Essays audiobooks

Ethics in the Real World

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation and Practical Ethics, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World,... Read more

I'm Judging You

By: Luvvie Ajayi

Narrated by: Luvvie Ajayi

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

*Updated edition includes bonus chapter*

Winner of the 2017 Audie Award for Humor

"A truth-riot of a book!"—Shonda Rhimes

New York Times Bestseller
#1 Washington Post Bestseller
Redbook “20 Books By Women You Must Read this Fall”
GoodHousekeeping.com “17 New Best New Books to Read This Fall”
BookRiot “100 Must-Read Hilarious Books”
Goodreads Choice... Read more

Best. State. Ever.

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, "What the... Read more

Vanity Fair: August–September 2016 Issue

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave

By: Jill Kargman

Narrated by: Jill Kargman

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of Bravo’s breakout scripted comedy Odd Mom Out shares her razor-sharp wit and backhanded wisdom in a deeply observed and outrageously funny collection of musings, lists, essays, and outrages.
 
From her unique lingo (things don’t simply frighten her, they “M. Night Shyamalan her out”) to her gimlet-eyed view of narrow-mindedness, to... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Exclusive! Bruce Springsteen bares his soul and art in an astonishing new memoir.Plus…William Langewiesche on the Internet’s darkest cornersThe outrageous fortune of Sir Phillip GreenInside a Silicon Valley implosionThe secret architects of celebrity social mediaJordan Barrett, Taraji P. Henson, and more!Vanity Fair is a cultural filter,... Read more

Pets on the Couch

By: Nicholas Dodman

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The pioneering veterinarian and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dog Who Loved Too Much recounts his uniquely entertaining—and poignant—stories of treating animals for all-too-human problems as he reveals his amazing breakthroughs with the new science of One Medicine. The Oliver Sacks of animal brains, Dr. Nicholas Dodman is an... Read more

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

By: Amy Schumer

Narrated by: Amy Schumer

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year and Narration by the Author

#1 New York Times Bestseller

"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades... Read more

Seine Größten Sketche - Abridged

By: Herbert Hisel

Narrated by: Herbert Hisel

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Herbert Hisel war in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren der bekannteste fränkische Humorist. Der Nürnberger startete seine Karriere als Büttenredner und führte viele Jahre durch die Karnevalssitzungen. 1963 veröffentlichte Hisel seine erste Single "Jahrgang 22 / Der Camper" die sofort ein großer Erfolg wurde. Weitere LPs folgten in den 60er Jahren,... Read more

Sully

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow

Narrated by: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Michael McConnohie

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15,... Read more

A Brief History of Vice

By: Robert Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.

Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern... Read more

Hands of Stone

By: Christian Giudice

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The subject of the major motion picture Hands of Stone starring Ana de Armas, Ellen Barkin, Robert De Niro, and Edgar Ramirez. 

Roberto Duran is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest boxer of all time, he held world titles at four different weights and is the only boxer in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with... Read more

Vanity Fair: September 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alicia Vikander is our September Issue cover girl: winning an Oscar, falling in love with a co-star, and that's just for starters! Plus: Ingrid Sischy on the shop that defined 80s style The making of Boyz N the Hood Happy hour with French comedian Gad Elmaleh Robert Gottlieb on editing Hollywood's grandest dames The half-century long literary... Read more

The Book of Joe

By: Vincent Price

Narrated by: Victoria Price

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor Vincent Price won acclaim for his performances as a menacing villain in dozens of macabre horror films, such as House of Wax. Less well known, though, is Price's lifelong love of animals, especially his fourteen-year-old mutt, Joe. From his wife's passion for poodles to film set encounters with all types of creatures, including goats,... Read more

Housebroken

By: Laurie Notaro

Narrated by: Laurie Notaro

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess-unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune... Read more

Isn't That Rich?

By: Richard Kirshenbaum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth-of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating... Read more

Dog Medicine

By: Julie Barton

Narrated by: Julie Barton

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman’s battle with depression and how her dog saved her life

A New York Times Bestseller

“Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read.” —Cheryl Strayed 

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed.... Read more

I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are back with another audiobook collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman.

This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth... Read more

Kick

By: Paula Byrne

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.’s adored little sister, Kick, back to life.” —Vanity FairFrom celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love.
Encouraged to be “winners”... Read more

Catullus' Bedspread

By: Daisy Dunn

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of history’s greatest... Read more

E. B. White on Dogs

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

E. B. White is best known for his children’s books, such as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. A columnist for the New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of The Elements of Style, White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his One Man’s Meat columns from his saltwater farm on... Read more

Vanity Fair: August 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s the summer of Margot Robbie! Listen to how the sexy femme fatale from The Wolf of Wall Street became the new queen of blockbusters.Plus Special report: Bill Cosby horror storiesThe real reason Trump won’t release his tax returnsNancy Jo Sales on dating for dollarsThe prep-school scandal that shook three generationsPlus: Pitbull, Billie... Read more

Vanity Fair: April–June 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

The Ten (Food) Commandments

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Ten (Food) Commandments, written and read by Jay Rayner.

Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat

The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century... Read more