Essays audiobooks

Little Victories

By: Jason Gay

Narrated by: Jason Gay

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

“The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read. It will not make you rich in twenty-four hours, or even... Read more

We Are All Stardust

By: Stefan Klein

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading & Se...

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein—shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discoverWhen acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize–winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, “First and foremost,... Read more

Money Pizza Respect

By: The Fat Jew

Narrated by: The Fat Jew

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the hugely popular @thefatjewish Instagram comes an outlandish collection of hilarious personal essays and images, which might be the most ridiculous book in the history of arts and letters.

If Steven Seagal and Barbara Streisand had drunken sex and conceived a baby boy, he would have show business chops and be proficient in... Read more

The Time of Our Lives

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman, Rena-Marie Villano & Peggy...

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her... Read more

My Misspent Youth

By: Meghan Daum

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

The Givenness of Things

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
One of TIME magazine's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies... Read more

Wildflower

By: Drew Barrymore

Narrated by: Drew Barrymore

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.
 
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on... Read more

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

The Penguin Lessons

By: Tom Michell

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique and moving real-life story of the extraordinary bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz.

In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant... Read more

How to Be Right

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not enough to be right, these days—especially when you're not left.
 
To survive, the right must learn how to express nonliberal principles as effectively as possible, and persuade others of their point of view. It is an art that demands patience, research, humor, understanding, creative thinking, learning from your opponent and even... Read more

Binge

By: Tyler Oakley

Narrated by: Tyler Oakley

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge, his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays.

For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to... Read more

Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat

By: Jen Mann

Narrated by: Jen Mann

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece.

When it comes to time-honored holiday traditions, Jen Mann pulls no punches

In this hilariously irreverent collection of essays, Jen Mann, nationally bestselling author of People I Want to... Read more

Land of the Midnight Sun

By: Alexander Armstrong

Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong heads north in to an ever more hostile Arctic winter to explore the farthest reaches of the globe. In an epic journey, he navigates some of the Earth’s toughest terrain, first travelling through the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, then on to the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, as... Read more

Got to Give the People What They Want

By: Jalen Rose

Narrated by: Jalen Rose

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments.” – From the Introduction
 
One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story.
 
Jalen Rose has never been quiet.  Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s.  Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary... Read more

A House of My Own

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.

From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a... Read more

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz

By: W. C. Heinz

Narrated by: Bill Littlefield

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer of the long-form sports story, W. C. Heinz wrote with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Here is a first of its kind audio edition of some of his finest work, selected and read by Bill Littlefield (NPR's "Only a Game"), including “Brownsville Bum”—“the greatest magazine sports... Read more

What to Think About Machines That Think

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Brett Barry & Lisa Larsen

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in... Read more

Vanity Fair: November 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our November cover story on Rihanna.In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue Rihanna opens up about music, sex, and Chris Brown Inside Kelly Rutherford’s custody nightmare Michael Lewis on Tom Wolfe Why some chefs don’t want a Michelin star Plus: Patti Smith,... Read more

Rescue Road

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Greg Mahle struggled to keep the last of his family-run restaurants afloat in Ohio. When it finally closed, he was broke and unsure what to do next. Then a stranded van-load of puppies changed his life forever.


Join journalist Peter Zheutlin as he travels with Greg from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring hard-luck... Read more

My Kitchen Year

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men’s Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Publishers Weekly

In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent company. No one was more stunned by this unexpected turn of events than its beloved... Read more

Cold Harbor to the Crater

By: Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland Campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although... Read more

Yes, My Accent Is Real

By: Kunal Nayyar

Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory.

Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory—the sincere... Read more

Why Not Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, Greg Daniels & B. J. Novak

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.

“This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today

In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares... Read more