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

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

Wordslut

A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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

“Read by the author, Amanda Montell takes you on a feminist history of the English language. Wordslut is witty, engaging and eye-opening to the inherent misogyny baked into the history of the English language. Read more

Bird by Bird

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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

“I found Lamott's advice so uniquely inspiring as a writer. Completing this book really does feel like completing a course in creative writing with her as professor. 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

Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide

By: Scotty Morrison
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“An excellent quick guide to learn correct pronunciation for common everyday conversation. Highly recommended. 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

Short Stories in Italian for Beginners

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

Readers

By: Olly Richards
Narrated by: Matteo Ghilardi
Length: 4 hours 6 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 Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level,... Read more

Writing on Empty

A Guide to Finding Your Voice

By: Natalie Goldberg
Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

"From the first moments of Natalie Goldberg's recording of Writing Down the Bones, her classic work on writing and life, listeners know they are hearing something wonderful" —AudioFile on Writing Down the Bones

This program is read by the author.

Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a... Read more

Superbloom

How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

By: Nicholas Carr
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society. From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society... Read more

The Deorhord

An Old English Bestiary

By: Hana Videen
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

From the author of TheWordhord:Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called "a delightful book," an audiobook narrated by Isabel Adomakoh Young that takes you on an entertaining tour of Old English words for animals Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest,... Read more

Learn Romanian: Ultimate Getting Started with Romanian

By: Innovative Language Learning & RomanianPod101.com
Narrated by: RomanianPod101.com
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Ultimate Getting Started with Romanian The easiest way to speak Romanian in minutes!
Grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with the Ultimate Getting Started with Romanian, the easiest way to learn Romanian! The Ultimate Getting Started with Romanian will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Greek to Me

Adventures of the Comma Queen

By: Mary Norris
Narrated by: Mary Norris
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

“What a pleasure to again spend a few hours with Mary Norris. The author of Between You & Me is back with a second book, and this time her subject is all things Greek — the language, the people, the mythology, and the culture.Greek to Me recounts Norris’ experiences learning Greek and traveling the country while putting her new skills to the... 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

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

Says Who?

A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

By: Anne Curzan
Narrated by: Anne Curzan
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan
 
“I was bowled over, page after page, by the author’s fine ear for our language and her openhearted erudition. I learned a lot, and I couldn’t... 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

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

101 Conversations in Simple French

Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken French

101 Conversations: French Edition

By: Olly Richards
Narrated by: David McNeill & Sylvie Pardon
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Real French people don’t speak like your textbook… so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning Method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken French in the process. Created by Olly Richards, internationally-renowned language teacher and... Read more

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

By: Donald Maass
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Engage Your Readers with Emotion



While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and... Read more

Pimsleur Spanish Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak, Understand, and Read Spanish 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 Spanish
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Spanish — 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

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

Zen in the Art of Writing

Essays on Creativity

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Ray Bradbury presents Zen in the Art of Writing, a collection from one of the most legendary voices in science fiction and fantasy on how his unbridled passion for creating worlds of infinite impossibilities made him a master of the craft.Part memoir, part philosophical guide, the essays in this book teach the joy of writing. Rather than... 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

Translating Myself and Others

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

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

Pimsleur French Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn French
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in French — 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 into... Read more

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Mandarin Chinese — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Mandarin Chinese — 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... Read more

Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

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

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 12 hours 7 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. With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you... Read more

Pimsleur Korean Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Korean with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Korean
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Korean — 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 into... Read more

Putting the Science in Fiction

Expert Advice for Writing with Authenticity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Other Genres

By: Dan Koboldt
Narrated by: Emily Beresford & Kevin T. Collins
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Science and technology have starring roles in a wide range of genres—science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and more. Unfortunately, many depictions of technical subjects in literature, film, and television are pure fiction. A basic understanding of biology, physics, engineering, and medicine will help you create more realistic stories... Read more

Foundation Spanish (Michel Thomas Method) - Full course

Beginner Spanish Audio Course

Spanish (Michel Thomas Method)

By: Michel Thomas
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

'The thrill is that you're actually figuring it out on your own. You're engaging with another language, not just parroting it... It's an excellent way to start, and leaves the listener thinking, Hey, Ich kann do dis.' - New Yorker, David Sedaris, humorist and author, on learning Spanish with the Michel Thomas Method

Looking for a convenient... Read more

Basic Azerbaijani

An Introduction to The Language of Azerbaijan

By: Narmin Hasanli
Narrated by: Narmin Hasanli
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

This 5-session Basic Azerbaijani language course introduces learners to essential Azerbaijani phrases and pronunciation, enabling practical communication for travelers, professionals, and language enthusiasts alike. Developed to ease beginners into conversational Azerbaijani, each session focuses on building confidence and fluency through... Read more

History's Greatest Speeches - The Complete Collection

By: Jesus Christ, Frederick Douglass, Eleanor Roosevelt & et al.
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history. From ancient times to the American Revolution, from the days before slaves had been emancipated (or women had the vote) to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Russian 1

By: Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Behind the Wheel Russian Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Russian, providing a strong, yet flexible foundation for speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in standard Russian. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native Russian speaker to aid with your... 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

Working

By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robert A. Caro
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed... Read more

Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you... 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

A Sentimental Education

By: Hannah McGregor
Narrated by: Hannah McGregor
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life. Moving... Read more

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Essays

By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in artAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and “brilliant” by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of... Read more