Art audiobooks

Richard Jeni: Platypus Man

By: Richard Jeni

Narrated by: Richard Jeni

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Jeni takes the Windy City on a non-stop joyride through American Culture. He cracks into everything from lobsters to love songs in this hour long live performance. Read more

Richard Jeni's Greatest Bits

By: Richard Jeni

Narrated by: Richard Jeni

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The late Richard Jeni brings you one of the funniest albums you'll hear, it gets better and better every time you listen to it. It's insightful and intelligent, with fresh and surprising observations about everyday life. Read more

The Best of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! More Famous People Play "Not My Job"

By: author

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, plays a game called, “I can feel it coming in the air tonight,” in which he responds to questions about musician Phil Collins. Al Gore tries to match his former boss’ mastery of the My Little Pony children’s show in a game called “Maybe you can beat Bill Clinton at this.” Olympian Jackie... Read more

Richard Jeni: The Beach Crowd

By: Richard Jeni

Narrated by: Richard Jeni

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled from Richard Jeni's personal archives, almost all 75 minutes of The Beach Crowd have never been seen outside of the comic's extraordinary live performances. Captured during two weekend performances in 2002 and 2006 at Southern California's famed Comedy & Magic Club, it's full of Richard's trademark quick-change personas, bits on... Read more

Richard Jeni: Roll With it

By: Richard Jeni

Narrated by: Richard Jeni

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Roll with It is a 58 minute set of previously unreleased material compiled from the late comedian Richard Jeni's personal recordings of his performances at casinos across the nation during 2003-2005. Rich's casino shows were popular with fans for the hilarious gambling bits and the somewhat "bluer" material--and Roll with It captures it all. Read more

I Wish I Was Bitter

By: Andy Kindler

Narrated by: Andy Kindler

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With good natured rage, comedian and professional troublemaker Andy Kindler ridicules popular culture, show business, and himself in this intimate stand-up comedy performance. Read more

Politics and Performance

By: Megan Lewis

Narrated by: Megan Lewis

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For most theatregoers today, Realism is the standard. We are accustomed to seeing characters on stage who walk, talk, and sound just like real people. Everyday speech is commonplace in theatrical scripts, as are stage sets that look and feel and smell like real places - complete with running water and electric lights that work exactly as if we... Read more

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: Orson Welles & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman, who is best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the The Paper Chase. After a series of acclaimed stage productions, Welles and his Mercury Theatre were offered their own... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Comedy Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest comedy shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos 'n' Andy, Robert Young in Father Knows Best, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, William Bendix as... Read more

Tales of a Tiller Girl

By: Irene Holland

Narrated by: Kate Lee

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life. This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was... Read more

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.

In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

Igniting And Sustaining Your Genius

By: Michael Gelb, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gelb suggests that we can tap into the lively energy we enjoyed as a child by raising our qi or vital energy. He shares some simple practices that can immediately turn our low energy into exuberance and suggests several ways to enhance our creativity, such as the use of mind maps and knowing the difference between a fixed mindset and a creative... Read more

Paris Letters

By: Janice MacLeod

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this question to herself as she doodles on a notepad at her desk. Surprisingly, the answer isn't as daunting as she expected. With a little math and a lot of determination, Janice cuts back, saves up, and buys herself two years of freedom in... Read more

Veteran graffiti artist RISK on his evolving art form

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist RISK has made the world his canvas, creating colorful murals on everything from highway overpasses—known ..." Read more

All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Carolyn Pickles, Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donn...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.

First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.

At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul... Read more

The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats

By: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game.

Never before has the... Read more

Enchanted Objects

By: David Rose

Narrated by: Corey Brill

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future” (The Wall Street Journal).

We are now standing at the precipice of the next... Read more

The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats

By: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Narrated by: Pete Larkin, Nick Omana, Mark Comstock & Dale E...

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game.

Never before has the... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos and Andy, Howard Duff as Detective Sam Spade, Tom Conway as the immortal Sherlock Holmes, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, Willard Waterman as the Great Gildersleeve,... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Howard Duff & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dashiell Hammett created the character Sam Spade for his crime story The Maltese Falcon. Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and an unflinching determination to exact his own justice. For most people, Spade is most closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played him in the third and most... Read more

A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua & Pedro Pablo Sacristán

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, William Melillo,...

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

In A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection, award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents …Hard-Boiled Joe Bev: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 1An hour of film noir parodies, includingThe Mysterious Thief of ThievesThe SafeThe Japanese SandmanThe Mystery of the Missing CoinThe Camp Kilmer CaseJoe Bev at Sea: A Joe Bev... Read more

Laffmobb's We Got Next, Vol. 8

By: BT Kingsley, Eddie Bryant, Jay Lamont & Pretty ...

Narrated by: BT Kingsley, Eddie Bryant, Jay Lamont & Pretty ...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A new comedy series that delivers a next generation twist on stand-up. An entertaining hour where reality meets stand-up comedy via performances and profiles of the next generation of great African American comics. We Got Next takes you into the talent scout lab of Bob Sumner (Founder/Producer/Lead Talent Scout of Def Comedy Jam series with... Read more

Maybe I Don't Feel Like Smiling

By: Kris Tinkle

Narrated by: Kris Tinkle

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Kris Tinkle has been making his mark on the New York City stand up scene since he moved there from his native San Francisco. He was the co-host and resident comedian on Comedy By Request on SiriusXM Raw Dog. He has appeared on DirecTV’s The Artie Lange Show, is a regular on SiriusXM Radio’s “Friday’s with Breuer” and “Tap Out Radio,”... Read more