Essays audiobooks

Still a Legend

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This book recounts the slugger Roger Maris' life before, during, and after his headline season of 1961, when the taciturn North Dakota native topped Babe Ruth's all-time record by hitting sixty-one home runs. From his youth as a star high-school athlete and American Legion baseball player, Maris's went on to play for the Cleveland Indians, the... Read more

Furious Love

By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... 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

I Know I Am, But What Are You?

By: Samantha Bee

Narrated by: Samantha Bee

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from much-loved Samantha Bee, host of TBS's uproarious late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, executive producer and writer of TBS's comedy television series The Detour, and former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s Most Senior Correspondent.

In I Know I Am, But What Are You? she shares her... Read more

Exploration Fawcett

By: P. H. Fawcett

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazil’s Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time with... Read more

To Save America

By: Newt Gingrich

Narrated by: Newt Gingrich & Callista Gingrich

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In his blockbuster book To Save America, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America. Gingrich argues that the big-spending, big-government programs and bureaucracies of the secular socialist Left are the greatest threat to our nation’s survival since the Civil War. By spending more than we... Read more

Sports from Hell

By: Rick Reilly

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.

What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey—with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a... 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

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

Saarbrücken Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Saarbrücken, seit 1947 Landeshauptstadt des Saarlandes, entstand 1909 aus den Städten Saarbrücken, St. Johann und Malstatt-Burbach. Das Wahrzeichen der Stadt ist die prächtige, imposante Ludwigskirche, eine der bedeutendsten barocken evangelischen Kirchen Deutschlands. Die Ursprünge Saarbrückens reichen bis in die vorrömische Zeit zurück. Damals... Read more

The Bedwetter

By: Sarah Silverman

Narrated by: Sarah Silverman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne and star of the powerful 2015 film I Smile Back Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah’s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea... Read more

Scent of the Missing

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon discovered... Read more

Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life

By: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Narrated by: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life, the... Read more

Every Day in Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.
 
Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in... Read more

NPR Classic Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Presented together for the first time, here are the very first, and very best, definitive listener favorites that came to be known as Driveway Moments: the classic, spellbinding stories that keep getting better with repeated listening, selected from the National Public Radio archives. These tales were first heard on Morning Edition, All Things... Read more

Love Is the Best Medicine

By: Dr. Nick Trout

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A book guaranteed to touch anyone who has ever had a beloved pet… 
 
   From instant New York Times bestseller, Dr. Nick Trout comes another touching and heartfelt story from the front lines of veterinary medicine—the story of two dogs who forever changed the way he thought about life, death, fate and love.

   Helen is an older cocker spaniel found... Read more

Augsburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Marco Kirchner

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hätt' ich Venedigs Macht und Augsburger Pracht, Nürnberger Witz, Straßburger Geschütz und Ulmer Geld, wär' ich der Reichste in der Welt. Dieses Sprichwort aus dem 16. Jahrhundert schwärmt von der Stadt Augsburg. Zwischen Lech und Wertach gelegen, war Augsburg schon immer eine Stadt der Superlative. Im Jahr 15 v. Chr. unter Kaiser Augustus als... Read more

My Footprint

By: Jeff Garlin

Narrated by: Jeff Garlin

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical... Read more

Konstanzer Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Mathias Bauer

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Konstanz am Bodensee ist eine reizvolle, weltoffene, historische Stadt. Die Landschaft und der Blick über den See bis zu den Voralpen begeistern jährlich tausende Besucher. Die Konstanzer sind zu recht stolz auf ihre Stadt und ihre abwechslungsreiche Geschichte. Im ersten Jahrhundert v. Chr. siedelten Kelten im Gebiet der heutigen Niederburg;... Read more

The Routes of Man

By: Ted Conover

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores... Read more

The Tree Where Man Was Born

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator... Read more

Making Rounds with Oscar

By: David Dosa

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An otherwise ordinary cat—he’d sooner give you his back or a sideways glance than curl up on your lap—Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old tabby has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five nursing home... Read more

The Professor and Other Writings

By: Terry Castle

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the... Read more

Out of the Frying Pan - Abridged

By: Keith Floyd

Narrated by: Keith Floyd

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known personality, and the discovery of a writing... Read more