Essays audiobooks

Beyond Belief

By: Josh Hamilton

Narrated by: Ethan Sawyer

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intimate memoir, former Major League Baseball player Josh Hamilton reflects on his battle with addiction and the impact it had on his career—and the spiritual journey that helped him heal.

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character "... 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

When I Was a Child I Read Books

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Marilynne Robinson

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Gilead

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous... Read more

Saint Patrick, The Banner, The Hat, and the FBI

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day! Alphie McCourt, author of the convivial memoir A Long Stone's Throw and youngest brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), releases his reminiscences of the beloved holiday. This story, written and read by the author, strings together retellings of a few of the expatriate Irishman's most memorable Saint... Read more

Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An
epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconic
images of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they are
fabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these
"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass... Read more

Mir kocht die Blut - Die wunderbare Welt der Querulanten und Sonderlinge

By: Roger Willemsen

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen & Anke Engelke

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wie, wenn nicht mit dem Blaulicht auf dem Kopf, sollte man für sie eintreten, die Kritikaster, Meckerer, Raunzer, Streithammel, Widerspruchsgeister und Zankteufel?" Sie streiten und eifern, sie randalieren und keifen, nicht abzuschütteln sind sie, und sie geben nicht nach. Haben sie sich einmal einen Floh ins Ohr gesetzt, dann lassen sie nicht... Read more

Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?

By: The Believer

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt, George Saunders, Jerry Stahl, Ju...

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, Late Show with David Letterman, The Hangover, and The Colbert Report, along with other musicians, cartoonists, New Yorker writers, and those similarly unqualified to offer guidance.
 
Here Amy... Read more

Salzburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Das zauberhafte Salzburg, durch das die Salzach fließt, ist Landeshauptstadt des gleich­namigen Bundeslandes und liegt inmitten des Salzburger Beckens. Iuvavum lautete der Name der Stadt zu Zeiten der Römer. Im 6. Jahrhundert erfolgte die Besiedelung der Gegend durch die Bajuwaren. 696 erfuhr Salzburg eine Neugründung als Bischofssitz und wurde... Read more

You're Not Doing It Right

By: Michael Ian Black

Narrated by: Michael Ian Black

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Christian Lander’s hipster/yuppie-friendly bestselling Stuff White People Like, Michael Ian Black delivers his unique brand of quirky, deadpan humor in this new collection of comedic essays. Now that Black has become the guy he swore he’d never be—a Yuppie A-Hole—he has a lot to say about his family life in suburbia, and he... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: William Edward Burghardt

Narrated by: Maria Young

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This world famous book contains several essays on race and their way of life. Read more

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

By: Jerome Klapka Jerome

Narrated by: Edward Young

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. Read more

Whatever You Do, Don't Run

By: Peter Allison

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the
wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides
whose outrageous... Read more

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Paul Garcia

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Machiavelli's leading political and philiosophical treatise on the nature of power and the State in Renaissance Florence which continues to be relevant to modern political thinking. Read more

In the Country of Brooklyn

By: Peter Golenbock

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 23 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What is Brooklyn? A bedroom suburb of Manhattan? A crumbling relic of urban decay? A collection of gorgeous million dollar brownstones? A magnet for artists and writers and hipsters and yuppies and new immigrants and real estate developers? A hotbed of political activists? A breeding ground for mobsters? A place to achieve the American dream? A... Read more

Lost in Language and Sound

By: Ntozake Shange

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost in Language and Sound is a vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange: language, music, and dance. In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and... Read more

Believe

By: Buck Brannaman & William Reynolds

Narrated by: John Pruden & Karen White

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In his bestselling The Faraway Horses, Buck Brannaman, extraordinary trainer and acknowledged inspiration for The Horse Whispererer, described how he found his calling and honed his art and craft. Following the book's widespread acclaim, the universal application of Brannaman's approach to interpersonal relationships has struck a responsive... Read more

Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the... Read more

The Faraway Horses

By: Buck Brannaman & William Reynolds

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly every week of the year, Buck Brannaman is on the road, conducting horsemanship clinics in which he teaches horse owners how to better understand and work with their animals, creating a relationship based on trust and respect rather than force. Buck's skill has become the stuff of legend—in fact, the main character in Robert Redford's film... Read more

One on One

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends.

John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus,... Read more

Best Friends, Occasional Enemies

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They're number one on each other's speed dial and they tell each other... 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

To Jerusalem and Back

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellow’s sojourn in Israel in 1975. A personal record of his stay—his experiences and impressions—as well as a meditation, it crackles with wit and controversy on America’s relationship with this embattled country.Using quick sketches and vignettes, Bellow captures the personal opinions, passions,... Read more

The Ecstasy of Influence

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.

A constellation of previously published... Read more