Essays audiobooks

The Third Plate

By: Dan Barber

Narrated by: Dan Barber

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post

Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. In his visionary New York Times–bestselling book,... Read more

President Me - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can’t do it? You don’t have to! Adam has done it for you!Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world view in his New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We’ll... Read more

The Noble Hustle

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Colson Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”
 
 
On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a... Read more

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having

By: Edith Zimmerman, Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, ...

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless... Read more

The Closer

By: Mariano Rivera

Narrated by: Michael Kay

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.

Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He... Read more

Stirring the Pot

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Jenny McCarthy

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend: honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much she “stirs the pot.” Combining the secrets of her... 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

Vanity Fair: June 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 45 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

Vanity Fair: January–April 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 21 hours 36 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

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

By: Diane Keaton

Narrated by: Diane Keaton

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks.
 
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In... Read more

Mookie

By: Mookie Wilson & Erik Sherman

Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They said it was the “Curse of the Bambino.” They said “the bad guys won.” Now one of baseball’s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story—from the ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Game Six rally against the Boston Red Sox to the rise and fall of a team... Read more

Shrinkage

By: Bryan Bishop

Narrated by: Bryan Bishop

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the popular sidekick on the Guinness World Record-breaking Adam Carolla Show comes this candid, comical, and uplifting memoir of the author's courageous battle and recovery.

At thirty years old Bryan Bishop’s life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was... Read more

Der unbekannte Soldat - Zum Andenken an Bertha von Suttner (ungekürzt)

By: Stefan Frankenberger

Narrated by: Cornelius Obonya, Stefano Bernadin & Angehörige...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"WER NICHT FÜR DEN FRIEDEN ARBEITET, DER ARBEITET GEGEN IHN" Der unbekannte Soldat ist eine Hommage an Bertha von Suttner, die erste Botschafterin des Pazifismus, lange bevor er eine greifbare Theorie einer Welt ohne Waffen war und lange bevor diese Welt in Trümmer fiel. Unterlegt und eingerahmt von musikalischen Interventionen, versammelt das... Read more

Our Boston

By: Andrew Blauner

Narrated by: various narrators, Peter Berkrot, Johnny Heller...

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor... Read more

I Don't Know What You Know Me From

By: Judy Greer

Narrated by: Judy Greer

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend. 

In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From, Greer writes about everything you would hope to hear from your best... Read more

The Opposite of Loneliness

By: Marina Keegan

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.



As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief,... Read more

Dirty Daddy

By: Bob Saget

Narrated by: Bob Saget

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up routines, comedy specials, and outrageously... Read more

The Snow Leopard - Abridged

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Peter Matthiessen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...

IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the... Read more

Vanity Fair: May 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 5 hours 40 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

Sous Chef

By: Michael Gibney

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapid-fire... Read more

Not Cool

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.  
 
From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a massive scale.  The Cool are the termites of life,... Read more

Vanity Fair: April 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 37 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

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

By: Chelsea Handler

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

WHAT . . . A RIOT!

Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea delivers one laugh-out-loud moment... Read more

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

By: Chelsea Handler

Narrated by: Chelsea Handler

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT . . . A RIOT!

Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea delivers one laugh-out-loud moment... Read more