Raw Dog
By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." —The New York Times
"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." —BookPage
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more
Kitchen Confidential
By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his... Read more
Clanlands
By: Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish
Narrated by: Diana Gabaldon, Graham McTavish & Sam Heughan
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Audie Award 2022 for Best History/Biography Audiobook. Earphones Award Winner 2021.
A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.
Narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with a foreword written and... Read more
Into Thin Air
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had... Read more
View audiobookIn the Weeds
By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more
View audiobookA Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more
View audiobookThe Orchid Thief
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more
Unreasonable Hospitality
By: Will Guidara
Narrated by: Will Guidara
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The must-read national bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry.
- JP Morgan NextList Pick
- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions
Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven... Read more
A Walk in the Park
By: Kevin Fedarko
Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
A few years after quitting his job to follow... Read more
The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
Narrated by: Raynor Winn
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Bring nature into your home with the uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the South West coastline, brought to you by Penguin.
Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood.
With... Read more
The Comfort Crisis
By: Michael Easter
Narrated by: Michael Easter
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Brain.
“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and author of The... Read more
Blue Highways
By: William Least Heat-Moon
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more
Two Trees Make a Forest
By: Jessica J. Lee
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to... Read more
The Feather Thief
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more
Where the Water Goes
By: David Owen
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an... Read more
The Unseen Body
By: Jonathan Reisman, M.D.
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile
"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries,... Read more
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
By: Glynnis MacNicol
Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie?
Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.
After New York City emptied out in March 2020,... Read more
The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An anthology of BBC Radio documentaries featuring the bestselling author
Bill Bryson is the world's funniest travel writer, and a master of comic observation. His hugely popular books, spanning topics from linguistics to Shakespeare to the human body, have sold over 16 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, and his 2003 science book... Read more
A Year in Paris
By: John Baxter
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.“A man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.”—... Read more
View audiobookFlâneuse
By: Lauren Elkin
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative... Read more
View audiobookHave You Eaten Yet?
By: Cheuk Kwan
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unraveling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan describes a fascinating story of culture and place, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better... Read more
View audiobookNames of New York
By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Narrated by: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods.
Exploring the power of... Read more
The Atlas of Happiness
By: Helen Russell
Narrated by: Helen Russell
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This charming and entertaining guide offers listeners the chance to learn and be inspired by the "untranslatable" beliefs and unique perspectives on how to live a happier life from countries around the world. Listeners can seek and find happiness in their everyday lives guided by the diverse assortment of advice, history, and philosophies on how... Read more
View audiobookA Long Way Home
By: Saroo Brierley
Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an Academy Award-nominated major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, this New York Times bestseller and #1 international best-seller tells the miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind.
“Amazing stuff.” –The New... Read more