Essays audiobooks

I Shudder

By: Paul Rudnick

Narrated by: Paul Rudnick

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

I Shudder is a side-splittingly funny collection of essays from Paul Rudnick, one of America’s preeminent humorists. Rudnick, who writes for The New Yorker and has written the screenplays for the films In and Out, Sister Act, and Addams Family Values, shares his hilarious observations on life in New York City and New Jersey, the perils of show... Read more

Manhood for Amateurs

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving’s inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the... Read more

Double Take

By: Kevin Michael Connolly

Narrated by: Kevin Michael Connolly

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kevin Connolly has used an unusual physical circumstance to create a gripping work of art. This deeply affecting memoir will place him in the company of Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs.” — Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Charming … Connolly recounts growing up a scrappy Montana kid—one who happened to be born without legs...... Read more

The Bedwetter

By: Sarah Silverman

Narrated by: Sarah Silverman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne and star of the powerful 2015 film I Smile Back Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah’s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea... Read more

Furious Love

By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... Read more

The Professor and Other Writings

By: Terry Castle

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag From one of America’s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the... Read more

The Dead Beat

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Marilyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of... Read more

The Outsider

By: Jimmy Connors

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He... Read more

Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar

By: Kelly Oxford

Narrated by: Kelly Oxford

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Kelly Oxford is . . .A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-oldsNot the queen of the worldAn underage schnitzel-house dishwasherThe kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rushA born salesmanCapable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20That girl who peed her pants in the gas station... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Testaments Betrayed

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading."" —New York Times Book Review""Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread."" — Washington PostA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century’s... Read more

Train Tracks

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A marvelous storyteller.”
—The New Yorker“A blazing flamethrower of truth.”
—Ted Nugent, Washington TimesA #1 New York Times bestselling author and superstar radio personality, Michael Savage is admired by millions for his tough talk and no-punches-pulled common sense about the state of our union and its leaders. In Train Tracks, a more personal... Read more

Damn Yankees

By: Rob Fleder

Narrated by: George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Barbara Caruso & S...

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. More than an opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.
—From the IntroductionLove them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an American institution for nearly a century. With their rich history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never fail to inspire or provoke. In this... Read more

Dr. J

By: Julius Erving & Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: Julius Erving

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A terrific memoir by a man worthy of one.” — Sports IllustratedAn honest, unflinching self-portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses, which he describes here—from his own point of view—for the very first time.For most of his life, Julius Erving has... Read more

The New Rules for Blondes

By: Selena Coppock

Narrated by: Selena Coppock

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Writer, comedienne, and full-time Blonde, Selena Coppock offers up adventures, misadventures, and golden-hued nuggets of wisdom in a laugh-out-loud anthem for those of us who really do have more fun. . . .The modern blonde is savvy, wise, confident, capable, and not afraid to laugh at herself when the occasion calls for it. She knows who she is... Read more

Solo

By: Hope Solo

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise."Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S.... Read more

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

By: Nina Sankovitch

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and... Read more

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Ann Patchett

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book ReviewBlending literature and memoir, New... Read more

Molly's Game

By: Molly Bloom

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera—the true story of ""Hollywood’s poker princess"" who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all.Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the... Read more

Dirty Daddy

By: Bob Saget

Narrated by: Bob Saget

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House, and as the charming wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos. And then there are the legions of fans who can't get enough of his scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up routines, comedy specials, and outrageously... Read more

Tibetan Peach Pie

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier... Read more

Not My Father's Son

By: Alan Cumming

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

*Read by Alan Cumming himself*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun people... Read more

Bad Feminist

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.”  — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe •... Read more

All It Takes Is Guts

By: Walter E. Williams

Narrated by: Peter Kjenaas

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of Walter Williams' essays, drawn from his syndicated column. Williams writes with brilliant clarity—and he doesn't mince words. He destroys a number of prevailing myths, such as that economic and social disparities are the result of racism and that economic sanctions will help punish the South African blacks more that the... Read more