Bite by Bite
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more
View audiobookThis Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Ann Patchett
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick“I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book ReviewBlending literature and memoir, New... Read more
View audiobookLet's Pretend This Never Happened
By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and... Read more
Dirtbag, Massachusetts
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Isaac Fitzgerald
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction
"The best of what memoir can accomplish . . . pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." —Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year"
A TIME Best Book of the Season * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick *... Read more
Tacky
By: Rax King
Narrated by: Rax King
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine”
Tacky is about the power of pop... Read more
Like Love
By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Senn Annis
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's... Read more
I Just Keep Talking
By: Nell Irvin Painter
Narrated by: Nell Irvin Painter
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such... Read more
Travels with Charley in Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
With Charley,... Read more
I'll Just Be Five More Minutes
By: Emily Farris
Narrated by: Emily Farris
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35
Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she saw it, disorganization was one of her countless character flaws—that... Read more
The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - “The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the... Read more
View audiobookWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the... Read more
View audiobookThe Cruelty Is the Point
By: Adam Serwer
Narrated by: Adam Serwer
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No... Read more
Consider the Lobster
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: David Foster Wallace & Robert Petkoff
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read more
My Life in France
By: Julia Child
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”
From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more
American Ramble
By: Neil King
Narrated by: Will Tulin
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened... Read more
View audiobookCapital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3
By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 104 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Volume 1: Living in exile in England,... Read more
View audiobookToo Much Is Not Enough
By: Andrew Rannells
Narrated by: Andrew Rannells
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and Tammy Faye (coming Fall 2024!), the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City
“Candid, funny, crisp . . . honest and tender about lessons of the... Read more
Save Me the Plums
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.”—Vanity Fair
In this “poignant and hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet.
A BEST BOOK OF THE... Read more
David Attenborough Life On Air: Memoirs Of A Broadcaster
By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 19 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
David Attenborough reads his own bestselling memoir
'An enthralling autobiography from one of the linchpins of television' Good Book Guide
David Attenborough is the acknowledged voice of nature, loved and revered worldwide for his groundbreaking wildlife documentaries. Over the course of his long BBC career, David has risen from trainee producer... Read more
One Long River of Song
By: Brian Doyle
Narrated by: George Newbern, Mary Doyle, Liam Doyle, Lily Do...
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of... Read more
View audiobookWhere 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
View audiobookMaterial Girls
By: Kathleen Stock
Narrated by: Kathleen Stock
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard
'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times
Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more
Sex with a Brain Injury
By: Annie Liontas
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about... Read more
Winning Fixes Everything
By: Evan Drellich
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself.Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America.... Read more
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