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
Sunshine State
By: Sarah Gerard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Floridaās gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survivalāphysical, emotional, environmentalāthrough a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Black Unicorn
By: Tiffany Haddish
Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South... Read more
Broken (in the best possible way)
By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel...Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From... Read more
Truth & Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Ann Patchett
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships,Ā the kind where your arms canāt distinguish burden from embrace.ā āĀ PeopleNew York TimesĀ Bestselling author Ann Patchettās first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.Ann Patchett and... Read more
View audiobookI'm Just a Person
By: Tig Notaro
Narrated by: Tig Notaro
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Americaās most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she... Read more
View audiobookThe Best of Me
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
āGeniusā¦ It is miraculous to read these piecesā¦ You must read The Best of Me.ā āAndrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review
David Sedarisās best stories and essays,Ā spanning his remarkable careerāas selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the... Read more
All We Can Save
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
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There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more
View audiobookThe View from the Cheap Seats
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topicsāfrom art and artists to dreams, myths, and memoriesāobserved in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaimanās probing, amusing, and distinctive style.An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the... 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 Americaāmajestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If youāre going to take a hike, itās probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide youāll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more
View audiobookYearbook
By: Seth Rogen
Narrated by: Seth Rogen & Full Cast
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers ofĀ SuperbadĀ andĀ Pineapple ExpressĀ and one of the producers ofĀ The Disaster Artist, Neighbors,Ā andĀ The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in peopleās searchesĀ using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) The... Read more
View audiobookSister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more
View audiobookThe Disordered Cosmos
By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmosāand a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A Finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
AĀ Smithsonian MagazineĀ Best Science Book of... Read more
A Very Punchable Face
By: Colin Jost
Narrated by: Colin Jost
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ In these hilarious essays, theĀ Saturday Night LiveĀ head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.
āI always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.āāLarry David
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Cosmopolitan ā¢ Vulture ā¢ Parade
If thereās... Read more
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism.
Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black... Read more
Trick Mirror
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āFromĀ The New YorkerāsĀ beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.āāEsquire
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Book Club Pick forĀ NowĀ ReadĀ This, fromĀ PBSĀ NewsHourĀ andĀ The New York TimesĀ ā¢Ā āA whip-smart, challenging book.āāZadie Smith ā¢ āJia... Read more
Round Here and Over Yonder
By: Trae Crowder & Corey Ryan Forrester
Narrated by: Trae Crowder & Corey Ryan Forrester
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the authors.Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin' the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches.Trae and Corey will take you from the smallest of small towns to major US metropolises (or is it metropoli? We haven't a fartin'... Read more
View audiobookThe Witches Are Coming
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more
Late Migrations
By: Margaret Renkl
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a familyāand of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural worldāfrom beloved New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl.Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and... Read more
View audiobookWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ This essay collection from the ābitches gotta eatā blogger, writer on Huluās Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and āone of our countryās most fierce and foulmouthed authorsā (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful... Read more
Gathering Moss
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more
Dear Girls
By: Ali Wong
Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢Ā Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Awardāwinning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Timeās 100 Most Influential People of the Year list
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āA collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex,... Read more
Bite by Bite
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureInĀ Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrancesāa subtext or... Read more
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