Essays audiobooks

The Science of Science Fiction

By: Mark Brake

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Media headlines declare this the age of automation. The TV talks about the coming revolution of the robot, tweets tell tales of jets that will ferry travelers to the edge of space, and social media reports that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. The science we do, the movies we watch, and the culture we consume... Read more

The Most Fun Thing

By: Kyle Beachy

Narrated by: Chris Mayers

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Southwest Review • Electric Literature

Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.

In... Read more

An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands.



Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the... Read more

The Long Slide

By: Tucker Carlson

Narrated by: Tucker Carlson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America’s long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.

Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly... Read more

Piglet

By: Melissa Shapiro

Narrated by: Melissa Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of the beloved New York Times bestsellers Marley and Me and Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, “a beautiful, inspiring” (Laura Schroff, New York Times bestselling author) memoir about empathy, resilience, kindness, and an adorable deaf blind pink dog.

When veterinarian Melissa Shapiro gets a call about a tiny deaf blind... Read more

Breakthrough

By: Marcus Chown

Narrated by: Marcus Chown

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'An excellent popular science book.' DARA Ó BRIAIN 'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.' ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman 'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have... Read more

눈표범

By: 실뱅 테송

Narrated by: 하지형

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

2019년 프랑스에서 가장 많이 팔린 책, 『눈표범 La panthère des neiges』, 2019년 10월 출간 즉시 파이널리스트 명단에 없던 르노도상 깜짝 수상! 『눈표범 La panthère des neiges』은 프랑스 문단을 뒤흔든 극한여행기로 저자 실뱅 테송이 동물 전문 사진작가 뱅상 뮈니에와 그의 연인인 다큐멘터리 감독, 그리고 친구이자 조수인 철학가와 함께 티벳에 서식하는 멸종동물, '눈표범'을 관찰하기 위해 해발 5,000미터 고지대의 대평원, '창탕'에서 보낸 생생한 기록이다. 이러한 그의 기록은 마침내 눈표범을 보느냐 마느냐를 넘어, 죽느냐 사느냐에 가까운 극한의 모험담이거나 생존기, 또는... Read more

The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 53 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals and books to thumbs,... Read more

Retorno a Atenas. La democracia como principio antioligárquico

By: José Luis Moreno Pestaña

Narrated by: Ricky Delgado

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué podemos aprender de la democracia griega? Esa fue la cuestión crucial que se hicieron lectores radicales como Foucault, Castoriadis o Rancière en la década de los años setenta. En un contexto de crisis, la vieja democracia ateniense se ofrecía como un marco privilegiado para pensar las posibilidades de la democracia, precisamente allí donde... Read more

La agonía del Eros

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

La proclamación neoliberal de la libertad se manifiesta en realidad como un imperativo paradójico: sé libre. Domina una economía de la supervivencia en la que cada uno es su propio empresario. El neoliberalismo, con sus desinhibidos impulsos narcisistas del yo y del rendimiento, es el infierno de lo igual, una sociedad de la depresión y el... Read more

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

By: Jenny Diski

Narrated by: Charlotte Randle & Chloe Diski

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski, read by Charlotte Randle and Chloe Diski.

A tonic for the soul ... I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal' Emilia Clarke

‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny’ Sunday... Read more

Aagomme Eegomme

By: Girish Karnad

Narrated by: Vikram Udaykumar

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಆಗಾಗ ಅಂದರೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿಧ ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕ-ಜರ್ನಲ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರೆದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು 'ಆಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಈಗೊಮ್ಮೆ' ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. 'ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ' ದಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು 'Fearless ನಾದಿಯಾ' ಚಿತ್ರಗಳವರೆಗೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯ ವರೆಗೆ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಬರಹಗಳು ಈ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿವೆ. ನಾಟ್ಯೋತ್ಪತ್ತಿ, ನಾಟ್ಯಧರ್ಮ, ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕಲೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ, ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನೇರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾತಿ ಸಂಘರ್ಷ, ಹೊಸ... Read more

Lecciones de estoicismo

By: John Sellars

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué nos enseñan los estoicos sobre cómo vivir? Un libro elegante y profundamente reconfortante que muestra por qué el estoicismo es la filosofía de nuestro tiempo. En los últimos tiempos se habla mucho de esta corriente, pero ¿cómo pensaban realmente sus miembros? John Sellars destila y entrelaza las ideas clave de los tres grandes estoicos... Read more

El catolicismo explicado a las ovejas

By: Juan Eslava Galán

Narrated by: Leopoldo Ballesteros

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

En este audiolibro Juan Eslava Galán nos ofrece un divertido acercamiento a la historia del catolicismo, dando respuesta a importantes cuestiones relacionadas con los textos bíblicos y la historia de las religiones. Una obra que ofrece clarividencia a las diversas creencias que han estado presentes en nuestra historia política, cultural y social. Read more

Alaska Traveler

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before Statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar-award winning mystery writer with over twenty-five Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows Alaska.



Writing for Alaska Magazine, she... Read more

The Storytellers

By: Mark Rubinstein

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance,...

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these... Read more

Mujeres valientes

By: Txell Feixas Torras

Narrated by: Yasmina Álvarez

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

En este lugar del mundo, en esa región que recorre de Oriente Medio a Afganistán, hay una revolución en marcha. Es la revolución de las mujeres. Una lucha sin cuartel ni final contra el patriarcado que domina la política, la cultura y la sociedad. A veces, esa lucha es por la mera supervivencia. Otras, una lucha consciente y organizada por... Read more

What Is a Dog?

By: Chloe Shaw

Narrated by: Cissy Jones

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of her family’s beloved dog’s death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in order to imagine the human she hopes to become in the future in her memoir, What Is a Dog?

Chloe Shaw is in a dog house of her own choosing. A married mother with kids, the death of Booker, her children’s eldest family pet, has left her reeling and... Read more

Orient-Express

By: Mauricio Wiesenthal

Narrated by: Sergio Bustos de la Tijera

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

El Orient-Express fue durante décadas el símbolo de una Europa diversa llena de diversos personajes, olores, colores y sabores, unidos por este tren que, más que un medio de transporte, fue una forma extraordinaria de civilización y entendimiento entre los pueblos. Mauricio Wiesenthal, con su prosa envolvente y fragante, nos transporta a países... Read more

La búsqueda de la felicidad

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Preguntarse por la naturaleza de la felicidad equivale a cuestionar el sentido y el fin de la existencia. La felicidad es una bu´squeda a lo largo de la vida de cada persona; la infelicidad, en cambio, es el abandono del deseo de seguir viviendo. Ma´s que una meta, la felicidad es un estado de a´nimo, el anhelo de una vida plena. No es objeto de... Read more

Elogio de la duda

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Fue Bertrand Russell quien dijo que la filosofía es siempre un ejercicio de escepticismo. Aprender a dudar implica distanciarse de lo dado y poner en cuestión los tópicos y los prejuicios, cuestionar lo incuestionable. No para rechazarlo sin más, sino para examinarlo, analizarlo, razonarlo y, por fin, decidir. Elogio de la duda recorre las... Read more

A sangre y fuego

By: Manuel Chaves Nogales

Narrated by: Carlos Alsina

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Los relatos que componen este libro están considerados por muchos como lo mejor que se ha escrito en España sobre nuestra guerra civil. Redactados entre 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales, retratan distintos sucesos de la guerra que Chaves Nogales conoció directamente: «Cada uno de sus episodios ha sido... Read more

Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

Narrated by: Sophia Benoit

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud funny” (Vogue) memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood—from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life’s constant double standards—perfect for fans of Shrill and PEN15.

Like so many women, Sophia... Read more

꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채

By: 박완서

Narrated by: 김두리

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

출간 25주년을 기념하여 새롭게 펴낸 애장본 증보판. 초판본(1977년) 책갈피의 주인공이었던 외아들 원태를 잃은 슬픔을 토로한 「내가 걸어온 길」등 90년대 전반부까지 쓴 글들을 추가하여 총 45편의 글을 엮었다. 표제작 「꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채」는 8쪽 분량의 글이지만 초판본 출간 당시 '꼴찌'에 대한 사회적 인식의 전환을 가져오는 계기가 되었던 글이며, 이번 증보판에 추가된 「내가 잃은 동산」에서는 그의 자전적 소설 『그 많던 싱아는 누가 다 먹었을까』가 쓰여지게 된 사연이 소개되기도 한다. 이 산문집의 각 글 발표연도를 참고하면서 저자가 20여 년 이상 체험하고 느낀 삶의 풍경과 세태를 음미하다보면 이... Read more