Essays audiobooks

Eiger Dreams

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Philip Franklin

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting – including the essay, “Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs” – Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo... Read more

Nobody Knows My Name

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer’s ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin’s controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman.... Read more

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Larry G. Jones

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a classic essay penned by Mark Twain in 1880. This narration is performed by Larry G. Jones. Read more

A Very British Christmas

By: Rhodri Marsden

Narrated by: Rhodri Marsden, Helen Keeley & Paul Tyreman

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas. With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for... Read more

Still Happy

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Still Happy is Elizabeth's second collection of Facebook posts. Her first, Make Someone Happy, did indeed make many people happy, and so, due to popular demand, she has put together a second volume, which includes "The Book of Homer," a tribute to her beloved dog who recently died. Still Happy, like Make Someone Happy, exemplifies Berg's gift,... Read more

This Book Has Balls

By: Michael Rapaport

Narrated by: Michael Rapaport

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The sports world according to Michael Rapaport—actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic—from the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn’t pure hustle in this “hell of a book” (Shaquille O'Neal).

In 1979, nine-year-old Michael... Read more

The River of Consciousness

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Kate Edgar

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.

Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers... Read more

Courage Is Contagious

By: Nick Haramis

Narrated by: Lena Dunham, Alice Waters, Janet Mock, Issa Rae...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham

Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for... Read more

The Great Gasbag

By: Joy Behar

Narrated by: Joy Behar

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most beloved comedians, the brilliantly witty and outspoken star of The View, hits the most unpopular President ever elected where it hurts—and makes us laugh and cheer—in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that’s wrong with the ""Orange One,"" Donald Trump.Put down the knife, lock away the gun, lay aside the noose, Joy... Read more

Why We Don't Suck

By: Denis Leary

Narrated by: Denis Leary

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling Why We Suck comes a searing comic look at these divisive times, skewering liberals and conservatives alike with a signature dose of sarcasm and common sense.

In an America so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin, where college kids are more afraid of Ann Coulter than... Read more

The New York Times: Footsteps

By: New York Times

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous... Read more

Golf Dreams

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

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Golf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."

Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the... Read more

Stand By Your Truth

By: Rickey Smiley

Narrated by: Rickey Smiley

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part testimonial, and part life guide, Stand by Your Truth mixes Rickey Smiley’s down-home humor with the values he learned from being raised by three generations of elders, steeped in the Baptist church, and mentored by some of the most celebrated comics in the entertainment industry today.

“I’m very passionate about everything that... Read more

The Christmas Chronicles

By: Nigel Slater

Narrated by: Nigel Slater

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARDS BEST FOOD BOOK 2018 From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice. Read by the author, this audiobook... Read more

See Ya Later

By: Arron Crascall

Narrated by: Arron Crascall

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Alright guys? It's me, Arron. Or as some people call me, 'that guy with the phone, the skinny jeans and the really fat head'.

In a world that seems to be freefalling without a parachute towards utter chaos, I'm here to remind you that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. No, in fact, when life gives you lemons, make a fool out of yourself... Read more

The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

By: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem ...

Narrated by: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince & Alexandra Feachem

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian... Read more

F*ck Whales

By: Maddox

Narrated by: Maddox

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of satirical, crass, comedic essays from famed Internet personality and New York Times bestselling author Maddox, of the infamous website The Best Page in the Universe.

In this third book from Maddox, the reigning king of Internet satire delivers a collection of humorous, unapologetic essays in the same voice that propelled him into... Read more

Vets and Pets

By: Dava Guerin & Kevin Ferris

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Vets and Pets tells fifteen emotional and entertaining stories of the incredible bonds between wounded warriors, veterans, and other service members and their service and companion animals. Whether these special relationships are with dogs, cats, horses, pigs, or even birds of prey, readers will discover how these remarkable animals help... Read more

Where the Past Begins

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan & Daniel Halpern

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get... Read more

Trump is F*cking Crazy

By: Keith Olbermann

Narrated by: Keith Olbermann

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty, acerbic, hard-hitting, and timely, Keith Olbermann's Donald Trump commentaries come adapted from his hit GQ series The Resistance.
 
Since Donald Trump's presidential nomination, Keith Olbermann has emerged as one of the web's most popular anti-Trump screedists—each installment of his GQ web series The Resistance receives nearly four... Read more

The Gourmands’ Way

By: Justin Spring

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century FranceDuring les trente glorieuses―a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis―Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world... Read more

Jörg Thadeusz im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Bolte, Dr. Claudia Nicolai und Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger - Thadeusz und die Visionäre, Teil 1 (Ungekürzt)

By: Jörg Thadeusz

Narrated by: Jörg Thadeusz, Andreas Bolte, Claudia Nicolai &...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie erfinden Roboter, die die Gedanken gelähmter Menschen lesen können, sie gründen Museen, in denen die Besucher neue, bisher unbekannte Einblicke in die globalen Fragen der Menschheit gewinnen können: Jörg Thadeusz trifft auf außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft und spricht mit ihnen über ihre visionären... Read more

I Hear She's a Real Bitch

By: Jen Agg

Narrated by: Jen Agg

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.


Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world... Read more

Beyond the Messy Truth

By: Van Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times) who coined the term “whitelash”

Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the... Read more