Essays audiobooks

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

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

Andrew Zimmern visits Iceland

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Samoa

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern on Seafood

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Tobago

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Huatulco

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Madrid

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Nicaragua

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Singapore

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits China and Andrew Zimmern, Nature's Candy (Foreign Fruits)

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Taiwan

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern's Pleasant Surprises

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern, Rituals Around the World

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

Andrew Zimmern visits Cuba

By: Andrew Zimmern

Narrated by: Andrew Zimmern

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in... Read more

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.

Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed... Read more

Half Empty

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed.

In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the realities of our sunny,  gosh­... Read more

They Call Me Baba Booey

By: Gary Dell'Abate & Chad Millman

Narrated by: Gary Dell'Abate

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on... Read more

I Remember Nothing

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Nora Ephron

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Ephron returns with her first audiobook since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Ephron writes about falling hard... Read more

The Taliban Shuffle

By: Kim Barker

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the “dry” city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11... Read more

Future Science

By: Max Brockman

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the very latest theories and discoveries in science, editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young researchers. 
 
Future Science features eighteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their work and ideas to a general audience for the... Read more

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

By: Mindy Kaling

Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur & Bren...

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood.

“[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York Times
 
Mindy... 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

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