Essays audiobooks

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

By: Tucker Max

Narrated by: Tucker Max

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucker Max graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago in 1998 and received an academic scholarship to Duke Law School, where he graduated in 2001, despite the fact that he spent part of one semester--while still enrolled in classes--living in Cancun. He took these degrees and set out to help the world--by drinking, hooking up,... Read more

Too Fat to Fish

By: Artie Lange

Narrated by: Artie Lange, The Reverend Bob Levy, Gary Dell'A...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough to keep pace with his own, a... Read more

Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg

By: Kathie Lee Gifford

Narrated by: Kathie Lee Gifford

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of America’s most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And that’s why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething (!) devoted mother and dedicated television personality yet to be revealed.

Just When I Thought I’d Dropped... Read more

Not That Kind of Girl

By: Lena Dunham

Narrated by: Lena Dunham

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the brightest and most original writers working today.
 
“If I can take what I’ve learned in this life and make one treacherous... Read more

Rob Delaney

By: Rob Delaney

Narrated by: Rob Delaney

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Deadpool 2 fan favorite comes a “hilarious, raw” (Rolling Stone) memoir about love, sex, parenthood, work, substance abuse, and everything else that makes life wonderful and/or horrible.

Rob Delaney is a comedy superstar. But if you’re ever watched him steal scenes as Peter in Deadpool 2, binged his streaming series Catastrophe,... Read more

Keep It Pithy

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Dan Woren

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the #1-rated... Read more

Blue Plate Special

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.

“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.”... Read more

I Don't Know What You Know Me From

By: Judy Greer

Narrated by: Judy Greer

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend. 

In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From, Greer writes about everything you would hope to hear from your best... Read more

You Herd Me!

By: Colin Cowherd

Narrated by: Colin Cowherd

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

There are really two games, the one you see and the one you don't. The way I see it, the best way to use access to both worlds is to illuminate and reveal, not idolize and adore. It's better to be wrong than to be played for a fool. – Colin Cowherd
 
In this age of billion dollar athletic marketing campaigns, “feel good” philosophy with no... Read more

Dance of the Reptiles

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of the best Miami Herald columns from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system.

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling... Read more

Dear Girls Above Me

By: Charles McDowell

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
 
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral.... Read more

The Happiness of Pursuit

By: Chris Guillebeau

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable guide to the quests that give our lives meaning—and how to find your own—from the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup and 100 Side Hustles
 
“If you like complacency and mediocrity, do not read this book. It’s dangerously inspiring.”—A. J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All
 
When he set out to visit all of the... Read more

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

By: Diane Keaton

Narrated by: Diane Keaton

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks.
 
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In... Read more

The Noble Hustle

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Colson Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”
 
 
On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a... Read more

Not Cool

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.  
 
From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a massive scale.  The Cool are the termites of life,... Read more

Sous Chef

By: Michael Gibney

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapid-fire... Read more

Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Jim Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator. 

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend... Read more

A Slip of the Keyboard

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.
     Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an... Read more

The Job

By: Steve Osborne

Narrated by: Steve Osborne

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"How ya doin?"

With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his twenty years served as an NYPD street cop. Steve... Read more

My Paris Dream

By: Kate Betts

Narrated by: Kate Betts

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style

“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”

As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a... Read more

Revolution

By: Russell Brand

Narrated by: Russell Brand

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
 
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our... Read more

Iberia

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 37 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is... Read more

This Noble Land

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Arthur Addison

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii, Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and again that his understanding of and love for his country was unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener’s most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation—racial... Read more

Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat

By: Jen Mann

Narrated by: Jen Mann

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece.

When it comes to time-honored holiday traditions, Jen Mann pulls no punches

In this hilariously irreverent collection of essays, Jen Mann, nationally bestselling author of People I Want to... Read more