Psychology audiobooks

Coming Alive

By: Barry Michels & Phil Stutz

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tap into the life force to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential with this transformative book by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools (and the resident shrinks on Goop).

In The Tools, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth and self-actualization by... Read more

Underground

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale & Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
 
On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who... Read more

Seductive Poison

By: Deborah Layton

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Deborah Layton

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the "truly unforgettable" (Kirkus Review) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity.

From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult... Read more

On the Move

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his... Read more

Trying Not to Try

By: Edward Slingerland

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being
 
Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who... Read more

Nonsense

By: Jamie Holmes

Narrated by: Jamie Holmes

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, even empathy
 
Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it’s a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear medical diagnosis, we face constant uncertainty. And we’re... Read more

He Wanted the Moon

By: Mimi Baird & Eve Claxton

Narrated by: Jane Alexander, Paul Boehmer & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner

A Washington Post Best Book of 2015

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.
 
Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in... Read more

The Sweet Spot

By: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.

Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by... Read more

Power Score

By: Geoff Smart, Randy Street & Alan Foster

Narrated by: Randy Street & Alan Foster

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

ghSMART, the bestselling team behind Who: The A Method for Hiring, returns with a breakthrough formula for how the best leaders and teams deliver results.
 
“ghSMART is the world’s top firm for helping leaders hire talented teams and run them at full power. Nothing is more important.”—Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of Mojo and What Got... Read more

Rising Strong

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!

Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a... Read more

Learn or Die

By: Edward D. Hess

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn--the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation--to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology,... Read more

How to Have a Good Day

By: Caroline Webb

Narrated by: Caroline Webb

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.
 
Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the... Read more

Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.

Why... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. 

With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Exuberance

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We have learned much about depression, but what about its opposite? Why hasn't the human emotion that lifts us, inspires us, drives us on, and makes life worth living been discussed-and celebrated? In this outstanding book, bestselling author Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison explores exuberance in all its unrestrained, joyful energy, and shows how its... Read more

Confidence

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work—the... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

Delivered From Distraction

By: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D.

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and... Read more

I Need Your Love - Is That True?

By: Byron Katie

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more

Copy This!

By: Paul Orfalea & Ann Marsh

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Copy This!, Paul Orfalea's inspiring personal story of turning lessons into lemonade, may be the most unusual business memoir ever published.

Paul Orfalea struggles mightily to read, to write, and to sit still through business meetings. So what's the problem? By working with the obstacles life dealt him–he call his dyslexia and ADHD "learning... Read more

The Ape in the Corner Office

By: Richard Conniff

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle.

You’re ambitious and want to get ahead, but what’s the best way to do it? Become the biggest, baddest predator? The proverbial 800-pound gorilla? Or does nature teach you to be more subtle and... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

You're Wearing That?

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that... Read more