Essays audiobooks

Keder Üzerine - Abridged

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Dilek Gürel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Keder zalim bir eğitim türü. Yas tutmanın ne kadar kaba, ne kadar öfke dolu olabileceğini öğreniyorsunuz kederliyken. Düşünmeden söylenen başsağlığı dileklerinin nasıl hissettirebileceğini öğreniyorsunuz. Babasının ölümünün ardından yazan Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, kayıpla derin bir hesaplaşmaya giriyor. Babasının ölüm haberini izleyen günleri... Read more

Bill Nye: Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

By: Bill Nye

Narrated by: philip chenevert

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected into books. This is a selection of just 35 of the most humorous, wry and downright funny... Read more

Die Zukunft der Wahrheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Werner Herzog

Narrated by: Werner Herzog

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Der große Erzähler Werner Herzog fragt nach der seltsamsten aller Erzählungen: der von der Wahrheit. Was ist wahr? In einer Welt, die durch Fake News, politische Manipulation und künstliche Intelligenz verunsichert ist, die auf kalte Fakten setzt und doch die Poesie und den Film erfunden hat, muss Wahrheit mehr als bloß stumpfe Empirie bedeuten.... Read more

Göteborg

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - GÖTEBORGStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta... Read more

El arte del gobierno

By: Ugo Pipitone

Narrated by: Rafa Blásquez

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Una mirada a tres pensadores políticos del pasado en busca de claves para renovar el presente y recuperar el futuro. Vivimos un momento en la historia peligrosamente inédito. El crecimiento económico desigual y desproporcionado ha ocasionado una catastrófica corrosión del medio ambiente y una aguda polarización social. Amplios sectores de la... Read more

The Backwoods of Everywhere

By: R. E. Burrillo

Narrated by: Kyle Burrow

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout personal essays spiked with humor and natural science, archaeologist R. E. Burrillo widens his range beyond his popular Behind the Bears Ears.

After an upstate New York childhood and a bartending stint in New Orleans's French Quarter, seasonal resort work led R. E. Burrillo to the desert Southwest, whose redrock landscapes were a... Read more

The Lede

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin

“The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes... Read more

Jönköping

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - JÖNKÖPINGStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta... Read more

Helsingborg

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - HELSINGBORGStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta... Read more

Västerås

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - VÄSTERÅSStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta... Read more

Duplex

By: Mike Nagel

Narrated by: Tim Heidecker

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

By: Shayla Lawson

Narrated by: Shayla Lawson

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more

I'll Just Be Five More Minutes

By: Emily Farris

Narrated by: Emily Farris

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35
 
Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she saw it, disorganization was one of her countless character flaws—that... Read more

Dinner on Monster Island

By: Tania De Rozario

Narrated by: Tania De Rozario

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different.Tania De... Read more

People Who Lunch

By: Sally Olds

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism—only to end up living comfortably alongside it

What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal... Read more

Stranded

By: Maddalena Bearzi

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marooned in LA by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard.



Conservationist and marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi made her career studying the wild creatures of the deep, but when COVID-19 made landfall on the California coast this seafaring scientist found herself shuttered up... Read more

Why We Read

By: Shannon Reed

Narrated by: Paige McKinney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist

We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more

Crossing America

By: Jonas Deichmann, Martin Waller & Carsten Polzin

Narrated by: Jonas Baeck

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Das neue Abenteuer des "deutschen Forrest Gump". Bei 45 Grad durch die Mojave-Wüste. Über fast 4000 Meter hohe Gebirgspässe in den Rocky Mountains. Mitten durch die Häuserschluchten von Millionenmetropolen. Und hunderte Kilometer entlang endloser Maisfelder in Nebraska. Dieser Herausforderung stellt sich Extremsportler Jonas Deichmann. Quer... Read more

Atlas Linguae: The Layers Of Language Behind Everyday Life

By: Studio Ochenta

Narrated by: Luis López

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does a McDonald's slogan, no matter the language, make you want to buy their product? Is that subtitled movie you just watched truly better than the dubbed one? How do we communicate gender-neutral pronouns? And, most importantly... Are you sure you sent the right emoji just now? From the hit language podcast produced by Studio Ochenta comes... Read more

Passports and Pacifiers

By: Kaitlyn Jain

Narrated by: Kaitlyn Jain

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“A parenting memoir and travel guide that will inspire families to have new experiences.” — Kirkus Reviews “Conversational, lively, humorous... Enjoyable and memorable.” — The BookLife PrizeThe true story of two crazy parents traveling with four small children…on a budgetFollow a young, naïve baby-wearing family as they travel around the world.... Read more

Does My Dog Love Me?

By: Graeme Hall

Narrated by: Graeme Hall

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?

Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling?

In his... Read more

The Forgotten Chef

By: Phil D. May

Narrated by: Brad Derry

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a transformative culinary journey with "The Forgotten Chef," by Phil D. May narrated by Brad Derry, after three decades navigating his own food odyssey, invites listeners to explore their unique culinary path. This audiobook serves as a mentor, challenging and guiding a new generation of chefs to understand their passion for... Read more

Looking Up

By: Casey Roman

Narrated by: Casey Roman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Losing her TV news career and her home in the same year wasn’t on Casey Roman’s 2018 Bingo card. Neither was sleeping in Walmart parking lots and nearly deciding to end her own life. But the world is full of blind curves, and salvation comes in unusual forms, like a cargo van. What began as a three-week road trip to erase her “news lady” image... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Band 2

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Schopenhauer - Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Band 2 – Die Ergänzungen zum ersten Buch Mit ebenso großer Klarheit und Eleganz wie im 1. Band seines Hauptwerks setzt Arthur Schopenhauer nun auch im 2. Band von "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" seine pessimistisch-voluntaristische Metaphysik des Lebens fort, wobei er, direkt Bezug... Read more