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Sex with a Brain Injury
By: Annie Liontas
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Meghan OâRourkeâs The Invisible Kingdom, EsmĂŠ Weijun Wangâs The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febosâs 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
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
By: Kristin Newman
Narrated by: Kristin Newman
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Kristin Newman spent her twenties and thirties dealing with the stresses of her high-pressure job as a television comedy writer, and the anxieties of watching most of her friends get married and start families while she wrestled with her own fear of both. Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead... Read more
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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.âA man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.ââ... Read more
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Delight
By: J. B. Priestley
Narrated by: Sean Baker
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
âAn exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.â Dolly Alderton âJ. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.â Dame Judi Dench ... Read more
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Flâneuse
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
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby & Adam Verner
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil... Read more
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We Came, We Saw, We Left
By: Charles Wheelan
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a preâCOVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts... Read more
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
By: Shayla Lawson
Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
âPhenomenal.... AÂ memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.ââImani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more
Under the Henfluence
By: Tove Danovich
Narrated by: Tove Danovich
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for food. Yet most people rarely interact with chickens or know much about them. In Under the Henfluence, culture reporter Tove Danovich explores the lives of these quirky, mysterious birds who stole her heart the moment her first... Read more
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The Outermost House
By: Henry Beston
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Saul Reichlin, known for their roles in War and Peace and Miss Marple. This definitive recording includes an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale, also read by Saul Reichlin.
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his... Read more
Sister 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
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C. S. Lewis
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 38 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but... Read more
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Finding Hildasay
By: Christian Lewis
Narrated by: Christian Lewis
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home.
âNow I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm â the part where the real pain sets in.... Read more
Tonight I'm Someone Else
By: Chelsea Hodson
Narrated by: Chelsea Hodson
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Tonight I'm Someone Else is a highly anticipated audiobook collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, âbracingly goodâŚrefreshing and welcome,â that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.
From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in... Read more
Save Me the Plums
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠âA delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.ââVanity Fair
In this âpoignant and hilariousâ (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
The Forest
By: Alexander Nemerov
Narrated by: Clarke Peters
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Clarke Peters shares a vivid historical imagining of the lives of individualsâfrom painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelersâin the early United States
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans... Read more
The Collected Schizophrenias
By: EsmĂŠ Weijun Wang
Narrated by: EsmĂŠ Weijun Wang
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying... Read more
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World Travel
By: Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourd...
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A guide to some of the worldâs most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos... Read more
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Sitting Pretty
By: Rebekah Taussig
Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more
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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 Floridaâs gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survivalâphysical, emotional, environmentalâthrough a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
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Inciting Joy
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights Â
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during lifeâs inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores... Read more
Fieldwork
By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Not long after Iliana Reganâs celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin starâwinning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more
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Trick Mirror
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠âFrom The New Yorkerâs beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.ââEsquire
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Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times â˘Â âA whip-smart, challenging book.ââZadie Smith ⢠âJia... Read more