Give Mom the Gift of Audiobooks

Do you love reading books but feel like you never have time to enjoy them? Get inspired, educated, and entertained anytime, anywhere with Audiobooks.com. In celebration of June is Audiobook Month, the staff at Audiobooks.com have handpicked their latest favorite listens.

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, narrated by Greg Sestero

As a struggling actor with a lack of confidence and funds, Greg Sestero’s luck seems to change when he meets Tommy Wiseau. Wiseau’s mysterious, and seemingly endless, supply of cash allows him to pour millions of his own money on a cinematic disaster. The hilarious, inspiring, and true story of their struggles, triumphs, and relationship make this story a must-listen.
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Find Your Extraordinary: Dream Bigger, Live Happier, and Achieve Success on Your Own Terms by Jessica Herrin, audiobooks narrated by Jessica Herrin

Take your life from ordinary to extraordinary by cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit inside you. This audiobook will inspire you to embrace your individuality, believe in yourself, and step up to creating your own definition of happiness and success.
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The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee, narrated by Josie Dunn

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by North Korea’s secretive and brutal communist regime. As the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to realize she had been brainwashed her entire life. This memoir details her incredible escape.
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi, narrated by Manoush Zomorodi

Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you’re not checking Facebook or Instagram? Learn about the connection between boredom and creativity, and explore how to harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive selves.
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach, narrated by Josh Bloomberg

A heart-wrenching yet hopeful memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Lukach’s intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family, will affirm readers’ faith in the power of love.
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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss, narrated by Brittany Pressley

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir. Piper Weiss was 14-years-old when her middle-aged tennis coach killed himself after a failed attempt to kidnap one of his teenage students. In the aftermath, authorities discovered that Gary was a child predator. But why did she still feel protective of him, and why was she disappointed that he hadn’t chosen her?
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, narrated by Dominic Hoffman

Homegoing begins with the story of two half-sisters separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Tracing the generations of family who follow as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, narrated by Ann Marie Lee

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims-a bit too strongly.
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Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Anna R. Rosling, and Ola Rosling, narrated by Richard Harries

When asked simple questions about global trends, we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess humans. Factfulness reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective of the world. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again.
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