Essays audiobooks

Enseres para sobrevivir en la ciudad

By: Vicente Quirarte

Narrated by: Raul Carballeda

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay objetos que a fuerza de costumbre y de uso terminan por convertirse en seres, a veces más vivos que nosotros, como el paraguas, la pluma, el portafolios. Este libro reúne crónicas sobre estos enseres que pertenecen al ejercicio de la ciudad, a la cotidiana odisea que llevamos a cabo en ella. Read more

Ciertas personas de cuatro patas

By: Rafael Baena

Narrated by: Bobby Sanchez

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Reportero y fotógrafo de profesión, a sus cincuenta años Rafael Baena publicó su primera novela, Tanta sangre vista, en la que los caballos y la caballería son tan significativos como en ¡Vuelvan caras, carajo! o en La bala vendida. Las razones para que ello haya sido así están explicadas en esta crónica en tono personal escrita para Luna Libros. Read more

Barbarie y civilización - 2da edición. Sangre, monstruos y vampiros durante el segundo gobierno de Rosas

By: Gabo Ferro

Narrated by: Pablo Manelli

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabo Ferro analiza en profundidad el imaginario rioplatense de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Monstruos, vampiros y sobre todo la sangre como principal metáfora política utilizada por Rosas y por sus opositores. El Plata enrojece, se inunda de sangre que tiñe, real y simbólicamente el agua, la ropa, las palabras, los distintos espacios públicos... Read more

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Ungekürzt)

By: Fatma Aydemir & Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

Narrated by: Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Simone D...

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie fühlt es sich an, tagtäglich als "Bedrohung" wahrgenommen zu werden? Wie viel Vertrauen besteht nach dem NSU-Skandal noch in die Sicherheitsbehörden? Was bedeutet es, sich bei jeder Krise im Namen des gesamten Heimatlandes oder der Religionszugehörigkeit der Eltern rechtfertigen zu müssen? Und wie wirkt sich Rassismus auf die Sexualität aus?... Read more

Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny

By: Limmy

Narrated by: Limmy

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today. Hello! I’m Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy’s Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don’t worry if you don’t. They asked me to write a book about... Read more

Animal Matters

By: Charlotte Rea

Narrated by: Heather Long

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Animals bond people and transcend class, financial and cultural barriers, pets matter to people more than anything, but what happens to those people who can't afford pet insurance or vet's bills.

Animal Matters is a diary of real-life cases written during a year of Charlotte's career working as a veterinary surgeon in a 24-hour inner-city London... Read more

It's Not About the Burqa

By: Mariam Khan

Narrated by: Afshan D'souza-Lodhi, Amna Saleem, Coco Khan, J...

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the full cast of authors

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?

Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year

'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' – Observer

In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional... Read more

In Putin's Footsteps

By: Nina Khrushcheva & Jeffrey Tayler

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the... Read more

Off the Rails

By: Beppe Severgnini

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity.

"I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more... Read more

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

By: Gloria Steinem

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Gabra Zackman, Gloria Steinem, ...

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"...powerful and necessary inspiration for the contemporary listener." — AudioFile Magazine

An updated, third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword written by Emma Watson, and new material written and read by Gloria Steinem.

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half... Read more

The Source of Self-Regard

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).

These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of... Read more

The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric... Read more

On Being 40(ish)

By: Lindsey Mead

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Madeleine Maby, Soneela Nankani...

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fifteen powerful women and writers you know and love—from the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, and The Atlantic—offer captivating, intimate, and candid explorations about what it’s really like turning forty—and that the best is yet to come.

The big 4-0. Like eighteen and twenty-one, this is a major and meaningful... Read more

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.

“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead

“What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that... Read more

Brown White Black

By: Nishta J. Mehra

Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance.

Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily... Read more

The Land of Little Rain

By: Mary Austin

Narrated by: Ellen Parker

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1903, The Land of Little Rain is Mary Austin's classic homage to the American Southwest. Her collection of short stories and essays takes readers on an enchanted journey through Death Valley, the High Sierras, and the Mojave Desert. This first-ever audiobook edition is read by Emmy Award-winning actress, Ellen Parker, and... Read more

Eureka

By: Graham Field

Narrated by: Graham Field

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a hard roadEspecially on an old bike and with little money, but harder still is resisting the urge to ride. This is a journey of thrill and despair as the author heads into heavily armed Iraq, barely unable to escape the overwhelming hospitality and humbling generosity.On the verge of discoveryUreka is an almost accidental realisation that... Read more

Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard

Narrated by: Emily Bernard

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” 

In these twelve deeply personal, connected... Read more

At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Proving that fishing is not just a part-time pursuit, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman takes us through a year with America's favorite fishing scribe, John Gierach, who dedicates himself to his... Read more

Dancing at the Edge of the World

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos—in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.Le Guin... Read more

Taste and See

By: Margaret Feinberg

Narrated by: Margaret Feinberg

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Margaret Feinberg, one of America's most beloved teachers and writers, as she sets out on a remarkable journey to unearth God's perspective on food. What you discover will forever change the way you read the Bible--and approach every meal. This groundbreaking book provides a culinary exploration of Scripture. You'll descend 400 feet below... Read more

Bookends

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon & George Newbern

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a... Read more

Paseos por Londres

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cristina Rubio

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Entre el cuaderno de viajes, el ensayo literario, el diario personal y la crónica urbana, el autor nos muestra su fascinación por el turbulento y espléndido pasado de Budapest. De la barbarie a la civilización, de la sabiduría de Marco Aurelio a la gran narrativa magiar contemporánea, este recorrido por las huellas de la memoria atiende también... Read more

Variaciones sobre Budapest

By: Sergi Bellver

Narrated by: Antonio Galeano

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Entre el cuaderno de viajes, el ensayo literario, el diario personal y la crónica urbana, el autor nos muestra su fascinación por el turbulento y espléndido pasado de Budapest. De la barbarie a la civilización, de la sabiduría de Marco Aurelio a la gran narrativa magiar contemporánea, este recorrido por las huellas de la memoria atiende también... Read more