Essays audiobooks

Beyond Bin Laden

By: James A. Baker III, Karen Hughes & Eric Conger

Narrated by: Gayle Humphrey

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt... Read more

Attempting Normal

By: Marc Maron

Narrated by: Marc Maron

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

People make a mess.
 
Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a... Read more

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By: Fran Lebowitz

Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.

In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends,... Read more

Wallflower at the Orgy

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more

Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one audiobook. 
 
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way... Read more

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

By: Neil Patrick Harris

Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of NEIL PATRICK HARRIS’S CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you’ll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don’t have to make any decisions or jump around—just kick back, relax... Read more

The Joy of Hate

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more

A House of My Own

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.

From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a... Read more

The French Chef in America

By: Alex Prud'homme

Narrated by: Alex Prud'homme

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew

Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France coauthor vividly recounts the myriad ways in which she profoundly... Read more

This Old Man

By: Roger Angell

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. 

Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Angell won... Read more

An Economist Gets Lunch

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong.

Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator, and maverick dining guide blogger Tyler Cowen.... Read more

This Living Hand

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Edmund Morris

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, “You have the most precious gift of all—originality.” That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover... 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

Got to Give the People What They Want

By: Jalen Rose

Narrated by: Jalen Rose

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments.” – From the Introduction
 
One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story.
 
Jalen Rose has never been quiet.  Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s.  Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary... Read more

Confederates in the Attic

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

Things That Matter

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Charles Krauthammer & George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
 
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his... Read more

Shrinkage

By: Bryan Bishop

Narrated by: Bryan Bishop

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the popular sidekick on the Guinness World Record-breaking Adam Carolla Show comes this candid, comical, and uplifting memoir of the author's courageous battle and recovery.

At thirty years old Bryan Bishop’s life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was... Read more

Stirring the Pot

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Jenny McCarthy

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend: honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much she “stirs the pot.” Combining the secrets of her... Read more

It Was Me All Along

By: Andie Mitchell

Narrated by: Andie Mitchell

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
 
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured... Read more

Little Victories

By: Jason Gay

Narrated by: Jason Gay

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

“The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read. It will not make you rich in twenty-four hours, or even... Read more

Why Not Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, Greg Daniels & B. J. Novak

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.

“This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today

In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares... Read more

Bella Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

Babyhood

By: Paul Reiser

Narrated by: Paul Reiser

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm going to be totally honest.  This is not the kind of audiobook that can help you.  It's not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect."  It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession.  (Although a cousin of mine who sells carpeting to doctors' offices not only found it "insightful" and "informative," but... Read more