Essays audiobooks

Ham: Slices of a Life

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Sam Harris

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In a collection of personal essays that are “both rip-roaringly funny and sentimental, drawing natural (and justified) comparisons to David Sedaris and David Rakoff” (Esquire), longtime recording artist and actor Sam Harris recounts stories of friendship, love, celebrity, and growing up and getting sober.

In sixteen brilliantly observed true... Read more

Roseannearchy

By: Roseanne Barr

Narrated by: Roseanne Barr

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection of hilarious and provocative essays by New York Times bestselling author and television pioneer Roseanne Barr as she takes on world leaders, militant feminists, and even Satan.

From the Hollywood hot seat to her Hawaiian macadamia nut farm, bestselling author and television star Roseanne Barr isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty!

As... Read more

Good Dog. Stay.

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed."

So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by... Read more

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

By: Mike Stangle & Dave Stangle

Narrated by: Dave Stangle & Mike Stangle

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX

Two reckless but lovable all-American bros make a strong case for maturing slowly through their outrageous yet enlightening misadventures across this great country of ours.

My brother and I are looking for wedding dates for our cousin’s wedding.

We’ve been told by the bride that bringing... Read more

Faithful

By: Stewart O'Nan & Stephen King

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Adam Grupper

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be—well, faithful, come hell or high water” (The Boston Globe).

“Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory,... Read more

I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV

By: Maz Jobrani

Narrated by: Maz Jobrani

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A funny, insightful memoir” (Kirkus Reviews) about growing up Iranian in America, and the quest to make it as an actor in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb, or get kicked in the face by Chuck Norris.

After he emigrated with his family to the US during the Iranian Revolution, Maz Jobrani spent most of his youth trying to fit... Read more

My Life as an Experiment

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.

One man. Ten extraordinary quests.

Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes... Read more

Bird Cloud

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the... Read more

In Real Life

By: Joey Graceffa

Narrated by: Joey Graceffa

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A confessional, uplifting memoir from beloved YouTube personality, Joey Graceffa.

It’s not where you begin that matters. It's where you end up.

Twenty-three-year-old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspirational YouTube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes and... Read more

I, Justine

By: Justine Ezarik

Narrated by: Justine Ezarik

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A one-woman media phenomenon and a leading YouTube influencer takes readers behind the camera, and deep inside her world.

Justine Ezarik has been tech-obsessed since unboxing her family’s first Apple computer. By sixth grade she had built her first website. A decade later, she became one of the Internet’s first—and most... Read more

I Hate Myselfie

By: Shane Dawson

Narrated by: Shane Dawson

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller ● Publishers Weekly Bestseller ● Los Angeles Times Bestseller ● Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A brilliant, hilarious, and honest essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author and YouTube sensation Shane Dawson about how messy life can get when you’re growing up but how rewarding it can feel when the... Read more

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

By: Chelsea Handler

Narrated by: Chelsea Handler

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Chelsea Handler's world—a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.

When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend... Read more

Grace's Guide

By: Grace Helbig

Narrated by: Grace Helbig

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.

Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for... Read more

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more

But Enough About You

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wide-ranging collection of essays with “distinctive wordplay and quirky opinions…Christopher Buckley is good company whether you’re looking for two quick pages and a smile, or want to linger” (The New York Times Book Review).

Christopher Buckley, like his terrific volume But Enough About You, contains multitudes. Tackling... Read more

I Wear the Black Hat

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine).

Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the... Read more

The Dangerous Animals Club

By: Stephen Tobolowsky

Narrated by: Stephen Tobolowsky

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, comes a collection of memoiristic pieces about life, love, acting, and adventure, told with a beguiling voice and an uncommon talent for storytelling.

The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky is a series of stories that form a non-linear autobiography. Each story stands on its own, and... Read more

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

By: Patton Oswalt

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratatouille) and television (The King of Queens and The United States of Tara), but also beloved for his ascerbic, highly eloquent, and wildly funny... Read more

Eating the Dinosaur

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, returns to the form in which he’s been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.

Q: What is this book about?

A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve... Read more

Eat More Better

By: Dan Pashman

Narrated by: Dan Pashman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could make everything you eat more delicious?

As creator of the WNYC podcast The Sporkful and host of the Cooking Channel web series You're Eating It Wrong, Dan Pashman is obsessed with doing just that. Eat More Better weaves science and humor into a definitive, illustrated guidebook for anyone who loves food. But this book isn’t for... Read more

Barack Like Me

By: David Alan Grier

Narrated by: David Alan Grier

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier.

Within these pages,... Read more

Paddle Your Own Canoe

By: Nick Offerman

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson?  Combining... Read more

Diary of a Mad Diva

By: Joan Rivers

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album

Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified—who the hell does Melissa think she is? That... Read more

A Russian Journal

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare... Read more