Essays audiobooks

Vanity Fair: October 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 13 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

Becoming Johnny Vegas

By: Johnny Vegas

Narrated by: Johnny Vegas

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

‘My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character. I’m often mistaken for one though. You might know him by another name. Johnny Vegas.’ From BBC Dickens adaptations to Benidorm and Ideal to the PG Tips ads, Johnny Vegas has become one of Britain's best-loved comic actors. But before he'd ever drunk... Read more

F**k

By: Rufus Lodge

Narrated by: Richard E Grant

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world’s favourite word. F, U, C and K – four letters that can cause outrage, scandal, embarrassment or instant relief if you hit your thumb with a hammer. In this wide-ranging and frequently hilarious history of the F-word, Rufus Lodge... Read more

Lake Wobegon Family Reunion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Here, for the first time ever, News from Lake Wobegon monologues from the entire history of “the little town on the edge of the prairie” are presented in one collection. From early fan... Read more

Sister Mother Husband Dog

By: Delia Ephron

Narrated by: Meg Ryan

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, writing, movies, and family. In “Sister,” she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship with her older sister and frequent writing companion, Nora.... Read more

The Christian in the World

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 4 hours 59 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

The Search for God

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 3 hours 2 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

Aspects of Faith

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 9 hours 33 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

Generation of Swine

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune... Read more

This Other London

By: John Rogers

Narrated by: John Rogers & Russell Brand

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. Foreword written and read... Read more

Hollywood Said No!

By: Bob Odenkirk & David Cross

Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Scott Adsit, Scott A...

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Show fans rejoice! After all these years, Bob and David are finally back together with a collection of hilarious, never-before-seen scripts, sketches, and ideas that may have just been too good for Hollywood.
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of... Read more

Man Repeller

By: Leandra Medine

Narrated by: Leandra Medine

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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Silk parachute pants. A gold lamé jumpsuit. Ankle boots with fringe. Were these fashion-forward items sending men running in the opposite direction? Maybe, but Leandra Medine never cared.

Slipping into drop-crotch shorts and a boxed sequin blazer in the dressing room of Topshop in downtown Manhattan, a brokenhearted... Read more

My Planet

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this audiobook features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage,... Read more

Brasilien

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Marion von Stengel

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch Brasilien und erfahren Sie mehr über die geschichtliche Entwicklung des fünftgrößten Landes der Erde. Marion von Stengel erzählt die schönsten Sagen, Märchen und Mythen der Ureinwohner und vermittelt darüber hinaus zahlreiche Daten und Fakten. Das Hörbuch enthält über zwei Stunden Audio-Material sowie... Read more

Turn Around Bright Eyes

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Rob Sheffield

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love.Pick up the microphone.When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock critic, with a wife he adored, and a massive collection of mix... Read more

Amazing Gracie

By: Mark Beckloff & Dan Dye

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It was love at first sight. Amid the frenzied barking and prancing of a house full of Great Danes, one pup was shivering in the corner. Gracie. But when Dan Dye reached her, she struggled to her feet like a clumsy foal, raised her forehead to his, and announced, as clearly as if she had actually spoken the words, You know I'm the one. Now get me... Read more

We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook

By: Becky Johnson & Rachel Randolph

Narrated by: Becky Johnson & Rachel Randolph

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Becky Johnson and her daughter Rachel Randolph come from a long line of laughter. The female side of her family tree is dotted with funny storytellers, prolific authors, hospitable home cooks, and champion chatters.
In We Love, We Laugh, We Cook, Becky—a butter and bacon loving mama—and Rachel—a vegan bean eating daughter—share stories of their... Read more

Thinking In Numbers

By: Daniel Tammet

Narrated by: Daniel Tammet

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers" (Oliver Sacks, MD).

Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates... Read more

I Wear the Black Hat

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine).

Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the... Read more

Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one audiobook. 
 
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way... Read more

Wallflower at the Orgy

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more

Blue Plate Special

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.

“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.”... Read more

Cricket: A Modern Anthology

By: Jonathan Agnew

Narrated by: Nick Taylor

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan “Aggers” Agnew, England’s voice of cricket, showcases some of the very best writings on the noble game, from the 1930s to the present day. In this wide-ranging and beautifully-produced anthology, Test Match Special’s Jonathan ‘Aggers’ Agnew, chooses a wide variety of writings on the sport that has consumed his life,... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A prominent sociologist, lecturer, and writer of the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's unorthodox concepts and lifestyle helped shape future generations of feminists. This audiobook includes her most enduring work, "The Yellow Wallpaper" as well as her 1913 article, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" The Yellow WallpaperTold... Read more