Career success books have a reputation for being relentlessly cheerful and vague, but the best ones are nothing like that. As audiobooks, they work especially well because you can absorb them during the exact moments they apply, commuting to the job you want to leave, walking into a difficult meeting, prepping for a negotiation.

If you liked Adam Grant’s “Give and take” (2013), which argues that generous people actually outperform everyone else, you will find this category full of ideas that genuinely challenge how you think about ambition and work.