Essays audiobooks

Eat It Anyway

By: Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison

Narrated by: Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison, Laura Kirman & ...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.' - Virginia Woolf.

The definition of 'healthy eating' has been chewed up, spat out and re-digested enough times to make Joe Public give up and seek out their nearest branch of McDonald's. Our mindless obsession with eating 'right' is such that we're now more concerned about... Read more

My Life Among the Underdogs

By: Tia Torres

Narrated by: Tia Torres

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planets hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her... Read more

Self Deception : India's China Policies

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Simalaya

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all warnings in Tibet and our entire border? What did he do when those assumptions proved wrong? What eventually led to the debacle of 1962? Are the same... Read more

Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions

By: Tammy Billups

Narrated by: Henrietta Weekes

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to understanding the profound connection in animal/human relationships and its potential for mutual healing

• 2020 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award

• Explains the unspoken connection between people and their animal companions and how they share the same energetic patterns and emotional wounds

• Outlines specific behavioral... Read more

The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for... Read more

En el barco de Ise. Viaje literario por Japón

By: Suso Mourelo

Narrated by: Aníbal Soto

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Suso Mourelo recorre Japón con brújula literaria. Desde grandes ciudades a tranquilos enclaves rurales, el objetivo es conocer los lugares donde transcurrieron las novelas de sus autores preferidos: el Tokio del escritor maldito Osamu Dazai o la pequeña isla de Kamishima que sirvió de inspiración a Yukio Mishima; el Kioto de las historias... Read more

كمين القصر العيني

By: عمر طاهر

Narrated by: محمد العربي

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

مع بداية الثورة المصرية ونزول الشباب إلى ميدان التحرير دأب "عمر طاهر" على كتابة مقالاته اليومية والأسبوعية متحدثًا عن الوضع العام، عن الشباب، عن الأمل القادم، عن الوضع السياسي وناقدًا للكثير من الأحداث في تلك الفترة لم يخطر ببال "عمر طاهر" أنّ مقالاته ستجتمع في كتاب لتكون مرجعًا لجيلٍ بأكمله عن ثورةٍ مستمرة.. "كمين القصر العيني" هو أرشيف كامل... Read more

Still Life with Brook Trout

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 58 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 Still Life with Brook Trout, John Gierach demonstrates once again that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport.



Gierach travels to Wyoming and Maine and points in between,... Read more

A Dynamic God

By: Nancy Mairs

Narrated by: Vicki Summers-Christopher

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

God doesn't saunter in once for all and settle like a large cat plumping herself into your favorite rocker with an air that says, "Here I am! Now your life is complete!" God dances beyond the threshold and must continually be enticed into our dwelling. I hope these essays remind us all to extend that invitation, clean all the corners and polish... Read more

One Story, One Song

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in... Read more

Escritores descalzos

By: Rodolfo Bracelli

Narrated by: Nicolás Ginesín

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversaciones del autor con García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, Abelardo Castillo, Norah Borges y otros creadores. "El descalzo es el escritor en su tinta. Pero la tinta de un escritor no es sólo la tinta de su tintero, de su teclado. Es, además, todo eso que lo envuelve como una red y lo apresa y/o contiene y está más... Read more

The Rush for Second Place

By: William Gaddis

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists, the heir to Joyce and Nabokov. Less well known is Gaddis's body of perceptive critical writings.



Presented here is a wide range of Gaddis's original essays. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'"... Read more

Rediscovering Travel

By: Seth Kugel

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly... Read more

Cuba on the Verge

By: Leila Guerriero

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Lorenzo Irizarry

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and out.Change looms in Cuba.Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much as it confounds. Images of the Buena Vista Social Club, wild... Read more

This is Cuba

By: David Ariosto

Narrated by: David Ariosto

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view.This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is... Read more

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in artAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and “brilliant” by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of... Read more

The Point of It All

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Daniel Krauthammer

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future... Read more

In Search of the Canary Tree

By: Lauren E. Oakes

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world

Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes... Read more

El vértigo horizontal

By: Juan Villoro

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La estructura de este libro es un zapping de la memoria y la observación. Las secciones que dan orden a los fragmentos aluden a una manera de habitar la Ciudad de México, todas ejercidas por el autor, quien sobrevivió para contarla. Así, "Vivir en la ciudad" describe escenas de la vida diaria, pasajes de la infancia del autor (las casas vacías... Read more

New Voices: The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize 2018

By: Yiming Ma, Kit Fan, Savannah Burney, Jason Deel...

Narrated by: Yiming Ma, Kit Fan, Savannah Burney, Jason Deel...

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Writers shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize read their shortlisted stories Collected here are the six best stories chosen by the judging panel of the Guardian 4th Estate BAME short story prize 2018. In them you’ll encounter a range of lives and situations: an armless swimmer representing... Read more

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

By: Thomas Morris

Narrated by: Thomas Morris & Ruper Farley

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.

A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in... Read more

Dance for Two

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams presents a collection of essays, written over the past twenty years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer listeners a... Read more

Counting Sheep

By: Axel Lindén

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Norwegian Wood meets The Tao of Pooh in this philosophical, witty, and heartwarming collection of daily observations from a Swedish academic-turned-sheep farmer who finds peace and meaning outside the hustle and bustle of modern, urban life.

One of the fun things about keeping sheep is that now and then it feels like something other than a job... Read more

Smart Ass

By: Margaret Winslow

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City. She met midlife agita not head-on, but ass-on, fulfilling a childhood curiosity about donkeys by answering a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey" in the American Donkey and Mule Society's magazine,... Read more