Essays audiobooks

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Narrated by: Kirk Jordan

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky’s defense of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khymer Rouge, as well as his bizarre associations with Holocaust revisionists, may surprise those who think they know what he believes. Other Chomsky views, such as his claim that the United States has taken the place of Nazi Germany on the world stage, will be more familiar. With Chomskyism... Read more

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

By: Erma Bombeck

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Erma Bombeck's humorous insights about family life always tickle readers' funny bones. Her New York Times best-sellers have sold millions of copies to gleeful readers around the world. In The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeck joins the station wagon train to the suburbs. In new lands like the Suburbian Gems subdivision,... Read more

Good Dog. Stay.

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed."

So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by... Read more

Münchner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

München ist nach Berlin und Hamburg die drittgrößte Stadt Deutschlands und hat sich trotz der stetig wachsenden Bevölkerungszahl den urbayerischen Charme erhalten und alte Traditionen bewahrt. So finden sich in der Hauptstadt des Freistaates Bayern noch heute zahlreiche Orte, an denen sich wundersame Dinge zugetragen haben sollen. Wie entstand... Read more

Kerplunk!

By: Patrick F. McManus

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the latest hilarious collection of folksy, humorous, and wonderfully wise stories about country life from the bestselling author of The Blight Way.



Patrick F. McManus has garnered legions of faithful fans with his monthly column in Outdoor Life and his many celebrated books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Grasshopper Trap and... Read more

Hate Mail from Cheerleaders

By: Rick Reilly

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Each week, when Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn right to the last page because that's where to find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly took over SI's back... Read more

Secret Ingredients - Abridged

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam... Read more

This I Believe - Abridged

By: Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

Narrated by: Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins with the book's title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share... Read more

Schulz and Peanuts - Abridged

By: David Michaelis

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest... Read more

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s a “driveway moment”? It’s when you’re so captivated by a story you’re hearing on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you’re sitting in your driveway with the motor running. For years, listeners have written to NPR to describe such moments. Now animal lovers especially will want to make sure their tanks are... Read more

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

By: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev’s characteristic humour and unique perspective form the heart of this audiobook that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series. Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and... Read more

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize–winning humorist.

Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?

That didn’t happen, right?

But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian’s robe... Read more

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts - Abridged

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the coast of... Read more

The Heart of the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the latest of Gervase Phinn's charming tales, The Heart of the Dales, read by the man himself.

His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the eccentric staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent... Read more

Byline: Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his passion for bullfighting and first safari in Africa.

Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a... Read more

Sagenhaft! Geschichten aus Bamberg

By: Marco Kirchner

Narrated by: Marco Kirchner

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Wanderung des passionierten Geschichtenerzählers Marco Kirchner geht weiter. Dieses Mal führt ihn seine Reise in die alte Bischofsstadt Bamberg. Rund um den Bamberger Dom, dessen Grundsteinlegung durch Kaiser Heinrich II. auf das Jahr 1004 n. Chr. zurückgeht, ranken sich bis heute zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die leider weitgehend in... Read more

Ask a Mexican

By: Gustavo Arellano

Narrated by: William Dufris, James Herrera & Christine Marshall

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by a rising star in the alternative media, as well as a new kid on the block in such mainstream venues as NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Today, and The Colbert Report. Gustavo Arellano has compiled the best questions about Mexican Americans from readers of his Ask a... Read more

At Knit's End

By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Narrated by: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Yarn Harlot takes time away from her knitting to offer observations, meditations, reflections, and rants to soothe and delight the knitter's unraveled soul.



Like golfing, fishing, and gardening, knitting is an obsession. It's an activity fraught with guilt, frustration, over-optimism, sly deception, and compulsion, along with passionate... Read more

Just a Guy

By: Bill Engvall & Alan Eisenstock

Narrated by: Bill Engvall

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Engvall has been making people laugh professionally for more than 20 years, and along with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White, is a founding member of the superstar Blue Collar Comedy Tour. In this audiobook, Engvall explains what it means to be ‘just a guy' using all-new stories from his own life. Bill has always lived with... Read more

Just a Guy - Abridged

By: Bill Engvall & Alan Eisenstock

Narrated by: Bill Engvall

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Engvall has been making people laugh professionally for more than 20 years, and along with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White, is a founding member of the superstar Blue Collar Comedy Tour. In this audiobook, Engvall explains what it means to be ‘just a guy' using all-new stories from his own life. Bill has always lived with... Read more

The Outermost House

By: Henry Beston

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more

It's How You Play the Game and The Games Do Count - Abridged

By: Brian Kilmeade

Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Surprising, entertaining, and always imparting an important life lesson, It’s How You Play the Game features anecdotes and vignettes that are sure to benefit any reader. As Brian Kilmeade writes, ""Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life. Winning... Read more

Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and ... Read more