All About Me!
By: Mel Brooks
Narrated by: Mel Brooks
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words.
“Laugh-out-loud hilarious and always fascinating, from the great Mel Brooks. What else do you expect from the man who knew Jesus... Read more
Role Models
By: John Waters
Narrated by: John Waters
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Role Models is filmmaker John Waters's self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the American playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to... Read more
View audiobookThe Gift
By: Lewis Hyde
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly... Read more
View audiobookYoung Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book
By: Mel Brooks
Narrated by: Mel Brooks
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary.
Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft and history of cinema-and for the power of a good... Read more
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Includes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes. Read more
View audiobookIt Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
By: Adam Nayman
Narrated by: Brian Telestai
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that... Read more
View audiobookShardlake: Dark Fire
By: CJ Sansom
Narrated by: Full Cast, Justin Salinger & Robert Glenister
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series.
Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London – until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another... Read more
We Need to Talk About . . . Kevin Bridges
By: Kevin Bridges
Narrated by: Kevin Bridges
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of We Need to Talk About... Kevin Bridges.
Aged 17, Kevin Bridges walked on stage for the first time and brought the house down. He only had a five-minute set but he discovered he really could earn a living from making people laugh.
Kevin began life as a shy, nerve-ridden school-boy.... Read more
Scotland’s Jesus
By: Frankie Boyle
Narrated by: Angus King
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her exploding brain. It's a funny book about the news, partly because it was decided that... Read more
View audiobookEvery Man for Himself and God Against All
By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated... Read more
It Came from the Closet
By: Joe Vallese & various authors
Narrated by: various narrators, Graham Halstead, Aven Shore,...
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist... Read more
View audiobookBeing Henry
By: Henry Winkler
Narrated by: Henry Winkler
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"Kindhearted and approachable Winkler shines in his narration of his memoir commemorating 50 years of showbiz work...An engaging and endearing memoir by a genuine Hollywood treasure whose work spans generations."—Library Journal
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry... Read more
Blood, Sweat & Chrome
By: Kyle Buchanan
Narrated by: Fred Berman, Aspen Vincent, Dan Bittner, Derek ...
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan.It won six Oscars and has been... Read more
View audiobookThe Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 23 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
Is this Anything?
By: Jerry Seinfeld
Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and... Read more
Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
By: Thea Glassman
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever.
The modern television landscape is defined by influential and ambitious shows for and... Read more
A Treasury of Wisdom
By: Jim Weiss
Narrated by: Jim Weiss
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Timeless wisdom drawn from 3,000 years of human experience offers hope, insight and inspiration to listeners of all ages. These true stories of great individuals include Raphael, Michelangelo, Diogenes, Alexander the Great, King Solomon, Jesus' The Good Samaritan, Beatrix Potter, Satchel Paige, and more. Track listing: Preface An Empty Cup: A... Read more
View audiobookBorn Standing Up
By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit... Read more
Bossypants
By: Tina Fey
Narrated by: Tina Fey
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she... Read more
Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing... Read more
Your Brain on Art
By: Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.
“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times... Read more
Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
Behind the Seams
By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for... Read more
Brat
By: Andrew McCarthy
Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's StoriesI Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member -- and the inspiration for Brats, the Hulu documentary wirrten and directed by Andrew McCarthy.
Most... Read more