Essays audiobooks

Walking with Peety

By: Eric O'Grey

Narrated by: Mark Dagostino

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"This feel-good, easy-to-read book...is sure to inspire many readers" as Eric meets Peety and their journey together saves both of their lives and creates a lifelong bond (Booklist).
Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes due to his weight, Eric went to a... Read more

English

By: Ben Fogle

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues,... Read more

I'm Fine...And Other Lies

By: Whitney Cummings

Narrated by: Whitney Cummings

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whitney Cummings has written a book about being, well, not fine—and what to do when you find yourself with brutal anxiety and a co-dependency disorder; all in her trademark wit, humor, and honesty. This book, however, is fine as hell.”—Sophia Amoruso, author of #Girlboss

“The funniest cry for help you'll read this year.”—BJ Novak

Well, well,... Read more

Rescued

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the astonishing lessons rescue dogs can teach us about life, love, and ourselves

As seen on BuzzFeed’s "Best Books Gift Guide"
 
In the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Rescue Road, acclaimed journalist Peter Zheutlin offers a heartwarming and often humorous new look into the world of rescue dogs. Sharing lessons from his own... Read more

How to Read Nature

By: Tristan Gooley

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more

The Comfort Food Diaries

By: Emily Nunn

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former New Yorker editor chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, friends and family, and home-cooked meals in this memoir “full of warm, bracing honesty…humor and paradox…and sprinkled liberally with the type of recipes that will make book club members say, ‘I could make that!’” (Booklist,... Read more

Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: David Foster Wallace & Robert Petkoff

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?

David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read more

Tales of Two Americas

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt & Corey M. Snow

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic... Read more

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing

By: Daniel Tammet

Narrated by: Daniel Tammet

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.

Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other... Read more

Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions

By: Stephen Colbert & The Staff of The Late Show wi...

Narrated by: Stephen Colbert

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he’s begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful secrets to millions (although, actually, he’d like you not to tell... Read more

Feel Good 101

By: Emma Blackery

Narrated by: Emma Blackery

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE

But it might just help you change it yourself

Only you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and a lot of real lows, excruciating heartaches and countless mistakes - to get there. The sole purpose of this book's... Read more

Cape Cod

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, Cape Cod details several short trips Thoreau made to "the bare and bended arm ofMassachusetts" between 1849 and 1855. "He went to the Cape out of curiosity," explains Paul Theroux, "but in the course of his travel a great thing happened: Thoreau, the woodsman and landlubber,... Read more

Come and Eat

By: Bri McKoy

Narrated by: Diana Batarseh

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's busy world, we all crave something deeper and truer. Whether we're seeking relationships that go beyond the surface or gatherings that allow for joy and pain, Bri McKoy reminds us that all we need is a table, open hearts, and a simple invitation: come and eat.Join Bri as she invites you to discover how a common dining room table can... Read more

Out of Line

By: Barbara Lynch

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor "Southie," a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs; develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants... Read more

Hertha BSC - Das Hörbuch (Mein Herz schlägt Blau-Weiss) (Ungekürzt)

By: Michael Jahn

Narrated by: Andreas Witte

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hertha BSC - Das Hörbuch (Mein Herz schlägt Blau-Weiss) - Eine akustische Reise durch 125 Jahre Hertha BSC-Geschichte Pünktlich zum 125. Jubiläum des Hauptstadtklubs ist endlich der richtige Zeitpunkt für ein besonderes Projekt gekommen. Mit vielen exklusiven Interviews, Reportagen, Musiktiteln und O-Tönen bietet das erste und einzige Hörbuch... Read more

Autumn

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons 28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In an 1841 essay, American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a stirring call for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and to follow their own instincts and ideas. It contains one of Emerson's most famous quotations: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by... Read more

Circles

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Circles is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay reflects on the vast array of circles one may find throughout nature, and what is suggested by these circles in philosophical terms. In the opening line of the essay Emerson states The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout... Read more

Not Quite a Genius

By: Nate Dern

Narrated by: Nate Dern

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“Highly recommended reading for those hungry for surprise” (A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author)—a rollicking collection of personal stories and essays on relationships, technology, and contemporary society from the news editor at Funny or Die and former artistic director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

This hilarious... Read more

The American Scholar

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. Emerson argues that American culture, still heavily influenced by Europe, could build a new, distinctly American cultural identity. Emerson uses Transcendentalist and Romantic points of view to explain a true American... Read more

Friendship

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Emerson's treatise on the nature of friendship. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Read more

Science in the Soul

By: Richard Dawkins

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward & Gillian Somerscales

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.

For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator,... Read more

Manners

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Manners, Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the meaning of customs and politeness in civil society. He argues that the purpose of manners is more to facilitate the creation and proper working of society, and not to establish hierarchies. Read more

Shakespeare; Or, the Poet

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Poet, an essay by U.S. writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. It is not about men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet. After reading the essay, Walt Whitman consciously... Read more