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

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 Bassoon King

By: Rainn Wilson

Narrated by: Rainn Wilson

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
 
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and... Read more

Discontent and its Civilizations

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.”
 
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a “master... Read more

Small Victories

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Stitches, and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.

Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message... 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” (The New 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

Bushworld

By: Maureen Dowd

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to... Read more

Eat, Pray, Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the... Read more

Talk to the Hand

By: Lynne Truss

Narrated by: Lynne Truss

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Talk to the hand, ’cause the face ain’t listening," the saying goes.When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior that for some has become a point of pride, Talk to the Hand... Read more

Toast

By: Nigel Slater

Narrated by: Nigel Slater

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater

Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda,... Read more

Pretty in Plaid

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours

The hardcover debut from the New York Times– bestselling author of Such a Pretty Fat. Read more

Born Round

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough

Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he... Read more

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Thomas Cathcart

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ., a new book on the meaning of death (and life, too). Read more

Changing My Mind

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times

Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both... Read more

I'll Mature When I'm Dead

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I'll Mature When I'm Dead is the New York Times bestseller from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave Barry make the journey to adulthood a little easier—and a lot funnier.

Not everyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming through adulthood. Dave... Read more

My Fair Lazy

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on.

Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration... Read more

How Did You Get This Number

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always... Read more

Then Everything Changed

By: Jeff Greenfield

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Jeff Greenfield

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of American politics from one of journalism's most acclaimed commentators.History turns on a dime. A missed meeting, a different choice of words, and the outcome changes dramatically. Nowhere is this truer than in the field where Jeff Greenfield has spent most of his working life, American... Read more

Dewey's Nine Lives

By: Vicki Myron

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki Myron follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories! Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats—all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who... Read more

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.

Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace on earth and goodwill toward all. But not for Lewis Black.

He says humbug to the Christmas tradtitions and... Read more

On China

By: Henry Kissinger

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the... Read more

Travels with Charley in Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Gary Sinise

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
 
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley,... Read more

The New New Rules

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and host of HBO's Real Time, Bill Maher's new book of political riffs serves up a savagely funny set of rules for preserving sanity in an insane world.A follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The New Rules, The New New Rules delivers a series of hilarious, intelligent rants on everything from same-sex marriage... Read more

Tough Sh*t

By: Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Kevin Smith

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store,... Read more