Language bestsellers

Cultish

The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“The linguistics of cults and 'culty' groups. Such a fascinating listen; the weaponization of language is an intriguing and timely discussion. Read more

Wordslut

A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met CassidyA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images for... Read more

How to Tell a Story

The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

By: The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness & Kate Tellers
Narrated by: Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Suzanne Rust, Chloe Salmon & Kate Tellers
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“Do you have a story to tell? For over 25 years, The Moth has been bringing masterful storytellers to stages and radios across the country, and in this book they finally put their process of sourcing, shaping, and performing stories onto the page for all. How to Tell a Story reminded me why I believe in the power of stories to change the world,... Read more

Writing an Identity Not Your Own

A Guide for Creative Writers

By: Alex Temblador
Narrated by: Alex Temblador
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

“Note: This book is NOT inspirational! No, instead this book is a no nonsense guide to creating characters, stories, and identities that are non problematic. There has been so much to unpack in this book, that I had to pause it several times, and I found myself uncomfortable throughout due to the truths that the author brings forth. So... Read more

The Elements of Eloquence

Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

By: Mark Forsyth
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase—such as “O Captain! My Captain!” or “To be or not to be”—memorable.

In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write... Read more

Learn Japanese Bundle - Easy Introduction for Beginners (Level 1)

Learn Japanese Bundle

By: JapanesePod101.com & Innovative Language Learning
Narrated by: JapanesePod101.com
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Brand new to Japanese?
If you’re looking for the easiest way to start learning and speaking Japanese…
You’ve made a smart choice. Why?
Because Japanese can be EASY or HARD, depending on HOW you start. - Start the hard way (reading grammar and memorizing words), and you’ll quickly think, “Languages are just not my thing.”- Start easy, and you’ll be... Read more

Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

By: Jing Tsu
Narrated by: Jing Tsu
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

What does it take to reinvent a language?

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu... Read more

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners

Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Spanish the fun way!

Readers

By: Olly Richards
Narrated by: Javier Marzan
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.

"I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level,... Read more

Pimsleur Icelandic Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Icelandic with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Icelandic
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Icelandic — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Pimsleur Ukrainian Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Ukrainian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Ukrainian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Pimsleur Ukrainian Level 1 Lessons 11-15

Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Ukrainian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Ukrainian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Pimsleur Japanese Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Japanese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Japanese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Intermediate Urdu

Additional Words and Phrase For Further Language Learning

By: Zara Ahmed
Narrated by: Zara Ahmed
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Are you ready to take your Urdu skills to the next level? Our Intermediate Urdu Audio Course is intended for learners who have a foundational understanding of Urdu and want to advance their proficiency. This comprehensive 10-session course is designed to fit seamlessly into your busy lifestyle, allowing you to learn anytime, anywhere. Our audio... Read more

Next Steps in Japanese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course

Japanese Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by over 1 million people to speak fluently and confidently. Take your Japanese to the next level and further... Read more

Pimsleur Japanese Level 1 Lessons 11-15

Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Japanese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Japanese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Learn Italian for Kids: Learning Italian for Children & Beginners Has Never Been Easier Before! Have Fun Whilst Learning Fantastic Exercises for Accurate Pronunciations, Daily Used Phrases, & Vocabulary!

By: Pro Language Learning
Narrated by: Pro Language Learning
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Improve Your Child's Italian Skills in no Time with the Most Amazing Audiobook for Kids and Beginners!

Would you like your child to:

• Help your child improve their Italian?

• Learn proper Italian pronunciation?

• Discover the most commonly used phrases in daily conversations?

But you:

• Are not that good of an Italian speaker... Read more

German Audio Bible – Hoffnung Fur Alle

By: Zondervan
Narrated by: Zhengjun Hu
Length: 95 hours 36 minutes

Enjoy this audio recording of the Hoffnung fur Alle read by two readers, which offers a concise “thought-for-thought” translation. By focusing on delivering a clear rendition of the Bible’s stories and concepts, this contemporary German audio Bible offers a better comprehension of Scripture for the listener than a word-for-word translation.  Read more

On Writing

A Memoir Of The Craft

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill & Owen King
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF WRITING with fresh testimonials from fellow writers about why they love Stephen King and On Writing—and a few new words on the joy of writing from King himself.

*ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME*

Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s... Read more

Bird by Bird

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

“At first, I thought she might be just a tad pretentious, but some of the exercises she mentions are truly helpful for reinvigorating your writing and also triggering your memory. It’s incredible what you can remember, especially once you get writing about it. I seriously recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the craft of writing,... Read more

The Mother Tongue

English and How It Got That Way

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells... Read more

The Science of Storytelling

By: Will Storr
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can tell better stories, revealing, among... Read more

We Need to Talk

How to Have Conversations That Matter

By: Celeste Headlee
Narrated by: Celeste Headlee
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

“WE NEED TO TALK.”They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four words in the English language. But in her timely, insightful, and wonderfully practical audiobook, We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee—who earns a living by talking on the airwaves of National Public Radio—makes the case that they are urgently needed.Today most of us communicate from behind... Read more

How To Write a Mystery

A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America

By: Mystery Writers of America
Narrated by: Cary Hite, Caroline McLaughlin, Nigel Patterson, Fred Sanders, Jackie Sanders & Machelle Williams
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“While there are some repetitive elements within this book, I cannot help but overlook it for the wealth of information contained within. Everything from plotting and outlining, to character development and self publishing, there’s something in here for any aspiring author! Read more

Story Genius

How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

By: Lisa Cron
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story.

It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story... Read more

Say What You Mean

A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication

Shambhala

By: Oren Jay Sofer
Narrated by: Oren Jay Sofer & Mark Bramhall
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Find your voice, speak your truth, listen deeply—a guide to more meaningful and mindful conversations.

We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to... Read more

Long Story Short

The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need

By: Margot Leitman
Narrated by: Margot Leitman
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program Margot Leitman. Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how! With a fun,... Read more

Translating Myself and Others

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa... Read more

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

By: Ilan Stavans & Josh Lambert
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the... Read more

1000 Words

A Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Jami Attenberg, Kamali Minter, Joy Osmanski & André Santana
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

“Are you an artist? Stop right here and pick up 1000 Words. Read or listen to a little each day to refresh your outlook and commitment to creating. It's positive and challenging and just perfect for helping you make progress on your art. Definitely a new favorite for me. Read more

I Came All This Way to Meet You

Writing Myself Home

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction”... Read more

Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

How to Write a Sentence

And How to Read One

By: Stanley Fish
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

New York Times Bestseller“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft... Read more

101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish

Short Natural Dialogues to Learn the Slang, Soul, & Style of Mexican Spanish

By: Olly Richards
Narrated by: David McNeill, Carlos Garza, Emma Guajardo, Grace Torre, Israel Rodriguez, Jose Garza Rodriguez, Luis Garza, Marcela Tamez & Pavel Guerra
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Improve your spoken Spanish from home with 101 real-world conversations in intermediate Mexican Spanish.Real Mexicans don't speak like your textbook… so it's no wonder you struggle with the slang and expressions of spoken Mexican Spanish! This book fixes that. For the first time, you'll learn to move beyond beginner level, and speak Spanish in... Read more

Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. Take a... Read more

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

By: Jessica Brody
Narrated by: Jessica Brody
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.

Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing.... Read more

Improv for Writers

10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas

By: Jorjeana Marie
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie presents the first book to harness the creative power of improvisation exercises to help both aspiring and seasoned authors defeat writer's block and generate new ideas. 

Suffering from writer's block and inner critics? Having trouble generating ideas for plots, settings, and characters? Introducing the... Read more

The Language Instinct

How the Mind Creates Language

By: Steven Pinker
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling... Read more

Still Writing

The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

By: Dani Shapiro
Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

“Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between.” —Jennifer Egan

From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a... Read more

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky

The World of Octavia Butler

By: Lynell George
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — how to be in the world. 

This audiobook is about the creative process.... Read more

Win Every Argument

The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

By: Mehdi Hasan
Narrated by: Mehdi Hasan
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

This program is read by and contains archival audio of the author from MSNBC, BBC Question Time, Oxford Union, and other sources.

Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit-for-tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan isn’t one to... Read more

Meander, Spiral, Explode

Design and Pattern in Narrative

By: Jane Alison
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

“Doctors don’t imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, original book about narrative is our new Aristotle.” ―Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice: A Life of ReadingAs Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s been one... Read more

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)

The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby & Adam Verner
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

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

Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller

Save the Cat!

By: Jessica Brody
Narrated by: Jessica Brody
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel.

In Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel, prolific author and story coach Jessica Brody presents a... Read more

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

The Conflict Between Word and Image

By: Leonard Shlain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 24 hours 5 minutes

Who changed the sex of God?



This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally... Read more

In Other Words

A Memoir

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“Lahiri traces the origins, tribulations, and tiny victories that have fueled her decades-long courtship with the Italian language in a bilingual memoir that reads more like an intimate diary. The chapters and short stories offer a vivid timeline of Lahiri's turbulent relationship with language, bouncing around from English to Bengali during her... Read more

Smart Brevity

The Power of Saying More with Less

By: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz
Narrated by: Mark Chamberlin
Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and... Read more

Next Steps in French with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course

French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take your French to the next level with Paul Noble's simple, relaxed... Read more

Dreyer's English

An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

By: Benjamin Dreyer
Narrated by: Benjamin Dreyer & Alison Fraser
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“I think I'm fairly articulate and clever with grammar but there's always room for improvement. Dreyer's style and wit softens the blow to the ego. Bottom line, if you're open to learning you might just learn a bit more here. I highly recommend the audiobook version as well. Read more

The Science of Reading

Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

By: Adrian Johns
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 17 hours

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
 
Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it has been seen as key to both personal fulfillment and social progress, and millions today... Read more

Spanish Short Stories

Immerse Yourself in Language and Culture through Short and Easy-to-Understand Tales

By: Isabella Moreno
Narrated by: Isabella Moreno
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Dive into Spanish Mastery with "Spanish Short Stories"!Embark on an exhilarating language-learning journey with our captivating audiobook, featuring 10 short stories brimming with excitement and culture. Each story, carefully crafted at around 1,000 words, is a gateway to a vibrant world of Spanish expression.What's Inside:🎉 Engaging Narratives:... Read more