Essays audiobooks

Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to, Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?

From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of... Read more

Vanity Fair: August 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity 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... Read more

I Left My Tent in San Francisco

By: Emma Kennedy

Narrated by: Emma Kennedy

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.

Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness... Read more

The Tent, the Bucket and Me

By: Emma Kennedy

Narrated by: Emma Kennedy

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the 70s child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves.

For Emma... Read more

The Seven Good Years

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Alex Karpovsky

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (TheNew York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father... Read more

The Goshawk

By: T. H. White

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular... Read more

Happily Ali After

By: Ali Wentworth

Narrated by: Ali Wentworth

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wentworth spins hilarious tales of parenting, relationships and, yes, getting older.” — PeopleThe actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by... Read more

Intimacy Idiot

By: Isaac Oliver

Narrated by: Isaac Oliver

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning playwright “who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David” (New York magazine)—a “compulsively readable debut” (Time Out New York) of big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can’t-breathe essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City.

Since moving to New York a decade ago, award-winning... Read more

Context

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From... Read more

Letters to My Grandchildren

By: David Suzuki

Narrated by: David Suzuki

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren — and us — to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, and failure are important; why it is... 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

Vanity Fair: July 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity 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... Read more

Daddy, Stop Talking! - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did—without iPads, 70-inch flatscreen TVs,... Read more

Afloat & Afoot

By: John Burroughs

Narrated by: Brett Barry & Rolland G. Smith

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Afloat & Afoot is a celebration of John Burroughs, a Catskills native famous for his writings on the natural world that surrounds us all. This first-ever audio edition of his work includes two of the writer’s most entertaining and compelling essays: “Pepacton: A Summer Voyage” and “The Heart of the Southern Catskills.”  “Pepacton” recounts... Read more

How to F*ck a Woman

By: Ali Adler

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Brazen, uproarious, slyly prescriptive, and always entertaining, Ali Adler is a sex and relationship guru who knows what women want. As a lesbian, she has both the equipment and the experience to give straight men (and the women who love them) advice about how to get more sex and do it well.In her day job as a comedy writer and TV producer, Ali... Read more

Essays After Eighty

By: Donald Hall

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight.



Hall paints his past: "Decades followed each other—thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed... Read more

Fat Girl Walking

By: Brittany Gibbons

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women,... Read more

Dogfella

By: James Guiliani

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James "Head" Guiliani, a confidante of the Gotti regime, was arrested and jailed on a weapons charge. After his release, he fell back into alcohol and drug addiction—until, one day, he came across an abandoned, abused shih tzu in the street. He rescued the dog, whom he lovingly named Bruno, and, in the process, turned his own life... 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

Benchwarmer

By: Josh Wilker

Narrated by: Chris Lutkin

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival pages of sports almanacs and stat sheets: a... 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

Curiosity

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading was an international bestseller translated into thirty-four languages and for which Manguel earned the MEdicis Prize. Fourteen years later, Manguel anchors his new book in the primal connection between reading and curiosity. Tracing twenty-five centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the... Read more

My Paris Dream

By: Kate Betts

Narrated by: Kate Betts

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style

“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”

As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a... Read more

Dead White Guys

By: Matt Burriesci

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Matt Burriesci set out to write a book about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid... Read more