Essays audiobooks

Catullus' Bedspread

By: Daisy Dunn

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of history’s greatest... Read more

Kick

By: Paula Byrne

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.’s adored little sister, Kick, back to life.” —Vanity FairFrom celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love.
Encouraged to be “winners”... Read more

My Life Among the Underdogs

By: Tia Torres

Narrated by: Tia Torres

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planets hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her... Read more

Sully

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Jeffrey Zaslow

Narrated by: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Michael McConnohie

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15,... Read more

Navel Gazing

By: Michael Ian Black

Narrated by: Michael Ian Black

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black (author of A Child’s First Book of Trump) delivers a “memorable and funny” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forties.

Black pulls no punches in this hilariously honest memoir, a follow-up to the acclaimed You’re Not Doing It Right.... Read more

And Yet...

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.

For more than forty years, Christopher... Read more

Binge

By: Tyler Oakley

Narrated by: Tyler Oakley

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge, his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays.

For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to... Read more

Based on a True Story

By: Norm Macdonald

Narrated by: Norm Macdonald & Tim O'Halloran

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one... Read more

Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with... Read more

How to Ruin Everything

By: George Watsky

Narrated by: George Watsky

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical

Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing... Read more

Old Age

By: Michael Kinsley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."

The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it... Read more

It's Not Okay

By: Andi Dorfman

Narrated by: Andi Dorfman

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Andi Dorfman, the beloved finalist of season eighteen of The Bachelor who infamously rejected Juan Pablo and went on to star on season ten of The Bachelorette, dishes about what it’s like to live out a love story—and its collapse—in front of the cameras, offering hard-won advice for moving on after a break-up, public or not.

Andi talks candidly... Read more

In Memory of Bread

By: Paul Graham

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The funny, poignant memoir of one man’s struggle to come to terms with his celiac diagnosis, forcing him to reexamine his relationship with food.

When Paul Graham was suddenly diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of thirty-six, he was forced to say goodbye to traditional pasta, pizza, sandwiches, and more. Gone, too, were some of his favorite... Read more

Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave

By: Jill Kargman

Narrated by: Jill Kargman

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of Bravo’s breakout scripted comedy Odd Mom Out shares her razor-sharp wit and backhanded wisdom in a deeply observed and outrageously funny collection of musings, lists, essays, and outrages.
 
From her unique lingo (things don’t simply frighten her, they “M. Night Shyamalan her out”) to her gimlet-eyed view of narrow-mindedness, to... Read more

But What If We're Wrong?

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Chuck Klosterman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams?... Read more

Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

By: Dave Hill

Narrated by: Dave Hill

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really.

These days, Dave... Read more

A Brief History of Vice

By: Robert Evans

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.

Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern... Read more

The Wonder Trail

By: Steve Hely

Narrated by: Steve Hely

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.
 
The Wonder Trail is... Read more

Much Depends on Dinner

By: Margaret Visser

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Margaret Visser holds a doctorate in classics and appears frequently on television and radio shows. Much Depends on Dinner was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. As the subtitle suggests, here she uses the framework of a simple meal to show us how our food has... Read more

Dog Medicine

By: Julie Barton

Narrated by: Julie Barton

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman’s battle with depression and how her dog saved her life

A New York Times Bestseller

“Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read.” —Cheryl Strayed 

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed.... Read more

The Yarn Whisperer

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives.
—From the preface

In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on a Life in Knitting, renowned knitter and author Clara... Read more

Knitlandia

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. 
 
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to... Read more

Being a Beast

By: Charles Foster

Narrated by: Charles Foster

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal―by living like them

How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing... Read more

Thanks for the Money

By: Joel McHale

Narrated by: Joel McHale

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From actor and comedian Joel McHale comes the most important celebrity-penned book of this, or any, generation – Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be.
 
Part shocking tell-all memoir, part aspirational how-to guide, and mostly all book, this one-of-a-kind tome is required reading for anyone who... Read more