Essays audiobooks

Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most... Read more

The Mother of All Questions

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.



In her characteristic style, Solnit mixes... Read more

Give a Girl a Knife

By: Amy Thielen

Narrated by: Amy Thielen

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman’s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining—and back again—in search of her culinary roots
 
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel... Read more

Boogers Are My Beat

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:• The scientific search for the world’s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word "weasel")
• RV camping in the Wal-Mart... Read more

Peace Kills

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who “never fails to find the absurd” addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War (The New York Times Book Review).To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O’Rourke first visits Kosovo. (“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the... Read more

The CEO of the Sofa

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as "the funniest writer in America" (The Wall Street Journal). Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times-bestselling humorist. Over the course of the year, in... Read more

Rising Star

By: David Garrow

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 56 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national... Read more

Aliens

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee M...

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (artificial intelligence);... Read more

That’s Your Lot

By: Limmy

Narrated by: Limmy

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Limmy’s second book. It’s a whole load of new, odd, and hilariously grim short stories. Tom is in a soft play with his daughters. He’s bored. He’s so bored he can move things with his mind. A man fills up a mate’s biscuit tin without ever telling him, to see what happens. Maggie’s... Read more

All Over the Place

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos.

Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her.

Hilarious,... Read more

We Stood Upon Stars

By: Roger W. Thompson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Get lost... and find what really matters

You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river — even in that... Read more

Talking to Animals

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.

In Talking to Animals,... Read more

Between Them

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a... Read more

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By: Scaachi Koul

Narrated by: Scaachi Koul

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Certain authors are their own best narrators...Here, Koul's accomplished reading comes with the bonus of regular vocal interjections from her father." — Library Journal

A debut collection of fierce, funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Western culture, addressing sexism, stereotypes, and the universal miseries of... Read more

Kitty Cornered

By: Bob Tarte

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named... Read more

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It

By: Jess Kimball Leslie

Narrated by: Jess Kimball Leslie

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book!"
-- Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens LiveI

Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in it is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives.

Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and... Read more

Lessons from the Prairie

By: Melissa Francis

Narrated by: Melissa Francis

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." -- Megyn Kelly

For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book by Melissa Francis, bestselling author of Diary of a Stage... Read more

Make Someone Happy

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be... Read more

How to Be Married

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Jo Piazza

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more

The Phenomenon

By: Rick Ankiel

Narrated by: Rick Ankiel

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.

The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch -- not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning,... Read more

Secrets of a Pet Nanny

By: Eileen Riley

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At aged twenty-eight, Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life; her globe-trotting career as a diplomat took her from the corridors of power at the White House to postings in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, and finally, London—where she decided to give it all up to become a professional dog-sitter. But her diplomatic skills were to prove... Read more

At Home in the World

By: Tsh Oxenreider

Narrated by: Tsh Oxenreider

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.The wide world is calling.Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade.... Read more

An American Lawyer in London

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious book, a New York Times bestselling author breaks down the real and ridiculous differences between American lawyers and British barristers.

Originally published in Sunday Times in London, after the magazine asked Brad to compare American Lawyers with British barristers. Wig-a-riffic! Read more

How I Spent My Summer Vacation with the Judas Contract

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What one reviewer called "my near-sexual fascination" with a comic book character. Originally published in Give Our Regards to the Atom-Smashers! Read more