Essays audiobooks

The Matter of Black Lives

By: Jelani Cobb & David Remnick

Narrated by: JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, Maggi-M...

Length: 30 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private... Read more

India: A Wounded Civilization

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its... Read more

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?

With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable... Read more

Signs and Wonders

By: Delia Falconer

Narrated by: Delia Falconer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards.

Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review.

The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our... Read more

Los que sobran

By: Juan Carlos Florez

Narrated by: Juan Carlos Florez

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

En este ensayo global se ponen de presente temas de una actualidad apabullante. Los propagandistas de este capitalismo tardío nos quieren hacer creer que no tenemos alternativas para él, lo cual es un embuste visto desde la perspectiva histórica. Todo sistema, toda cultura, toda civilización ha tenido un fin y de sus propias entrañas ha surgido... Read more

¿Y ahora yo qué hago?

By: Andreu Escrivà

Narrated by: Álvaro Blazquez

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

De acuerdo, el cambio climático es el mayor reto al que nos enfrentamos en el siglo XXI. Lo hemos oído mil veces, ¿pero qué quiere decir eso? ¿Cómo tengo que actuar en medio de mensajes apocalípticos y culpabilizadores? ¿Por qué no hago nada cuando sé que debería hacerlo? ¿Sirve de algo que yo cambie si no cambia el sistema económico? ¿Qué tiene... Read more

Hört einander zu!

By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Wiebke Puls

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Gleichberechtigung, Demokratie und Zukunft! Elif Shafak, eine der bedeutendsten Stimmen für Gleichberechtigung und freiheitliche Werte in Europa, zeigt mit viel Einsicht Wege auf, wie wir Demokratie, Einfühlungsvermögen und unseren Glauben an eine bessere und weisere Zukunft fördern können. Ihr Ansatz: Wir müssen endlich anfangen, uns... Read more

What Is History, Now?

By: Suzannah Lipscomb & Helen Carr

Narrated by: Helen Carr, Peter Kenny, Sara Powell & Suzannah...

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and... Read more

Openhearted

By: Ann Ingle

Narrated by: Ann Ingle & Michael Ingle

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .'

At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met... Read more

El mundo prehispánico para gente con prisa

By: Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

«Una cuenta de Twitter quiere acabar con los mitos de la Historia de México», así describió El País a Enrique Ortiz, mejor conocido como Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, divulgador de la historia que revela los detalles más atrevidos y los hechos más increíbles de la cultura que habitó el Valle de México y que se transformó radicalmente después de la... Read more

My Sh*t Therapist

By: Michelle Thomas

Narrated by: Michelle Thomas

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking, heart-rending, and blisteringly funny account of what it's like to live with mental illness, by a powerful new comic voice.



When Michelle Thomas suffered her first major depressive episode six years ago, she read and watched and listened to everything about mental health she could get her hands on in an effort to fix herself. God, it... Read more

El expolio nazi

By: Miguel Martorell

Narrated by: Juan Miguel Díez

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Han pasado más de setenta y cinco años desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y no hay semana que no aparezca alguna noticia sobre reclamaciones de las víctimas del expolio nazi o sus descendientes, a estados o museos de todo el planeta, para recobrar las obras de arte robadas durante la contienda. ¿Cómo llevó a cabo el Tercer Reich este... Read more

My Naked Spa in Japan

By: Hidemi Woods

Narrated by: Hidemi Woods

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Slipper Battle About ten months ago, a middle-aged woman complained to me about my slippers at the communal spa of my apartment building. She wanted me to take them off and stay barefoot in the locker room because everyone except for me was barefooted there as a custom.I refused as being barefoot wasn’t an official rule and I felt much more... Read more

A Nation of Women

By: Luisa Capetillo

Narrated by: Melanie Martinez & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo

A Penguin Classic

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern... Read more

Make Good the Promises

By: Kinshasha Holman Conwill & Paul Gardullo

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewAn incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the... Read more

808s & Otherworlds

By: Sean Avery Medlin

Narrated by: Sean Avery Medlin

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"September’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" —Lambda Literary
"Most-Anticipated New LGBTQIA+ Books of 2021" —Paperback Paris"An elegant mash of memoir, poetry, tales of appropriation, thoughts on Black masculinity, Hulk, Kanye." —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean... Read more

Richard Wagamese Selected

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writingsRichard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.Following the... Read more

Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: Abbie Hoffman

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Christine Marshall

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Still Notorious, Radical, and Revolutionary 50 Years Later.
A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century—now with a new foreword by co-conspirator, Lisa Fithian.
 
Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America—some illegal and all... Read more

Contra el fascismo

By: Umberto Eco

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente. «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y... Read more

This Is Basic Sh*t

By: Kenya Barris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the creator of the award-winning TV series black-ish comes a collection of personal, hilarious, and provocative essays on what it's like to be black in America today.

In THIS IS BASIC SH*T, Kenya Barris uses his own personal stories to talk about race and class with the fierceness and humor that fans will recognize from black-ish. It will... Read more

The Passenger

By: Chaney Kwak

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated... Read more

The Scandal of the Century, and Other Writings

By: Gabriel García Márquez & Cristóbal Pera

Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s—work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction.“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel... Read more

Windswept

By: Annabel Abbs

Narrated by: Fenella Fudge

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves, including Georgia O’Keeffe in the empty plains of... Read more

Thunder Dog

By: Michael Hingson

Narrated by: Christopher Prince

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, Thunder Dog tells the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the life-changing power of faith and trust in the face of terror.When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and... Read more