Essays audiobooks

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

Road to Nowhere

By: Chris Donnelly

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It... Read more

The View From Rat Lake

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.

"In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them are: 'remote trout lake,' 'fish up to thirteen pounds,' 'the place the guides fish on their days off,'"... Read more

Pleasure of Thinking

By: Wang Xiaobo

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.



Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and... Read more

Subterráneo

By: Will Hunt

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Una reflexión sobre nuestra atracción por la oscuridad, el poder del misterio y ese eterno deseo humano de conectar con lo que no podemos ver. Cuando Will Hunt tenía dieciséis años, descubrió un túnel abandonado que pasaba por debajo de su casa en Providence, Rhode Island. Sus primeras incursiones en él le inspiraron una incesante fascinación... Read more

ذئاب - Abridged

By: طلال الطويرقي

Narrated by: محمد نصر الله

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ذئاب شعر- طلال الطويرقي يتناول الشاعر الماضي وتفاصيله كما يتناول الحاضر وآلامه، مع الاهتمام بالصور الشعرية عبر ما تحتويه من دلالات تعطي النص قيمته العالية كما نرى في هذه الابيات: الان تتسع الغيوم لغينا والبحر للحدقات يا وله المسافر حين تكتمل العبارة دونما ذكرى و لذا سنترك كل شيء يافعاً للماء كيما يدرك الماضون وجهتنا و ننسى كل ماتركوا لنا. Read more

El Kybalion

By: Tres Iniciados

Narrated by: Elisabet Egea

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

El Kybalion es uno de los más importantes compendios de sabiduría de todos los tiempos, que explica los siete principios del hermetismo postulados por Hermes Trismegisto.
Mentalismo, correspondencia, vibración, polaridad, ritmo, causa efecto, y género.
La autoría se atrubuye a un grupo anónimo de personas autodenominado Los Tres Iniciados, y que... Read more

Deep Blue

By: Steve Backshall

Narrated by: Steve Backshall

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Take a deep breath

Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists and explorers has... Read more

Unreliable Narrator

By: Aparna Nancherla

Narrated by: Aparna Nancherla

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Yorker Best Books of 2023

NPR's Books We Love 2023

“A deeply honest and funny look at how exhausting it can be to live a human life, Unreliable Narrator is a book for anyone who wants to laugh and feel less alone.”—Amy Poehler  

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and out, by the... Read more

For the Culture

By: Klancy Miller

Narrated by: Klancy Miller, Ariel Blake, Susan Dalian, Janin...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as a pastry chef, recipe developer,... Read more

I'd Rather Not

By: Robert Skinner

Narrated by: Robert Skinner

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"A decidedly skewed, hilarious collection of life reflections and colorful storytelling." — Kirkus Reviews

An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairs

The unlikely story of how a failed dishwasher, tour guide,... Read more

حلاوة القهوة في مرارتها - Abridged

By: عبد الله المغلوث

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

حلاوة القهوة في المهرجان سألت رجلاً هندي الاصل: هل تريد يعضا من القهوة العربية؟ أجابني: بالطبع، فقد سمعت عنها كثيراً لكن للأسف لم يحالفني الحظ لأتذوقها، قلت: اليوم ستتذوقها من منبعها الأصلي، فهذه قهوة عربية خالصة، كنت متلهفا لمشاهدة رد فعله، لكنه فاجأني حينما قال: أريد بعض السكر، توقفت لبرهة لأستوعب و أنا أتسائل في نفسي، سكر وقهوة عربية!! قلت له... Read more

To Walk It Is To See It

By: Kathy Elkind

Narrated by: Kathy Elkind

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2018, Kathy Elkind and her husband decided to take a grown-up “gap year” in Europe and walk the 1,400-mile Grande Randonnée Cinq (GR5) across The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.At fifty-seven, Kathy has chosen comfort over hardship: she and Jim get to indulge in warm beds and delicious regional food every night and croissants in... Read more

On Purpose

By: Ben Hutchinson

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are... Read more

How to Butter Toast

By: Tara Wigley

Narrated by: Tara Wigley & Yotam Ottolenghi

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Butter Toast is the antidote to cookbook-overload. In this fun and entertaining recipe book without any recipes, Ottolenghi co-writer Tara Wigley equips you with rhymes and confidence to cook great food instinctively. Melted butter on hot toast and served up on a plate. ... Read more

How We Fish

By: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey

Narrated by: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids... Read more

Sing a Black Girl's Song

By: Ntozake Shange

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Wh...

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023

Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, curated by National Book Award winner Imani Perry with... Read more

Smart, Wrong, and Lucky

By: Jonathan Mayo

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the plainest of terms, baseball scouts are tasked with seeing the future—a distant future, at that. Baseball's long developmental arc leaves room for plenty of twists and turns on the way to The Show. Some prospects shoot like arrows toward their projected potential, while others fizzle out or chart an unexpected course.



Joey Votto was a... Read more

Oranges

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius). McPhee writes about the botany, history, and industry of oranges, from the great... Read more

Física y berenjenas

By: Andrés Gomberoff

Narrated by: Axel Cornelli

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Como una invitación a descubrir que la física y la matemática son materias cautivantes y no un mal recuerdo escolar, Andrés Gomberoff nos presenta este libro en el que todo lector podrá compartir el placer y la pasión por la ciencia
«No sé por qué las ciencias resultan tan poco atractivas, incluso intimidantes para tantos. Intuyo, sin... Read more

Hacer disidencia

By: Eric Sadin

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ante los continuos desengaños políticos, los nuevos modelos de sometimiento del neoliberalismo y la complicidad de nuestros dirigentes para que nada de esto cambie, el mayor reto que se nos presenta hoy en día es despertar de nuestro estado de parálisis y movilizar nuestras propias fuerzas. Hacer disidencia supone romper con muchos... Read more

Living My Best Life, Hun

By: London Hughes

Narrated by: London Hughes

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, and engage with your inner winner.

London Hughes has come a long way from secretly writing Frasier fan fiction alone in her bedroom. Between her... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

komplette Lesung des vierten Buches der Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Das vierte Buch des ersten Bandes des Klassikers "Ich gehöre zu den Lesern Schopenhauers", schrieb Friedrich Nietzsche, "welche, nachdem sie die erste Seite von ihm gelesen haben, mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass sie alle Seiten lesen und auf jedes Wort hören werden, das er... Read more

La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comunidades y nos salvan de la contingencia. Sin embargo, hoy, cuando todo se ha vuelto arbitrario y azaroso, el storytelling se ha convertido en un arma comercial que transforma la narración en una herramienta más del capitalismo, propagándose en medio... Read more