Essays audiobooks

Train Tracks

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A marvelous storyteller.”
—The New Yorker“A blazing flamethrower of truth.”
—Ted Nugent, Washington TimesA #1 New York Times bestselling author and superstar radio personality, Michael Savage is admired by millions for his tough talk and no-punches-pulled common sense about the state of our union and its leaders. In Train Tracks, a more personal... Read more

How I Slept My Way to the Middle

By: Kevin Pollak

Narrated by: Kevin Pollak

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, he’s a killer impressionist—Falk, Shatner, Walken, Nicholson—a versatile actor with one of the most respected filmographies around, and an Internet... Read more

Both Flesh and Not

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.

Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this... Read more

Kitchen Round Table - Abridged

By: Marja Samsom

Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more

The Fun Stuff

By: James Wood

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, far-ranging collection of essays from "the strongest…literary critic we have." (New York Review of Books)Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation—The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as... Read more

J'accuse !

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Jacques Weber

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle. On verra bien si l'on ne vient pas de préparer, pour plus tard, le plus retentissant des désastres. Zola publie en 1898 l'article J'accuse dans L'Aurore, pour dénoncer l'incroyable erreur... Read more

Testaments Betrayed

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading."" —New York Times Book Review""Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread."" — Washington PostA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century’s... Read more

This Living Hand

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Edmund Morris

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover... Read more

Damn Yankees

By: Rob Fleder

Narrated by: George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Barbara Caruso & S...

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. More than an opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.
—From the IntroductionLove them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an American institution for nearly a century. With their rich history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never fail to inspire or provoke. In this... Read more

David Mitchell: Back Story

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: David Mitchell

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life. ... Read more

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

The Indispensable Milton Friedman

By: Lanny Ebenstein

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulation and welfare have inspired movements, influenced government policies, and changed the course of America’s economic history. Now, acclaimed Friedman biographer Lanny Ebenstein brings together twenty... Read more

Neuseeland Sagen und Legenden

By: Caroline-Therese Wolff

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Neuseeland ist das Land der Naturwunder, das Land der außergewöhnlichen Tier- und Pflanzenarten und ein Land reich an Sagen, Mythen und Legenden. Die Maori nennen Neuseeland Aotearoa und fühlen sich seit Generationen eng mit ihrem Inselstaat verbunden. So erzählen sie bis heute die alten Sagen und Legenden, mit denen viele Generationen... Read more

Humblebrag

By: Harris Wittels

Narrated by: Harris Wittels

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed.


Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so... Read more

The Dangerous Animals Club

By: Stephen Tobolowsky

Narrated by: Stephen Tobolowsky

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, comes a collection of memoiristic pieces about life, love, acting, and adventure, told with a beguiling voice and an uncommon talent for storytelling.

The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky is a series of stories that form a non-linear autobiography. Each story stands on its own, and... Read more

The Longest Way Home

By: Andrew McCarthy

Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years—and with no clear understanding of what’s holding him back—Andrew McCarthy finds himself at a crossroads, plagued by doubts that have clung to him for a lifetime. Something in his character has kept him always at a distance, preventing him from giving himself wholeheartedly to the woman he... Read more

Sailing Alone around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic... Read more

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By: Fran Lebowitz

Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.

In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends,... Read more

My Heart Is an Idiot

By: Davy Rothbart

Narrated by: Davy Rothbart

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He's continually coming up with outrageous schemes, which he always... Read more

Schweizer Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Apfelschuss von Wilhelm Tell und der Rütlischwur sind zwei der bekanntesten Geschichten aus der Schweiz. Uve Teschner erzählt in dieser Lesung weitere 18 ausgewählte Sagen und Legenden der Schweiz. Vermutlich gab es bereits 5.300 v. Chr. bei Gächlingen (Schaffhausen) erste landwirtschaftliche Siedlungen. Entdeckungen an den Schweizer... Read more

David Attenborough In His Own Words

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews: Parkinson (broadcast on BBC One, 2th December 1975, featuring Michael Parkinson), Profile (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1st July 1976, featuring Kathleen Cheesmond), Desert Island Discs (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1th March 1979, featuring Roy... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Blue Water, Green Skipper

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Stephen Collins

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea?

Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his... Read more

Chasing the Monsoon

By: Alexander Frater

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring story of how one man realized his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon.Alexander Frater spent the first six years of his life on a South Pacific island, where his father, the only doctor within a thousand square miles, encouraged his fascination and respect for the... Read more