Literary Criticism audiobooks

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Camp Austen

By: Ted Scheinman

Narrated by: Ted Scheinman

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing

The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he... Read more

How to Read and Why

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into
lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for... Read more

Otto Binder

By: Bill Schelly

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's... Read more

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.

In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive... Read more

Other Colors

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red.

"One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the three decades that Nobel... Read more

Classical Mythology

By: Peter Meineck

Narrated by: Peter Meineck

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed... Read more

Proust's Duchess

By: Caroline Weber

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 29 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street Journal  

Geneviève Halévy... Read more

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

Astounding

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018""Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post“Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall... Read more

What to Read and Why

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño.In an age... Read more

Eating My Heroes

By: Rick Bass

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations

"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass, remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review editor in his office, in... Read more

Montaigne in Barn Boots

By: Michael Perry

Narrated by: Michael Perry

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne“The journey began on a gurney,” writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the... Read more

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

By: A. D. Jameson

Narrated by: A. D. Jameson & Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.

Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the... Read more

Vivir peligrosamente en tiempos extraordinarios

By: Osho

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Osho es conocido como una de las figuras más provocadoras de nuestro tiempo. Este audiolibro, compuesto de una selección de sus intempestivos discursos, nos presenta una visión general de los conceptos clave del ideal de «vivir peligrosamente». Crítico con las religiones tradicionales y sus normas y doctrinas, que imponen una «esclavitud... Read more

Atticus Finch

By: Joseph Crespino

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend

The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation?

In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph... Read more

South Toward Home

By: Margaret Eby

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A literary travelogue into the heart of classic Southern literature. What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, when we think of Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner or Harper Lee, do we think of them not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby-herself a... Read more

Better Living Through Criticism

By: A.O. Scott

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while... Read more

The Patriots

By: Sana Krasikov

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren & George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel by acclaimed story writer Sana Krasikov that examines the effects of the Cold War on three generations of one Jewish American family, from the 1930s to the present. Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, to a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the... Read more

The Art of Death

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Edwidge Danticat

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing... Read more

See What Can Be Done

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America’s most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary—appearing in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s... 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

The Buried Book

By: David Damrosch

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one... Read more

How to Build an Android

By: David F. Dufty

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science fiction writer Philip K. DickIn December 2005, a young robotocist on his way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas. In it was the fully functional head of an android... Read more