Essays audiobooks

The Unspeakable

By: Meghan Daum

Narrated by: Meghan Daum

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a report tempered by hard times. In 'Matricide,' Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in 'Diary of a Coma' she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the... 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

Citizens of the Green Room

By: Mark Leibovich

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,” Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about... Read more

The David Foster Wallace Reader

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Fos...

Length: 48 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here -- with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work -- essays like... Read more

Life, Love and The Archers

By: Wendy Cope

Narrated by: Wendy Cope

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'IS IT ANY WONDER THAT SO MANY OF US LOVE HER?' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday
Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted... Read more

Revolution

By: Russell Brand

Narrated by: Russell Brand

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
 
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 58 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

Lettres de Marcel Proust

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Guillaume Gallienne

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcel Proust fut un correspondant maniaque. Dès l'enfance, puis dans le monde, jusqu'à sa mort, sans trêve il a écrit : à ses proches, à ses amis, aux lecteurs de ses livres, à ses éditeurs, ses banquiers... Les milliers de lettres qu'il a écrites traitent des sujets les plus variés : souvenirs, confidences intimes, politique, impressions de... Read more

Brief Encounters

By: Dick Cavett

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2016 Grammy nominee for Best Spoken Word Album

Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life

In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James... Read more

Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Jim Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator. 

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend... 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

Nepomuken, die auf die Brücken spucken - Abridged

By: Michael Frank

Narrated by: Martin Schwab

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In der Interpretation des Burgschauspielers Martin Schwab fügen sich Michael Franks Prager Hintergedanken zu einem kundigen Porträt der tschechischen Hauptstadt. Abseits aller gängigen Mythen und ausgetretenen Pfade nähert sich der langjährige Korrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" vor kulturgeschlichtlichem und politischem Hintergrund dem... 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

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

By: Neil Patrick Harris

Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of NEIL PATRICK HARRIS’S CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you’ll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don’t have to make any decisions or jump around—just kick back, relax... Read more

Coach

By: Andrew Blauner

Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth, Brian Troxell, Marianne Fraul...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five celebrated writers share the inspiring words and timeless wisdom of the athletic coaches who changed and influenced their lives and pass on the sage advice they received. Read more

A Load of Hooey

By: Bob Odenkirk

Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, various narrators, David Cross, J...

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal television shows.This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever") to intentionally... Read more

Vanity Fair: November 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 5 hours 28 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 Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Bobby Spears

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the fierce and lyrical icon for criminal reformation describes himself as "ill…from America's fake fa├ºade of justice and democracy." For Iceberg Slim, the illness may have been a detriment, but for us it's a gift. His tales serve as a chilling reminder that we are all inmates of one prison or another, and the... Read more

The Language Food

By: Dan Jurafsky

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food.

Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the... Read more

Not That Kind of Girl

By: Lena Dunham

Narrated by: Lena Dunham

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the brightest and most original writers working today.
 
“If I can take what I’ve learned in this life and make one treacherous... Read more

A Slip of the Keyboard

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.
     Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an... Read more

Kalevala. Das finnische Nationalepos

By: Christine Giersberg & Elias Lönnrot

Narrated by: Reinhard Kuhnert

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

as im Jahre 1835 von Elias Lönnrot aufgezeichnete Nationalepos Kalevala basiert auf mündlichen Überlieferungen der finnischen Mythologie und gehört zu den wichtigsten Werken der finnischen Literatur. Der Text des Kalevalas besteht aus 22.795 Versen in fünfzig Gesängen, auch Runen genannt. Die deutsche Übersetzung ist von Anton Schiefner und... Read more

NPR Laughter Therapy: Funny for a Living

By: NPR

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This extended session of Laughter Therapy explores the history of all things funny, presenting a cornucopia of comedy from the pioneers of vaudeville and the silent film era, to the wildly creative innovators that transformed television in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, to the modern practitioners that continue to bend the boundaries of comedy... Read more

The Happiness of Pursuit

By: Chris Guillebeau

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable guide to the quests that give our lives meaning—and how to find your own—from the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup and 100 Side Hustles
 
“If you like complacency and mediocrity, do not read this book. It’s dangerously inspiring.”—A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All
 
When he set out to visit all of the... Read more