Essays audiobooks

Forever Nerdy

By: Brian Posehn

Narrated by: Brian Posehn & Patton Oswalt

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first memoir by beloved comedian, actor, and writer Brian Posehn, hilariously detailing what it's like to grow up as and remain a nerd, with a foreword by Patton Oswalt

Brian Posehn is a successful and instantly recognizable comedian, actor, and writer. He also happens to be a giant nerd. That's partly because he's been obsessed with such... Read more

Hater

By: John Semley

Narrated by: John Semley

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely manifesto urging us to think critically, form opinions, and then argue them with gusto.

Hater begins from a simple premise: that it's good to hate things. Not people or groups or benign belief systems, but things. More to the point, it's good to hate the things everyone seems to like.
    Scan the click-baiting headlines of your favorite... Read more

Cheddar Gorge

By: John Squire

Narrated by: Robert Portal

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Where can you read about a monstrous cheese big enough to hold a girl of 13 inside? Or that the invention of the bicycle directly, and poorly, impacted sales of cheddar? Or that some of the first cheese makers hid gold coins inside their wheels of dairy as a sales tool? Brethren, the writer calls you this... Read more

Impeachment

By: Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker & Jef...

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Four experts on the American presidency examine the first three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.

Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the... Read more

Liberación animal

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la Biblia de quienes luchan por los derechos de los animales, con prólogo de Yuval Harari . Este revolucionario libro, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, inspiró, desde su publicación original en 1975, un movimiento mundial de defensa de los derechos de los animales que aspira a transformar nuestra actitud hacia ellos y... Read more

Johnathan Thurston

By: Johnathan Thurston

Narrated by: James Phelps

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling autobiography of a league legend.
Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2003, to State of Origin... Read more

Interior States

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction

"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection."
--Lorrie Moore

A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity:... Read more

My Squirrel Days

By: Ellie Kemper

Narrated by: Ellie Kemper

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and host of The Great American Baking Show Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman... Read more

The Reckonings

By: Lacy M. Johnson

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.

In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a... Read more

Why Baseball Matters

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital... Read more

Frankfurter Sagen und Legenden

By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Die alte Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, die Karl der Große im Jahre 794 n. Chr. erstmals in einer Urkunde erwähnte, ist reich an wundervollen Sagen und Legenden und blickt auf eine große deutsche Geschichte zurück. Kein geringerer als Carolus Magnus, Karl der Große, einer der geschichtsträchtigsten Herrscher des Abendlandes, wählte die Furt der... Read more

What We’re Teaching Our Sons

By: Owen Booth

Narrated by: Owen Booth

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what... Read more

The Unexpected Genius of Pigs

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Matt Whyman

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long. Pigs are highly social and smart. They like to play. They’re inventive, crafty and belligerent – and incredibly singleminded. Ultimately, we have far more in common with these... Read more

Kamikaze Kangaroos!

By: Tony James Slater

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony James Slater knew nothing about Australia. Except for the fact that he’d just arrived there. The stage is set for an outrageous adventure: three people, one van, on an epic, 20,000 mile road trip around Australia. What could possibly go wrong?

Of course, the van—nicknamed "Rusty"—is a crumbling wreck, held together by the world’s most... Read more

Impossible Owls

By: Brian Phillips

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.



The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new... Read more

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

By: Dr. Steven Novella

Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."

It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with... Read more

Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance

By: Valorie Kondos Field

Narrated by: Valorie Kondos Field

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Highly acclaimed UCLA Women's gymnastics coach of 7 NCAA championships Valorie Kondos Field shares insights on how to use uniqueness and authenticity to achieve success.
Former professional ballerina Valorie Kondos Field--or Miss Val, as she's affectionately known--has never tumbled, flipped, or even played any type of organized sports, and yet... Read more

Not a Nice Man To Know

By: Khushwant Singh

Narrated by: Dev Haldar J

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential Khushwant Singh collection.
 
In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including... Read more

The Detox Diet

By: Shonali Sabherwal

Narrated by: Vanita Masquerenhas

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Shonali Sabherwal is a celebrity nutritionist who specializes in improving immunity, removing toxins, managing weight, reversing ‘leaky-gut’ syndrome and other autoimmune ailments by first altering the biodiversity of the gut. In her new book The Detox Diet, she sheds light on how the root of everything connected to our health lies in... Read more

Unsuitable Boy

By: Karan Johar

Narrated by: Gaurav Sajjanhar

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Karan Johar is synonymous with success, panache, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes inadvertently creates controversy and makes headlines. KJo, as he is popularly called, has been a much-loved Bollywood film director, producer, actor, and discoverer of new talent. With his flagship Dharma Production, he has constantly challenged the... Read more

50 Cups Of Coffee

By: Khushnuma Daruwala

Narrated by: Aditi Thirani

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and are looking for the real deal to settle down with. When a 30-something woman signs up on a dating website for people looking to get married, she realizes just how delightful, vexing, amusing and befuddling trying to find the perfect husband can be. Based... Read more

Red Lipstick: The Men In My Life

By: Laxmi

Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The world keeps taunting him as girlish but the fact is that, biologically, he is a boy. And, he is always attracted to guys. Is Laxmi both a man and a woman? Or, perhaps, neither a man nor a woman? The first inklings and stirrings of lust that Laxmi remembers came from noticing big, strong arms, the hint of a guy's moustache over his lips,... Read more

American Like Me

By: America Ferrera

Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, Auli...

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.

America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... Read more

Haltung zeigen! (Ungekürzt)

By: Anja Reschke

Narrated by: Anja Reschke

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Haltung ist wieder ein öffentliches Thema, es wird danach gefragt, gar gerufen. Offenbar fehlt es daran. Menschen, die Haltung zeigen, Journalisten, Politiker, Whistleblower, werden dafür gelobt und geliked. Oder je nach dem auch angefeindet. Aber was ist das eigentlich: Haltung? Seit Anja Reschke immer wieder attestiert wird, Haltung zu zeigen,... Read more