Essays audiobooks

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door

By: Gordon S. Jackson

Narrated by: Matthew Stuart Jackson

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door is a compilation of 101 original and thought-provoking analogies and parables that serve as devotionals or illustrations for the more mature Christian. Each entry's originality provides the reader with fresh insights into his or her faith.The entries, drawn from topics like sports, politics, science and nature,... Read more

El gran corruptor

By: Elena Chávez

Narrated by: Karina Castillo

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

«Estas son páginas notables por su contenido explosivo y revelador, y una radiografía de la metástasis de ese cáncer alimentado por el gran corruptor.» —Sergio Negrete Cárdenas Tras el éxito de El rey del cash, Elena Chávez nos sumerge una vez más en las entrañas de un sistema político donde la corrupción parece haberse convertido en la norma. A... Read more

We Are All Armenian

By: Aram Mrjoian

Narrated by: MW Cartozian Wilson & Katiana Sarkissian

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora.



In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and their descendants have written of a vast range of experiences using storytelling and activism, two important aspects of Armenian culture. Wrestling with questions of home and self, diasporan Armenian... Read more

Songs on Endless Repeat

By: Anthony Veasna So

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late... Read more

What Really Happens in Vegas

By: James Patterson & Mark Seal

Narrated by: Phil Morris

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through “lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus).

“Wild and wonderful…The magic of Sin City doesn’t just happen. Patterson and Seal tell its secrets in beautifully presented snippets that often overlap not just... Read more

Essays

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"George Orwell (1903-50) is known around the world for his satirical novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he was arguably at his best in the essay form. Below, we've selected and introduced ten of Orwell's best essays for the interested newcomer to his non-fiction, but there are many more we could have added.... Read more

Ciudad Presidio

By: Santiago Gamboa

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ciudad Presidio es una clara demostración de que el derecho a la lectura y la escritura es, ante todo, pura potencia de afirmación de la vida, puro combate cuerpo a cuerpo contra la muerte". Mario Mendoza Este es el audiolibro más personal de Santiago Gamboa. Realizado durante casi tres años, contiene una serie de reflexiones honestas y... Read more

Seniors' Stories Volume 9

By: NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Narrated by: Rowena Robinson, Janine Penfold & David Tredinnick

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Volume 9 of Seniors' Stories displaying the thoughts, emotions, lifestyles, pleasures, disappointments, elation, sadness, and every emotion we have been willing to share of the exciting age group known in Australia as our Seniors. No longer are we invisible, we are an integral part of Society’s woven cloth of generations. Many of the... Read more

Malleable Forms

By: Meeka Walsh

Narrated by: Meeka Walsh

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For 30 years Meeka Walsh has been the Editor of the Canadian art magazine, Border Crossings. A selection of her much-admired essays published in each issue of that magazine have been selected for this substantial book. “Kim Gordon: Star Turns” examines the memoir of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon takes the reader on a trip that includes... Read more

This Won't Help

By: Eli Grober

Narrated by: Eli Grober

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Part catharsis, part diagnosis, this divinely wry collection from New Yorker and McSweeney's satirist Eli Grober will strike a chord with those who are dismayed by the chaos of our times. None of it will help—but a few good laughs won't hurt. Probably.



There's a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don't worry. It will end. This... Read more

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six... Read more

Party Like It's 2044

By: Joni B. Cole

Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Joni B. Cole worries that Vlad the Impaler may be a distant cousin. She feuds with a dead medium. She thinks (or overthinks) about insulting birthday cards, power trips, and the real reason writers hate Amazon. And she wishes, really wishes, all those well-meaning people would stop talking about Guatemala. At once irreverent and thought... Read more

The Loneliness Files

By: Athena Dixon

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness.



Living alone as a middle-aged woman without... Read more

A Left-Handed Woman

By: Judith Thurman

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY



A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award–winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.



Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed... Read more

Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa (Taberna Kamogawa 1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

La novela más apetitosa que escucharás jamás. Una historia deliciosa que combina misterios y cocina y que triunfa en Japón y en todo el mundo. Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa es una de las novelas más apetitosas que vas a escuchar jamás. Una historia llena de ternura sobre una pareja de detectives formada por el padre y la hija del Kamogawa... Read more

Historiska händelser från världen över

By: Orage

Narrated by: Håkan Mohede, Kim Rhedin Hüttner & Sofia Watts

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Historiska händelser från världen över" är en serie skildringar av händelser som på olika sätt lämnat stora avtryck i historien. Samlingen består av kortare artiklar och reportage, tidigare utgivna som enskilda titlar, och ger inblick i några av historiens mest omtalade företeelser. För 170 år sedan lämnar Donnergruppen Springfield i hopp om... Read more

La ciencia de contar historias

By: Will Storr & Olga Abasolo (Translator)

Narrated by: Jaime Collepardo

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Las historias moldean lo que somos, desde nuestro carácter hasta nuestra identidad cultural, nos impulsan a realizar nuestros sueños y ambiciones y dan forma a nuestra política y nuestras creencias. Las utilizamos para construir nuestras relaciones, para mantener el orden en nuestros tribunales, para interpretar los acontecimientos en nuestros... Read more

Pärskeitä: kertomuksia pääkallolippujen varjosta

By: Juha Lehtonen

Narrated by: Antti Jaakola

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jatko-osa pitkän linjan merikapteenin rakastetuille muistelmille vie lukijan takaisin seitsemälle merelle. Juha Lehtonen jatkaa suuren suosion saaneen muistelmateoksensa Ristiaallokossa tarinaa. Tällä kertaa matka kulkee kaukaisille merille, joita kiertävät myös nykypäivän merirosvot. Lehtonen kertoo elävästi väkivaltaisen kaappauksen vaarasta,... Read more

Justicia Global

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Irene Machado, Gustavo Dardes & Ignacio Rodrígu...

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A Spanish-language edition of three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.

In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist... Read more

A Bird on My Windowsill

By: Manav Kaul

Narrated by: Luke Kenny

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Manav’s world, memories are like little birds perched upon the windowsill of time. In his world there are no boundaries between thoughts and reality. In his world the past and the present form a mirror that disintegrates into the memory of a single day…Known for writing silences and articulating dreams, in this book Manav sifts through the... Read more

After the Dance

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Edwidge Danticat

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart.

Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too... Read more

Les marins pêcheurs face aux éoliennes

By: Michel Adrien

Narrated by: Vincent Siméon

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Michel Adrien est un marin pêcheur concerné par l'avenir de sa profession. Dans ce nouvel essai, il s'intéresse de près à l'éolien marin, au cœur des préoccupations de tout un secteur d'activité.Il aborde les innovations en marche et nous dévoile comment la mer pourra être partagée, dans l'objectif de sortir du réchauffement climatique grâce à... Read more

The Explorers Club

By: The Explorers Club

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers.

The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the... Read more

The Pine Barrens

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.



The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the... Read more