Essays audiobooks

You're Better Than Me

By: Bonnie McFarlane

Narrated by: Bonnie McFarlane & Alexander Cendese

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling, Kelly Oxford, and Sarah Silverman, a compulsively readable and outrageously funny memoir of growing up as a fish out of water, finding your voice, and embracing your inner crazy-person, from popular actress, writer, and comedian Bonnie McFarlane. It took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to... Read more

Vanity Fair: March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Garner on the rebound! The actress opens up about men, Ben, and why her kids—not their nanny—are her focus.Plus:The cheating allegations rocking the Bridge worldNew England’s newest prep-school sex scandalThe battle for PicassoLondon’s Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Mapplethorpe, and more!Vanity Fair is a... Read more

Making It Up As I Go Along

By: Marian Keyes

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes™ - A bold and brilliant collection of Marian's hilarious and often heartfelt observations on modern life, love and everything in between.
From a guide to breaking up with your hairdresser to entering the fifties-zone, the joys of her nail varnish... Read more

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan.

'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.'

The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our... Read more

Adolf Hitler

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook... Read more

Peace Work

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.

'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'

The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what?... Read more

America the Beautiful

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Brandon Hirsch

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place?In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and... Read more

Vanity Fair: 2016 Hollywood Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Introducing Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue, featuring Elizabeth Banks, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy, and more!Plus:Behind the scenes of our star-studded coverFrancis Ford Coppola’s next actThe million-dollar Maltese Falcon mysteryHollywood’s next waveVanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and... Read more

The Road to Little Dribbling

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and... Read more

No Baggage

By: Clara Bensen

Narrated by: Clara Bensen

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

No Baggage is a memoir that will resonate with adventurers and homebodies alike—it’s at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for commitment or any expectations for the future?When Clara Bensen... Read more

Navel Gazing

By: Michael Ian Black

Narrated by: Michael Ian Black

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black (author of A Child’s First Book of Trump) delivers a “memorable and funny” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forties.

Black pulls no punches in this hilariously honest memoir, a follow-up to the acclaimed You’re Not Doing It Right.... Read more

Open Letter

By: Charb

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions.

On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb."

Known by his pen name, Stèphane... Read more

Vanity Fair: February 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Don’t mess with Megyn Kelly! Meet Fox News’s brightest star, skillfully skewering G.O.P. windbags, including one Donald Trump. In this Issue:Is Martin Shkreli evil or just misunderstood?Secrets of Hillary’s right-hand womanMurder mystery at the world’s top dog showA dispatch from Brussels, Paris, and a refugee campPlus: Grease, Cecily Strong,... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 20 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

When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I Read Books" Essay

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Marilynne Robinson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes... Read more

Ágilmente

By: Estanislao Bachrach

Narrated by: Estanislao Bachrach

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Estanislao Bachrach es Doctor en biología molecular y explica el funcionamiento del cerebro. A través de ello, da consejos y herramientas para ser más creativos y felices en el trabajo y en la vida.
La neurociencia es clara: el cerebro aprende hasta el último día de vida. La creatividad puede expandirse. Tu mente, mediante la aplicación ... Read more

Vanity Fair: January 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Happy Hunkidays! Get to know Chris Hemsworth, Hollywood’s state-of-the-art movie star, in Vanity Fair’s Holiday Issue cover story.In this issue:Michael Lewis revisits HollywoodJessica Alba on her “Honest” EmpireWilliam Langewiesche on modern slaveryBillionaires battling in the BahamasDispatches from Gabriel García Márquez’s Mexico City and Jan... Read more

Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with... Read more

And Yet...

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.

For more than forty years, Christopher... Read more

For Your Information: A "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat" Essay

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For Your Information: A "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" essay by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline

"Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" is s collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella--the unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team. Read more

This Old Man

By: Roger Angell

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. 

Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Angell won... Read more

The Bassoon King

By: Rainn Wilson

Narrated by: Rainn Wilson

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
 
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and... Read more

NPR Kitchen Moments: Celebrating Food

By: Linda Homles & Stephen Thompson

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

You're preparing to share the food you love with the friends and family that you love - while stories from NPR provide the inspiration. You're enjoying a Kitchen Moment.

NPR celebrates the joyful, inspiring, and downright delicious culture of food with this smorgasbord of radio stories, featuring visits with celebrity chefs and famous foodies... Read more

The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres

By: Hairy Bikers

Narrated by: Dave Myers, Hairy Bikers & Si King

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and read by the Hairy Bikers

The Hairy Bikers are known for their many best-selling cookbooks, including the HAIRY DIETERS, HAIRY BIKERS' PERFECT PIES, GREAT CURRIES and MUMS KNOW BEST, and now they are here to tell you how it all started.

Si King and Dave Myers, aka The Hairy Bikers, have lived life to the fullest. They had fantastically... Read more