Sports & Recreation audiobooks

A Survival Guide for Life

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Tom Patrick Stephens

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the world-famous survival expert, learn how to make every day an unforgettable adventureLife in the outdoors teaches us invaluable lessons. Encountering the wild forces us to plan and execute goals, face danger, push our "limits," and sharpen our instincts. But our most important adventures don't always happen in nature's extremes. Living a... Read more

Kelly Holmes In Her Own Words

By: Kelly Holmes

Narrated by: Kelly Holmes

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Dame Kelly Holmes won two gold medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in the 800 and 1500 metres. In this collection we hear - in her own words - about her determination and goals, as well as her difficult childhood.

She talks about starting athletics when she was 13, driving lorries in the army and becoming an army fitness instructor. She discusses... Read more

Hanging in There

By: Jon R. Chambers

Narrated by: Ollie Gallant

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Red Bull X-Alps is the world's most extreme race. With only a paraglider and a pair of hiking boots athletes attempt to cross the Alps from Salzburg in Austria to Monaco. In this book, British athlete Jon Chambers brings you even closer to the action and reveals his personal story of his 2011 race. In doing so he reveals the harsh reality of... Read more

Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies

By: Chris Kluwe

Narrated by: Chris Kluwe

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hi. In your hands, right now, you hold the culmination of thousands of years of human intelligence, ingenuity, and brilliance. Now put your goddamn phone down and pay attention to my book.

What is in my book, you ask? (I'm really glad you asked, by the way, because now I get to tell you.)

Time travel. Gay marriage. Sportsballing. Futuristic... Read more

Doc

By: Dwight Gooden & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time.With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off of it,... Read more

Loudmouth

By: Craig Carton

Narrated by: Craig Carton

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of radio's former loudest, orneriest, most beloved, and highest-rated sports radio personalities, a bold and hilarious memoir of sports, manhood, and what it is to be a fan.

In 1991, fresh from college, Craig Carton drove a crappy 1980 Buick to Buffalo, New York, to interview for a job at WGR radio. The station manager who hired him was... Read more

The Majors - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and "inside the ropes", as... Read more

Winning Ugly

By: Brad Gilbert & Steve Jamison

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

He's been called the best in the world at the mental game of tennis. Brad Gilbert's strokes may not be pretty, but looks aren't everything. He has beaten the Tour's biggest names—all by playing his "ugly" game.

Now, in Winning Ugly, Gilbert teaches recreational players how to win more often without necessarily even changing their strokes. The key... Read more

Yoga Workshop

By: Trish Munro

Narrated by: Trish Munro

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Popular yoga expert and owner of the Yoga Factory, Trish Munro presents an innovative yoga workshop that introduces beginners to yoga through simple exercises, as well as offering more advanced exercises and guided meditations for more experienced practitioners. This audiobook features music by Llewellyn. Read more

The Hike

By: Don Shaw

Narrated by: Terry Molloy

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.

Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and... Read more

On the Road Bike

By: Ned Boulting

Narrated by: Ned Boulting

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Ned Boulting has noticed something. It's to do with bikes. They're everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly is 'this'.

In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so... Read more

C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race

By: Geoff Williams

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International
Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including
twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to
win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's
farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't
let... Read more

Eleven Rings

By: Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty

Narrated by: Matt Walton

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the “Zen master” half in jest by... Read more

The Outsider

By: Jimmy Connors

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He... Read more

Southern League

By: Larry Colton

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter... Read more

Love With a Chance of Drowning

By: Torre DeRoche

Narrated by: Candice Moll

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage... Read more

Mickey and Willie

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Allen Barra is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine and a widely acclaimed sportswriter. In Mickey and Willie, Barra reveals the surprising commonalities of two of the most heralded baseball players of the 20th century. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays had vastly different backgrounds. But when it came to baseball, they possessed... Read more

The Double-Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea ceremony. This second volume, with all new original material, promises to be even more of a daring adventure than the first. Girls... Read more

Happy, Happy, Happy

By: Phil Robertson

Narrated by: Alan Robertson & Phil Robertson

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.

It isn’t often that a person can live a dream, but Phil Robertson—better known as the Duck Commander—has proven that it is possible with vision,... Read more

Breaking Through My Limits

By: Alexandra Orlando

Narrated by: Gildan Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete
who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic
gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. Despite injury, she competed
at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and retired from the sport at the age
of twenty-one as one of the top ten gymnasts in the world.



Her incredible story... Read more

Lessons from Everest

By: Dr. Tim Warren

Narrated by: Dr. Tim Warren

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking alone for three days down the Khumbu Valley of Nepal to heal his damaged lung tissue in the luxury of oxygen-rich lower altitude. He felt an overpowering... Read more

The Way of the Fight

By: Georges St-Pierre

Narrated by: Eric Stone

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s more to winning battles than fists and feetFor world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free... Read more

Through My Eyes

By: Tim Tebow

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top... Read more

Jumpstart to Skinny - Abridged

By: Bob Harper & Greg Critser

Narrated by: Bob Harper

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!

In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a reunion, wedding, beach vacation, or other special occasion—and... Read more