Essays audiobooks

The Upstairs Delicatessen

By: Dwight Garner

Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies.



Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of... Read more

The Wonderful World of James Herriot

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Anna Madeley, Nicholas Ralph & Rosie Page

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"This collection gives listeners a peek into Herriot’s life, tracing parallels between his time on rural homesteads and his well-loved tales, and inviting listeners to sit back, relax and reminisce about more peaceful times."—BookPage

This audiobook is read by Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley, stars of the PBS Masterpiece television series All... Read more

A Memoir of My Former Self

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, B...

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFile

THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life... Read more

A Brief History of Intelligence

By: Max Bennett

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can... Read more

My Venice and Other Essays

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Insightful essays on Italy and the arts from the New York Times bestselling authorDonna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have often been praised for their insight into culture, politics, family life, and the history of Venice, one of the world’s most treasured cities and her home for over thirty years. My... Read more

Un mundo asombroso

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Lía Gómez

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Crónica de una sensibilidad estética y una reflexión lírica acerca de la belleza de todo lo que nos rodea. La poeta Aimee Nezhukumatathil nos sorprende con una colección de ensayos sobre el mundo natural donde nos revela cómo los animales y las plantas pueden enseñarnos e inspirarnos. De niña, Aimee vivió en distintos lugares: Kansas, Arizona,... Read more

Ñamérica

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 30 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*Prix Roger Caillois 2023* *Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* La crónica definitiva de un territorio inacabable: Hispanoamérica. Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupaciones y esperanzas. La conocemos mal;... Read more

La democracia ausente

By: Roger Bartra

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuarta edición, corregida y aumentada, de esta reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana. A más de treinta y cinco años de su publicación, la presente obra se ha convertido en una reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana y de lo que entonces,... Read more

Touch the Future

By: John Lee Clark

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch.



Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an... Read more

Legitimate Kid

By: Aida Rodriguez

Narrated by: Aida Rodriguez

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Aida Rodriguez is part of the next wave of talented comedic storytellers that I dreamt about when I was trying to break down barriers in the industry. Besides being a fierce Latina powerhouse, she’s FUNNY AS HELL! So buy this book. No really, BUY THIS BOOK!!! I don’t want any problems, ya heard?!”—John Leguizamo, Emmy and Tony Award–winning... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

By: Carl Zimmer & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, ...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction.... Read more

The Dish

By: Andrew Friedman

Narrated by: Michael Lomonaco

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story."" —Wall Street JournalAcclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern... Read more

The Best American Food Writing 2023

By: Mark Bittman & Silvia Killingsworth

Narrated by: Elyse Dinh, Will Tulin, Carolina Hoyos, Dylan M...

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

""Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food’s sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It’s a standout addition to the series."" —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook... Read more

Funny You Should Say That

By: Gerry Dee

Narrated by: Michael Neeb

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Canada’s top comedians shares the funniest stories from his life and career in this collection of hilarious essaysFor more than two decades, Gerry Dee has made audiences laugh, first as a hard-working stand-up comedian, and then as the star of his own CBC television program, Mr. D. Dee became a physical education teacher, thinking he... Read more

The Best American Essays 2023

By: Vivian Gornick & Robert Atwan

Narrated by: Will Tulin, Marie Hoffman, Elena Rey, Elyse Din...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves... Read more

Baseball

By: Steven P. Gietschier

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball explores the history of organized baseball during the mid-twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded.... Read more

Food of the Cods

By: Daniel Gray

Narrated by: George Reid

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for Debut Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2024 Guild of Food Writers 2024 Finalist, Food Book of the Year ‘A lyrical, amiable and educational celebration of what may be our greatest achievement: the chippy.’ Stuart Maconie Step inside and... Read more

Schambereich - Über Sex sprechen (ungekürzt)

By: Christine Koschmieder

Narrated by: Christine Koschmieder

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Exkursion ins Sumpfgebiet unserer Seele Nach dem Erfolg von "Dry" schreibt Christine Koschmieder über Sex und Intimität. Persönlich, mutig und lustig erkundet sie die Körpererfahrungen, die sie und andere Frauen im Lauf ihres Lebens gemacht haben. Gerade hat sie die Suchtklinik verlassen, da steht Christine Koschmieder vor einer neuen... Read more

Abroad in Japan

By: Chris Broad

Narrated by: Chris Broad

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and... Read more

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

By: Devrie Brynn Donalson

Narrated by: Devrie Brynn Donalson

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A refreshingly honest, wonderfully humorous, and entirely inspiring exploration of change, fear, and what it really means to be alone, from everyone’s favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson.Dear Reader Just Doing Your Best,Give me a minute, and I’ll tell you a story. I’ll tell you about my junior high soulmate, my haunted house, and running... Read more

I've Been Thinking...

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett’s answers have profoundly shaped our age of... Read more

Fräulein Draußens Gespür für Wildnis

By: Kathrin Heckmann

Narrated by: Henriette Schreurs

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

»Kathrin Heckmann ist es gelungen, abstrakte Vorstellungen von Wildnis durch persönliche und lebendige Schilderungen zu bereichern. Das macht Mut und inspiriert.« Thorsten Hoyer, Chefredakteur Wandermagazin Die Sehnsucht nach Wildnis zog Kathrin Heckmann alias Fräulein Draußen jahrelang raus in die Welt. Aber muss man wirklich weit reisen, um... Read more

Cocorico

By: Mickaël Bergeron

Narrated by: Mickaël Bergeron

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Mickaël Bergeron nous arrive avec un cri de ralliement pour ses semblables, dans lequel il plaide pour un véritable leadership au sein de la masculinité, qui contribuerait à remettre en question des normes, comportements et politiques sociales. Il estime que les féministes se tapent tout le boulot et que les hommes ne font pas leur part. Une... Read more

Cake

By: Andrew Baker

Narrated by: Andrew Baker

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.’ PRUE LEITH The British take cakes seriously. We hold strong opinions about how to bake a brownie with the perfect squidge, the correct proportions of icing to sponge, and whether it’s jam or cream first on... Read more