Psychology audiobooks

Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts... Read more

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming

By: J. M. Thompson

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.“Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was... Read more

Wonderworks

By: Angus Fletcher

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.

Literature is a... Read more

Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?

Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024

Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to... Read more

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

By: Baek Sehee

Narrated by: Jully Lee

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee.

The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a... Read more

Inspired

By: Matt Richtel

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more

The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

By: Paula Poundstone

Narrated by: Paula Poundstone

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed with her unique brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, in each chapter Paula tries out a... Read more

Scratched

By: Elizabeth Tallent

Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form,... Read more

It Starts with One

By: Jason Lipshutz

Narrated by: Jason Lipshutz, James Fouhey & Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators
 

Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and most important, rock bands. All it takes is one quick... Read more

You're Not Listening

By: Kate Murphy

Narrated by: Kate Murphy

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine

**This program is read by the author**

When was the last time you... Read more

I Want a Better Catastrophe

By: Andrew Boyd

Narrated by: Chris Bates

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's... Read more

Strangers Drowning

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

Narrated by: Larissa MacFarquhar

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.

A... Read more

The Confidence Game

By: Maria Konnikova

Narrated by: Maria Konnikova

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”
—Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White City

Think you can’t get conned? Think again. The New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Reclaim Your Brain

By: Joseph A. Annibali, MD

Narrated by: Joseph A. Annibali, MD & Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A prescriptive guide to restoring cognitive calm, based on Amen Clinics chief psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Annibali’s three decades of treating patients who suffer from overloaded, overstimulated brains.
 
Dr. Joseph Annibali has treated thousands of people with overloaded, overstimulated brains. Some people describe their brain as being “in chaos”;... Read more

Beyond Reason

By: Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro

Narrated by: Daniel Shapiro

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Getting to Yes, renowned educator and negotiator Roger Fisher presented a universally applicable method for effectively negotiating personal and professional disputes. Building on his work as director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher now teams with Harvard psychologist Daniel Shapiro, an expert on the emotional dimension of... Read more

Your Kids Are Your Own Fault

By: Larry Winget

Narrated by: Larry Winget

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Straight-talking, bestselling Pitbull of Parenting Larry Winget says "This is not a fix your kid book. It's a fix the way you parent book. You owe it to your kids to parent with a plan!"Being a parent is the toughest job in the world, especially with the increasing number of negative influences and pitfalls facing our kids today, from childhood... Read more

Where Good Ideas Come From

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? Read more

Lost and Found

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their... Read more

Situations Matter

By: Sam Sommers

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining and engaging" exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do. The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don't even realize it. Every day and in all walks of life, we overlook the... Read more

Everything Bad is Good for You

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly... Read more

To Sell Is Human

By: Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Business Bestseller 
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
#1 Washington Post bestseller

From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works... Read more

Women Who Love Too Much

By: Robin Norwood

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships—updated and with a new introduction

If your relationships are unhappy, unfulfilling, even ego destroying… If your yearning for love is frustrated by a partner who is more interested in work, substances, or other women than in you… If being in love means being in... Read more

The Rules of Inheritance

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.

At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against... Read more

The Genius of Dogs

By: Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect gift for dog lovers and readers of Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz—this New York Times bestseller offers mesmerizing insights into the thoughts and lives of our smartest and most beloved pets.Does your dog feel guilt? Is she pretending she can't hear you? Does she want affection—or just your sandwich? In their New York Times... Read more