Essays audiobooks

Feel Free

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 

A New York Times Notable Book

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays

Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's... Read more

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions... Read more

Nasty Women

By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay & Kate Harding

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move... Read more

Winter

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time... Read more

This Idea is Brilliant

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Charles Constant

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically... Read more

Paperbacks from Hell

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades—if you dare! Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate.Horror author and vintagepaperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next... Read more

Kabarettistisches um, über und mit Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Peter Eckhart Reichel & Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Michael Quast & Moritz Stoepel

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joachim Ringelnatz zählt heute zu den wenigen Dichtern, die das deutschsprachige Kabarett seinerzeit überhaupt hervorgebracht hat. Aber nicht nur auf den Brettl-Bühnen, auch im alltäglichen Leben war er ein Original, ohne dies überhaupt sein zu wollen. Mit seinen Streichen lieferte er jedoch ausreichend Stoff für unzählige Anekdoten, die... Read more

India 2020

By: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this ground-breaking vision document, first published in 1998, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan offer a blueprint for India to be counted among the world’s top five economic powers by the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not unrealistic. Past successes—the green revolution and... Read more

The Unusual Billionaires

By: Saurabh Mukherjea

Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a company truly outstanding?
What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?
What is common to Asian Paints, HDFC Bank, Marico, Axis Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Berger Paints?
They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies... Read more

Late Essays

By: J.M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the... Read more

Trap Kitchen

By: Malachi Jenkins, Roberto Smith & Marisa Mendez

Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When two former members of Los Angeles’ most nefarious rival gangs decided to unite under one oven, they had no idea that they would be creating an empire. Trap Kitchen is more than just a cookbook. It’s a glimpse into the meals that have now become famous in the LA streets thanks to the series of pop-up restaurants that continue to bloom... Read more

Essays - The Second Series

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: George Doyle

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Essays: Second Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. This book contains 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, New England Reformers. Artist Bio Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist,... Read more

The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?

By: Brittany Gibbons

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with what fashion.From Pinterest boards and Instagram posts to shop windows and ad campaigns, fashion is... Read more

The Truth Matters

By: Bruce Bartlett

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and... Read more

Silk Parachute

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: John McPhee

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A WONDROUS BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his... Read more

Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?

By: Bill Heavey

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal-two entities rarely seen in the same sentence-like it. For more than twenty years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has... Read more

You're Not That Great

By: Elan Gale

Narrated by: Elan Gale

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the bestselling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT... Read more

The Captive Mind

By: Czeslaw Milosz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of... Read more

Goodbye Europe

By: Various

Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jenni Murray, J...

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.

Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography, smoking and nature.

Featuring pieces of... Read more

Alfie the Holiday Cat

By: Rachel Wells

Narrated by: Edward Killingback

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a fourth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures – this time taking them a long way from home… Alfie and George just can’t seem to keep out of trouble. So when they hear that their owners have got a new holiday home, they can’t... Read more

Gods, Wasps and Stranglers

By: Mike Shanahan

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.” Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology of one of the world’s most fascinating—and... Read more

On Power

By: Gene Simmons

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

YOU DESERVE TO HAVE POWER.IT IS YOURS FOR THE TAKING.GENE SIMMONS IS HERE TO UNLOCK THE DOORS TO THE TEMPLE.Gene Simmons, KISS front-man, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, and master of self-invention, shares his philosophy on power—how to attain it, how to keep it, and how to harness it as a driving force in business and in life.As co-founder of... Read more

Don’t Save Anything

By: James Salter

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style. The author of many memorable works of fiction—including Dusk, and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award—he is also celebrated for his... Read more

L'Appart

By: David Lebovitz

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes.
 
When David Lebovitz... Read more