Self-Improvement audiobooks

Get It Done

By: Ayelet Fishbach

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a "compelling" and revelatory framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mindset), from a psychologist on the cutting edge of motivational science.

A great deal of ink has been spilled on the subject of motivating and influencing others, but what happens when the person you most want to influence is you?... Read more

Widen the Window

By: Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD

Narrated by: Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD & Fred Sanders

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"I don't think I've ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it is like to live with the legacy of trauma as this book does, while offering a comprehensive approach to healing."
--from the foreword by Bessel van der Kolk

A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the... Read more

The Upward Spiral

By: Alex Korb, PhD.

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Based in the latest research in neuroscience, this audiobook offers dozens of little things you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.Depression doesn’t happen all at once. It... Read more

Blood, Bones & Butter

By: Gabrielle Hamilton

Narrated by: Gabrielle Hamilton

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • National Post • The Toronto Star • BookPage • Bookreporter

“I wanted the lettuce and... Read more

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

By: Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s holding you back? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw–a behavior you barely even recognize–is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be.

Who can help? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at... Read more

Sisterhood Heals

By: Joy Harden Bradford, PhD

Narrated by: Joy Harden Bradford, PhD

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the licensed clinical psychologist behind the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls comes “a roadmap for personal growth and improved connections with others, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling and joyful life” (Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free)

“Inspiring, wise,... Read more

The Fun Habit

By: Mike Rucker

Narrated by: Mike Rucker

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life with “this well-researched and impressive guide” (BookPage).

Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?

There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can... Read more

Faith After Doubt

By: Brian D. McLaren

Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Brian D. McLaren

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith.

"Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle

Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every... Read more

Hello, Higher Self

By: Bunny Michael

Narrated by: Bunny Michael

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Yung Pueblo and Nicole LePera, this inclusive guide to radical self-love provides a path to joy and acceptance, from podcast host and artist Bunny Michael

Insecurities, inadequacies, self-doubt; we all have them, and never more so than in this age of media saturation and technical voyeurism. Enter Bunny Michael, an interdisciplinary... Read more

Between Us

By: Batja Mesquita

Narrated by: Mikhaila Aaseng

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together.“How are you feeling today?” We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in... Read more

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

By: Rheeda Walker & Na'im Akbar

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis—and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can’t deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic illness, suffer from poverty, under-education, and... Read more

The Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now featuring a new introduction by Dr. M. Scott Peck, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic bestseller The Road Less Traveled, celebrated by The Washington Post as “not just a book but a spontaneous act of generosity.”

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The... Read more

Climate

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
 
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change... Read more

The Resilience Plan

By: Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Narrated by: Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Resilience is not a given. You need a strategy.

Leaders and business professionals handle grueling hours and exceed high expectations. They are undaunted by challenges and embrace opportunities for growth. They assume they are resilient.

But given enough demands, anyone can burn out. This makes logical sense, yet you likely still think it could... Read more

Real Self-Care

By: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Narrated by: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian

NPR's "Books We Love for 2023"

Forbes' "Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time"

"Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle

"This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a... Read more

Finish

By: Jon Acuff

Narrated by: Jon Acuff

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, “I’ve never had a problem starting. I’ve started a million things, but I never finish them. Why can’t I finish?

According to studies, 92 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. You’ve practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing... Read more

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)

By: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy

Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy...

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and... Read more

The Warrior Poet Way

By: John Lovell

Narrated by: John Lovell & Rebekah Lovell

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

From the founder of the Warrior Poet Society, a daring manual on how to become a dangerous—and good—man

There is a war on masculinity, and everywhere we look—on every front we hold sacred—we can see the painful reminders of this collapsing order. The chaos and crisis we are experiencing today should be a... Read more

Heart Breath Mind

By: Leah Lagos

Narrated by: Leah Lagos

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Stress is not in your head, it’s in your body—this is the key to peak performance that Leah Lagos, PsyD, BCB, an internationally known expert in biofeedback and sport and performance psychology, wants us to know. In this book, she shares with readers for the first time the same program that she uses with top athletes, CEOs, business... Read more

Evolve Your Brain

By: Joe Dispenza, DC

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Dispenza, DC, has spent decades studying the human mind—how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolves—by learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos,... Read more

How We Learn to Be Brave

By: Mariann Edgar Budde

Narrated by: Mariann Edgar Budde

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.

The decisive moments in life are those pivot points when we’re called on to push past our fears and act with strength. With... Read more

Own Your Past Change Your Future

By: Dr. John Delony

Narrated by: Dr. John Delony

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Get on the path to being well.We’re the most technologically advanced society in history, but we’ve never been more stressed, medicated, or lonely. We have 1,000 Facebook friends but no one to help us move our couch. The pace of life is making us exhausted.
We’re all carrying the weight of our trauma based on the stories we were told by others... Read more

Happy Money

By: Ken Honda

Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Ken Honda—Japan’s #1 bestselling personal development guru—teaches you how to achieve peace of mind when it comes to money with this instant national bestseller.

Too often, money is a source of fear, stress, and anger, often breaking apart relationships and even ruining lives. We like to think money is just a number or a piece of paper, but it... Read more

Sorry Not Sorry

By: Naya Rivera

Narrated by: Naya Rivera

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over—or plod through—all the crap along the way. After her... Read more