Is there an audiobook of Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope?

Yes. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Mark Manson.

How long is the Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope audiobook?

The Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope audiobook runs 7 hr 2 min.

Is Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 16, 2026.

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Our score

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDMay 2019

Genres

Non-Fiction Philosophy Self Help

Themes

How emotion shapes belief before reasoning ever gets involvedReligion and ideology as different containers for the same psychological needWhat a functioning sense of hope actually requiresThe gap between demolishing bad ideas and building better ones

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Name: Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Price: 13.49 USD
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Author: Mark Manson

Mark Manson

Mark Manson's Everything Is F*cked argues that hope, not happiness, is the thing modern life has quietly broken, and he builds a case for that claim out of psychology, philosophy, and a running argument with his own earlier bestseller.

The Review

Our take

Mark Manson's argument in Everything Is Fcked is that we've been diagnosing the wrong disease. His first book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck, was about the tyranny of caring too much about the wrong things. This one argues the deeper problem sits underneath that: hope itself, the story we tell ourselves about why any of our caring matters, has become unstable, and a society running low on a shared story tends to go looking for extreme ones to fill the gap. That's a bigger claim than his first book made, and to his credit Manson doesn't just assert it, he spends the book building the case brick by brick.

The strongest chapters are the ones where he treats emotion as a control system rather than a feeling to manage. Drawing on research about how people rationalize decisions after the fact, he makes a genuinely useful case that we don't reason our way to our values, we feel our way there first and then build the argument backward. That single idea does a lot of load-bearing work across the rest of the book, and once you see it, his later chapters on religion, politics, and ideology read less like cultural commentary and more like case studies of the same mechanism playing out at scale.

Manson leans hard on a recurring character he calls the Formula, a private thought experiment about self-worth and control, and returns to it often enough that it starts to feel like the book's actual spine rather than a device. It's a smart structural choice for a book this discursive, since Manson ranges from Nietzsche to internet outrage to the psychology of religious conversion in the space of a few chapters, and without a recurring anchor the book could easily have felt scattered. Instead each detour eventually loops back to the same question: what does a person actually need to believe in order to keep functioning when the world stops making sense.

Where the book runs into trouble is in the back half, when Manson pivots from diagnosis to a proposed alternative built around what he calls Hope 2.0. The idea itself, that people need a felt sense of control, a feeling of community, and something bigger than themselves rather than a specific ideology, is reasonable enough, but the chapters delivering it feel thinner than the ones critiquing existing belief systems. He's a sharper demolition man than architect, and the book's final third reads like someone building the replacement structure faster than the blueprint really supports.

The prose carries the whole thing regardless of that wobble. Manson writes with the same profane, conversational voice that made his first book a hit, but he uses it here for actual argument rather than aphorism, dropping a crude joke right before or after a genuinely careful distinction, which keeps two-hundred-plus pages of psychology and philosophy from ever turning into a lecture. It's a deliberately loose, almost stand-up-comic rhythm, and it works because he never lets the humor undercut the seriousness of what he's actually claiming.

Read against his first book, this one is the more ambitious project and the more uneven one. The Subtle Art had a tight, singular thesis and stuck to it. Everything Is F*cked reaches for something closer to a theory of how entire civilizations sustain belief, and it doesn't fully land that reach, but the attempt is worth the read on its own. You come out of it with a genuinely different way of asking why people believe what they believe, which is more than most books in this shelf manage to hand you.

Why you should read

Readers of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck ready for a bigger argument
Anyone interested in why ideology and religion function similarly psychologically
Fans of pop-philosophy that argues from research rather than just anecdote
Readers who like profane, conversational nonfiction over academic prose

What to expect

A recurring thought experiment that anchors a wide-ranging argument
Sharper diagnosis of the problem than solutions in the back half
Profane, casual humor deployed around genuinely careful distinctions
Detours through Nietzsche, religion, and internet culture that circle back to one idea

By the time Manson gets to his closing argument about what a healthy relationship with hope actually requires, the book has already made its real case several chapters earlier, in the sections about how belief gets built rather than chosen. That's the part worth rereading.

Reviewed by Ellis · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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Is there an audiobook of Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope?: Yes. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Mark Manson.
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How long is the Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope audiobook?: The Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope audiobook runs 7 hr 2 min.
Is Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 16, 2026.
How much does Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $13.49, Paperback $11.73, Hardcover $12.67. Prices as of August 21, 2026 at 3:47 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope about?: Mark Manson's argument in Everything Is Fcked is that we've been diagnosing the wrong disease. His first book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck, was about the tyranny of caring too much about the wrong things. This one argues the deeper problem sits underneath that: hope itself, the story we…
Is Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope worth reading?: We scored Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope 4.5 out of 5. Mark Manson's Everything Is F*cked argues that hope, not happiness, is the thing modern life has quietly broken, and he builds a case for that claim out of psychology, philosophy, and a running argument with his own earlier bestseller.