Self-Improvement audiobooks

The Anxious Generation

By: Jonathan Haidt

Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Jonathan Haidt

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 • A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 • A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, the New York Post, and Town & Country • The Goodreads Choice Award Nonfiction... Read more

Unmasking for Life

By: Devon Price, PhD

Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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

Atomic Habits

By: James Clear

Narrated by: James Clear

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Next Conversation

By: Jefferson Fisher

Narrated by: Jefferson Fisher

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything

No matter who you’re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate. Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer and one of the leading voices... Read more

Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This program is read by the author.

"Burkeman and his irresistible British accent shifted my paradigm a couple centimeters . . . 'The day will never arrive when you have everything under control,' he calmly whispered in my ear, and I think I believed him." - Vulture

"The philosophical tone of his delivery is... Read more

Burnout

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead

“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle
 
This... Read more

Love in a F*cked-Up World

By: Dean Spade

Narrated by: Dean Spade

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections.

Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and... Read more

How to Keep House While Drowning

By: KC Davis

Narrated by: KC Davis & Dr. Raquel Martin

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2022
USA TODAY Bestseller

This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home.

If you’re struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. For therapist KC Davis, the birth... Read more

Wintering

By: Katherine May

Narrated by: Rebecca Lee

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being

“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert  

"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving... Read more

How to Know a Person

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: David Brooks

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

“More than a guide to better conversations, it’s a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of... Read more

Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey

Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

Supercommunicators

By: Charles Duhigg

Narrated by: Charles Duhigg

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life

“A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant,... Read more

Outlive

By: Peter Attia, MD

Narrated by: Peter Attia, MD

Length: 17 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert
 
“One of the most important books you’ll ever... Read more

Untamed

By: Glennon Doyle

Narrated by: Glennon Doyle

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)

In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace... Read more

Cults Like Us

By: Jane Borden

Narrated by: Jane Borden

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Meditations for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman

Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"The philosophical tone of his delivery is perfect." —AudioFile on Four Thousand Weeks

This program is read by the author.

A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life—a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be—from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand... Read more

The Light We Carry

By: Michelle Obama

Narrated by: Michelle Obama

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
 
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big... Read more

Rest Is Resistance

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

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 Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley

“Unexpected and spectacular” —Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days

"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more

Laziness Does Not Exist

By: Devon Price

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Free

By: Amanda Knox

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

By: Mark Manson

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller • More than 10 million Copies SoldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be ""positive"" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich... Read more

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 25th Anniversary

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell & Henry O. Arnold

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, hear the bestselling leadership book of all time, read in its entirety by John Maxwell himself!HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary... Read more

Calling In

By: Loretta J Ross

Narrated by: Loretta J Ross

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.

In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s... Read more