Essays audiobooks

Jakobsweg Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer den Jakobsweg erlebt hat, weiß von seiner Mystik und der Faszination, die Jahr um Jahr tausende Pilger anzieht. Der Weg nach Santiago de Compostela ist voller Abenteuer. Und so begegnen den Pilgern auf der Reise viele Geschichten, Sagen, Mythen und Legenden. Von den wundersamsten Legenden, die sich auf diesem heiligen Weg ereignet haben... Read more

This Explains Everything

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, Michelle Ford &...

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are... Read more

Vanity Fair: March 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 44 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

Dance of the Reptiles

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system.

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling... Read more

C. S. Lewis

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 38 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but... Read more

Never Have I Ever

By: Katie Heaney

Narrated by: Sarah Franco

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."
So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped with a college degree, a load of friends, and a happy family... Read more

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

Never Have I Ever

By: Katie Heaney

Narrated by: Sarah Franco

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face."

So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped with a college degree, a load of friends, and a happy family... Read more

Vanity Fair: February 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

Mastery of Life

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life - they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson's ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities. Reading and... Read more

Mastery of Life

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life – they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson’s ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities. Reading and... Read more

Vanity Fair: October–December 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 15 hours 40 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 a 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... Read more

Short Stories

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

Letters

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

Things That Matter

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Charles Krauthammer & George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
 
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his... Read more

Vanity Fair: January 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 5 hours 16 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

Total Frat Move

By: W. R. Bolen & the Creators of TotalFratMove. com

Narrated by: Alden Ford

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER
Put simply, it's time for a national update on college fraternities. Greek life today makes Animal House look like a Pixar movie. The amount of alcohol that is being consumed, promiscuous sex that is being enjoyed, and intense drug-induced raging that is taking place on campuses across the country has quietly... Read more

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank... Read more

The Kid

By: Ben Bradlee Jr.

Narrated by: Dave Mallow

Length: 35 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for.

Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average.... Read more

Tiger fressen keine Yogis - Abridged

By: Helge Timmerberg

Narrated by: Mathieu Carrière

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ein Tiger raubte ihm die Hände, die Zunge biss er sich während eines Malariaanfalls selber ab, und sein linkes Auge verlor er bei dem Streit mit einem afghanischen Widerstandskämpfer, den er um zwei Kilo Haschisch bescheißen wollte." So hätte es kommen können. Aber eines kann man Helge Timmerberg nun wirklich nicht nachsagen: er hätte nicht... Read more

Confederates in the Attic

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

You Herd Me!

By: Colin Cowherd

Narrated by: Colin Cowherd

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

There are really two games, the one you see and the one you don't. The way I see it, the best way to use access to both worlds is to illuminate and reveal, not idolize and adore. It's better to be wrong than to be played for a fool. – Colin Cowherd
 
In this age of billion dollar athletic marketing campaigns, “feel good” philosophy with no... Read more

Some Everyday Thoughts

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

Paris, Paris

By: David Downie

Narrated by: Max Winter

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-├ëlys├®es to the old Montmartre haunts of the... Read more