Essays audiobooks

NPR Laughter Therapy

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking for an alternative to the seriously reliable, soothing yet informative sound of NPR? Try NPR!

Prepare to be surprised by this collection of interviews with some of the funniest personalities on the planet, and by the memorable, unbelievable news that delights NPR listeners on the 1st of April each year. 

Interviews include: Charlie... Read more

Bread and Wine

By: Shauna Niequist

Narrated by: Shauna Niequist

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Join New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she offers an enchanting mix of funny and vulnerable storytelling in this collection of recipes and essays about the surprising and sacred things that happen when people gather around the table.Bread & Wine is a literary feast about the moments and meals that bring us together. With... Read more

Istanbul

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.  

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World

A... Read more

Ender’s World

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de...

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction. Though it began its life as a short story, it was later expanded into a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel, served as a springboard for a much larger universe of stories, and finally, has been made into a feature film.In Ender's World over a dozen writers of science fiction,... Read more

Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar

By: Kelly Oxford

Narrated by: Kelly Oxford

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Kelly Oxford is . . .A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-oldsNot the queen of the worldAn underage schnitzel-house dishwasherThe kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rushA born salesmanCapable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20That girl who peed her pants in the gas station... Read more

Laid in Chelsea

By: Ollie Locke

Narrated by: Ollie Locke

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE MADE IN CHELSEA STAR, OLLIE LOCKE. Now a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback. Pour the champagne, light some candles, lay back and prepare to laugh, cry and gasp at the fully uncensored, Bridget-Jones-esque world of Ollie Locke, star of Made in Chelsea. Read by the Made in Chelsea star himself... Read more

American Story

By: Bob Dotson

Narrated by: Bob Dotson

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The host of the NBC Today Show's popular segment shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.For the six million people who watch the Emmy Award–winning "American Story with Bob Dotson" on NBC's Today Show, Bob Dotson's reports celebrate the inspirational stories of everyday Americans. Dotson has been... Read more

It Takes Balls

By: Josh Wolf

Narrated by: Josh Wolf

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Josh Wolf--one of the stars and writers of Chelsea Lately and After Lately--delivers a hilarious collection of essays that reminds us all what it takes to conquer fatherhood without sacrificing manhood.

Struggling to make it as a stand-up comic didn't always fit with being a single parent. But Josh figured out his own set of rules--through... Read more

Extreme Frontiers

By: Charley Boorman

Narrated by: David John

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.

Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old shipwrecks in Tobermory and rides along Butch Cassidy's... Read more

How Many Camels Are There in Holland?

By: Phyllida Law

Narrated by: Phyllida Law

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’, from the inimitable Phyllida Law. Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ – which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years –... Read more

Round About the Earth

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to
circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,
flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The
story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few
survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five... Read more

Schottland Sagen und Legenden

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die erste Besiedlung des Gebietes im Nor­den der Britischen Inseln begann vor etwa 12.000 Jahren. Eine Landbrücke verband damals noch das Festland mit den heutigen Inseln. Ernsthafte Konflikte verursachten die Römer, die 80 n. Chr. nach Schottland vordrangen und versuchten die Gebiete zu erobern. Hier zeigte sich zum ersten Mal die... Read more

How to Be Alone

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen & Brian d'Arcy James

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the... Read more

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde

By: Rebecca Dana

Narrated by: Rebecca Dana

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as... Read more

Total Frat Move

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

Narrated by: Alden Ford

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

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 reached ridiculous new heights.

... Read more

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

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... Read more

Here, There, Elsewhere

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road.

Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these pieces take us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to... Read more

Bremer Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Freie Hansestadt Bremen ist das kleinste Land der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und wird zu den Stadtstaaten gezählt. Die ersten Siedlungen der späteren Hansestadt lagen auf einer Düne an der Weser, die sowohl Schutz vor Hochwasser als auch Zugang zu einer Furt bot. Im Jahre 787 unter Kaiser Karl der Große wurde die Stadt Bischofssitz und,... Read more

Münster Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Der friesische Missionar Liudger gründete 793 in der Siedlung Mimigernaford an einer Furt der Aa, ein Kloster, lateinisch: monastarium, woraus der Name Münster entstand. In der Amtszeit Liudgers (805-809), als erster Bischof von Münster, wurde auch mit dem Bau des ersten Doms begonnen. Als Münster 1170 das Stadtrecht erhielt, errichtete man eine... Read more

Happy and Merry

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo.

Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings of eggnog, Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella will keep you warm with their humor and heart. So give yourself some holiday cheer... Read more

Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling mother/daughter writing duo comes another hilarious collection of essays about motherhood, daughterhood, womanhood, and "does this hood look good on me?"

Love and tomato sauce are thick in the Scottoline/Serritella household, and Lisa and Francesca's mother-daughter turned best-friends bond will strike a familiar note to... Read more

Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!

By: Penn Jillette

Narrated by: Penn Jillette

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Let’s be honest—nobody has more fun than atheists. Don’t believe it? Well, consider this: For nonbelievers, every day you’re alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette—the larger, louder half of legendary magic duo Penn & Teller—whose spectacularly witty and sharply observant essays in Every Day... Read more

Silent Night and Frank Won't be Calling this Year

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Alphie McCourt, the youngest of the McCourt brothers, reminisces on Christmas past-from his childhood in Limerick to the celebrations of family and friends in New York as an adult with Frank and Malachy. Read more

The Joy of Hate

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more