Essays audiobooks

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog - 34 Stories about Overcoming Adversity, Healing, and How to Say Goodbye

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years, dogs have been cherished as devoted companions and exuberant playmates—their unconditional love, limitless affection and unwavering loyalty never fail to melt our hearts. The stories in Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul truly capture the special joy these four-legged creatures bring to our lives and hearts. The... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog - 36 Stories about Putting Things in Perspective, Kindness, and Unconditional Love

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

36 Stories about Putting Things in Perspective, Kindness, and Unconditional LoveLearning to Put Things in Perspective Learning to Be Kinder Learning About Unconditional Love Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 31 Stories about Who's in Charge, How to Love a Cat, and Be Your Best

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories about Who's in Charge, How to Love a Cat, and Be Your BestLearning Who's in Charge Learning to Love the Cat Learning to Be My Best Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting Help

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting HelpLearning to Laugh Learning to Accept Help Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and Belief

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and BeliefLearning to Play Learning What's Important Learning to Believe Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Love and Letting Go

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

20 Stories about Love and Letting GoLearning About Love Learning to Let Go Read more

Familyhood

By: Paul Reiser

Narrated by: Paul Reiser

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the number one New York Times bestseller Couplehood, Paul Reiser wrote about the highs and lows of falling in love and getting married—and the heartbreak and hilarity that comes with it. In Babyhood, he turned his sharply observant eye to the experiences of having a brand-new family. And now in Familyhood, Reiser shares his observations on... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Cats have always been wonderful companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also amazing teachers. In this audiobook, cat lovers, both lifelong and reluctant, share what they have learned from their furry companions. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat will delight listeners with humorous,... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dogs have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our canine friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. In this audiobook, dog lovers share what they have learned from our greatest heroes and healers. Chicken Soup... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen & Joyce Bean

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Redefining the classic essay, this modern edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most famous work, Self-Reliance, includes self-reflections from both historical and contemporary luminaries. With quotes from the likes of Henry Ford and Helen Keller to modern-day thought leaders like Jesse Dylan, Steve Pressfield, and Milton Glaser, we’re reminded of... Read more

The Complete Essays of Montaigne

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 49 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself—the... Read more

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Buy the ticket, take the ride,” was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary home.Jann S. Wenner, the outlaw journalist’s friend and editor for nearly thirty-five years, has... Read more

Doc

By: Dwight Gooden & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time.With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off of it,... Read more

The Longest Way Home

By: Andrew McCarthy

Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years—and with no clear understanding of what’s holding him back—Andrew McCarthy finds himself at a crossroads, plagued by doubts that have clung to him for a lifetime. Something in his character has kept him always at a distance, preventing him from giving himself wholeheartedly to the woman he... Read more

How I Slept My Way to the Middle

By: Kevin Pollak

Narrated by: Kevin Pollak

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, he’s a killer impressionist—Falk, Shatner, Walken, Nicholson—a versatile actor with one of the most respected filmographies around, and an Internet... Read more

Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!

By: Penn Jillette

Narrated by: Penn Jillette

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Let’s be honest—nobody has more fun than atheists. Don’t believe it? Well, consider this: For nonbelievers, every day you’re alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette—the larger, louder half of legendary magic duo Penn & Teller—whose spectacularly witty and sharply observant essays in Every Day... Read more

The Joker

By: Andrew Hudgins

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself—what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins’s father, a West Point... Read more

My Planet

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this audiobook features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage,... Read more

Sister Mother Husband Dog

By: Delia Ephron

Narrated by: Meg Ryan

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, writing, movies, and family. In “Sister,” she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship with her older sister and frequent writing companion, Nora.... Read more

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having

By: Edith Zimmerman, Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, ...

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless... Read more

Alexanderplatz, Berlin

By: Georg Diez

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more

The Givenness of Things

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
One of TIME magazine's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies... Read more

Mind of an Outlaw

By: Norman Mailer

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 22 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s most important and representative work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying.As America’s foremost public... Read more

The Big Empty

By: Norman Mailer & John Buffalo Mailer

Narrated by: John Buffalo Mailer & Stephen Mailer

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Questions are posed,” writes Norman Mailer, “in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions.” In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American... Read more