this moving narrative of resilience and pure love, three mothers share their experiences and learnings about life alongside autism

Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood and Carrie Cariello are from... Read more

Group

By: Christie Tate

Narrated by: Christie Tate

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—and finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had... Read more

One and Only

By: Lauren Sandler

Narrated by: Lauren Sandler

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Lauren Sandler is an only child and the mother of one. After investigating what only children are really like and whether stopping at one child is an answer to reconciling motherhood and modernity, she learned a lot about herself—and a lot about our culture's assumptions. In this heartfelt work, Sandler legitimizes a discussion about... Read more

Stop Walking on Eggshells for Partners

By: Randi Kreger & Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you often feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to in your relationship? Does your partner exhibit intense, irrational, or violent rage? Are you often the victim of gaslighting or extreme blame? If your partner has borderline personality disorder (BPD) or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), it's important to remember that it is not your... Read more

The Wild Edge of Sorrow

By: Francis Weller

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"It blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." —Anderson Cooper, All There Is

The Wild Edge of Sorrow offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive.

Introducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters... Read more

The Vaccine Book

By: Robert W. Sears

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vaccine Book offers parents a fair, impartial, fact-based resource from the most trusted name in pediatrics. Dr. Bob devotes each chapter in the book to a disease/vaccine pair and offers a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible... Read more

The Power of Parting

By: Eamon Dolan

Narrated by: Eamon Dolan

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A myth-shattering, inspiring book that combines research, reportage, and memoir to explore the growing phenomenon of estrangement from toxic relatives—showing it not as a tragedy, but as an empowering and effective solution to the heartbreak of family abuse.

After decades of enduring his mother’s physical and psychological torment, after years of... Read more

Just for the Summer

By: Fay Keenan

Narrated by: Harriet Hare

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh start in a picture-perfect English town brings the hope of new friends, new adventures and even new romance in this heart-warming novel from TOP 100 BESTSELLER Fay KeenanWhen Kate Harris accepts the job of redecorating her brother Aidan’s house in the picturesque town of Willowbury, she knows it’s just a stop gap before she has to decide... Read more

How to Stay Married

By: Harrison Scott Key

Narrated by: Harrison Scott Key & Lauren Key

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.

One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

I Feel Bad About My Neck

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Nora Ephron

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read more

Lost & Found

By: Kathryn Schulz

Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “profound and beautiful” (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“I will stake my reputation on you being blown away by Lost & Found.”—Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn... Read more

Why Does He Do That?

By: Lundy Bancroft

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and to change your life. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men shows you how to improve, survive, or leave an abusive... Read more