Essays audiobooks

Three Weeks with My Brother

By: Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.

As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both... Read more

Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged

By: Saira Shah

Narrated by: Saira Shah

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more

Kabloona

By: Gontran de Poncins

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more

The Reluctant Metrosexual

By: Peter Hyman

Narrated by: Peter Hyman

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, an essayist and stand-up comedian, this collection of hilarious essays is about a single guy attempting to live on the right side of hip.If Peter Hyman is a metrosexual, a straight man with gay tastes, then he is one reluctantly, being loath to hitch himself to an au courant cultural trend unless doing so would get him a... Read more

An Affair with Africa

By: Alzada Carlisle Kistner

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the... Read more

Days of Obligation

By: Richard Rodriguez

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of ten essays span the five centuries of history, from Hernan Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to San Francisco's AIDS epidemic.Richard Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California—as well as the impact this history had on him.Rodriguez... Read more

The Eternal Summer

By: Curt Sampson

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to the show and enabled this "rich man's sport" to win over millions of new fans.Here was... Read more

The Great Chase

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is the longest-standing rivalry in baseball history—a feud that began in the late nineteenth century when both clubs were based in New York City. Then, on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" ended their pennant race—one of the most dramatic ever. Interviews, contemporary newspaper articles,... Read more

Attention All Shipping - Abridged

By: Charlie Connelly

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales.
Sitting at home listening to the... Read more

Coach

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line... Read more

Naked - Abridged

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does... Read more

The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines - Abridged

By: Sue Ellen Cooper

Narrated by: Sue Ellen Cooper

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Red Hat Society® is a collection of the RHS members' most memorably funny and touching stories. It's chicken soup for the Red Hat soul

Life begins at 50! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. In THE RED HAT SOCIETY®'S LAUGH LINES, Sue Ellen Cooper and the women of the RHS... Read more

Let Me Tell You a Story - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: Arnie Mazer

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

"Did I ever tell you about Wilt Chamberlain?" "Did I ever tell you about Bob Cousy?" "Did I ever tell you about Joe DiMaggio?" Whenever Arnold "Red" Auerbach starts a sentence with those six words -- "Did I ever tell you about . . ." -- anyone within earshot should prepare to hear a marvelous story.

As a living legend among sports fans, Red... Read more

The Disappointment Artist

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these “voyages out... Read more

My Life in the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: James Atlas

Narrated by: James Atlas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Striving children, aging parents, job pressures, financial anxieties, physical ailments, generalized hope and dread—a memoir of middle age that is both literary and confessionalWhat is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our forties and fifties, the period now generously known as middle age. Of... Read more

Feet on the Street

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Feet on the Street: - Abridged

By: Roy Blount, Jr.

Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more

Alan Bennett

By: Alan Bennett

Narrated by: Alan Bennett

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

'I tend to think of myself as a man of few words, but looking at this collection it seems to have been gab gab gab for the last thirty years'. Admittedly not all the words are his own - but even the work of other writers can be transformed by Alan Bennett. This unique anthology of Bennett's BBC radio and television work features extracts... Read more

Faithful

By: Stewart O'Nan & Stephen King

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Adam Grupper

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be—well, faithful, come hell or high water” (The Boston Globe).

“Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory,... Read more

Time's Magpie - Abridged

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Myla Goldberg

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the critically acclaimed bestselling author of Bee Season comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague - a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In Time's Magpie, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and... Read more

Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: McAvoy Layne

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the... Read more

The Pat Conroy Cookbook - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Pat Conroy

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's favorite storyteller is back—with a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond.

This audiobook is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that I... Read more

George Carlin Reads to You - Abridged

By: George Carlin

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Great comedy and a good deal, this new gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy® winners.



Please note: This is a historical recording. The audio quality represents the technology of the time when it was produced. Read more

Toast

By: Nigel Slater

Narrated by: Nigel Slater

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater

Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda,... Read more