Literary Criticism bestsellers
The top 50 Literary Criticism audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 3,000+ partner bookstore locations.
All bestsellers Bestsellers by genreA Swim in a Pond in the Rain
In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This masterclass for writers is also a masterclass for readers, and you don't have to be a writer to enjoy it. Through his wise insights on storytelling, Saunders sent me away with an understanding of why I enjoy reading what I do, how stories work, and how to be a better storyteller (and human) in all rights. Read more
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On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
This program is read by the author.
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist
One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned... Read more
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By: Melissa Ferguson
Narrated by: Talon David
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I've LOLed many times while listening to this enemies-to-lovers romance about books. I almost predicted the twist but was thrown off by a character I never suspected. This book would be great for readers who would prefer a non-steamy read. I felt for Savannah as I learned more about her family's dynamic and how she has tried to navigate it.... Read more
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By: Edith Hamilton
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more
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Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia... Read more
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A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“In this personal critique of creative genius Dederer examines the phenomena of cancel culture. Exploring relationships between artist and audience/fan and whether it's possible to have the proverbial "cake and eat it" too. Lots of food for thought. Read more
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An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more
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Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the... Read more
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A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 7 hours
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – The New York Times
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown
Who are you? You are data... Read more
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For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture
By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Starla Huchton
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Tired of the hero's journey?Frustrated that funny, romantic, and comforting stories aren't taken seriously?Sad that the books and movies you love never seem to be critically acclaimed, even when they sell like crazy?The heroine's journey is here to help. Multiple New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger presents a clear concise analysis... Read more
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How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
By: Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman
Narrated by: Alex Dunmore
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II.
The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In... Read more
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By: Homer
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
From the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.
Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or... Read more
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Kevin Theis
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and philosophical enlightenment with "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche, now available as a captivating audiobook. In this seminal work, listeners will delve into the profound musings and provocative ideas of one of history's most influential thinkers.As the narrative unfolds, listeners... Read more
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An Experiment in Literary Investigation
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 27 hours 30 minutes
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in... Read more
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By: Martin Latham
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Brought to you by Penguin.
'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical... Read more
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Thalia Kids' Book Club
By: Natalie Babbitt
Narrated by: Natalie Babbitt, Gregory Maguire, Colby Minifie & Samuel F. Babbitt
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
The award-winning author discusses her unforgettable novel , first published in 1975, with author Gregory Maguire (Wicked). Babbitt's classic story centers on a young girl who stumbles upon the mysterious Tuck family and their secret, magic spring. The moving prose and rich imagery have made this story a favorite among young readers. Samuel F.... Read more
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How women can take back tech – to communicate, investigate, problem-solve, broker deals and protect themselves in a digital world
By: Anne-Marie Imafidon
Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Brought to you by Penguin.
An inspirational exploration of why women are under-represented in tech, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
Our eyes are now open to the dangerous fact that our technology is built by a series of big decisions made by a small number of people, mainly men. It means our technology is derived from the gender,... Read more
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Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more
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Essays
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe •... Read more
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By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood
“A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire... Read more
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An Experiment in Literary Investigation
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 25 hours 56 minutes
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a... Read more
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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
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Another Kind of Love Story
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
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By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative.... Read more
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By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained... Read more
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Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
By: Daniel Genis
Narrated by: Daniel Genis
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit"
In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at... Read more
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The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 45 hours 26 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.
“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed
With a... Read more
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50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This collection could easily be subtitled How to Read Poetry Like a Poetry Lover. The collection could also easily double as a memoir, as Ó Tuama not only analyzes the 50 poems within, but shares anecdotes and memories that illuminate why each particular poem resonates with him. Listening to him is like having a passionate conversation about... Read more
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A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Justis Bolding
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?
In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy?the... Read more
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From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology
By: Liv Albert
Narrated by: Liv Albert
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Finally sort out who’s who in Greek mythology—from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between!
Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite characters from Greek mythology with this collection of... Read more
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When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
By: Elizabeth Lesser
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected... Read more
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Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Simon Jones & Neil Gaiman
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker!First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural... Read more
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The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece
Books About Books: Book #2
By: Salamishah Tillet
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more
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Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more
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Essays
By: Elaine Castillo
Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.”
“A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book... Read more
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By: Melissa Febos
Narrated by: Melissa Febos
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
National Bestseller
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys
“Irreverent and... Read more
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Stories from My Life
By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.
From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a... Read more
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The Why I Write Series: Book #1
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“There is reading done for entertainment and there is reading done for art; For the magical way that authors can craft words into a sentence and that sentence sends your brain into a technicolor haze; A closed-eye sigh knowing that the author has bewitched you for a moment and the act of reading becomes almost meditative. Patti Smith has this... Read more
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By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I’m convinced that Patti Smith is the reincarnation of some spiritual mystic. Someone like Joan of Arc or Hildegard von Bingen. At this point I am committed to only listening to her audiobooks because her words are even more powerful in her own dreamy cadence. I sound like a school girl mooning over her first loved celebrity but, I can’t say... Read more
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Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Atwood is brilliant--obviously, yes, but wonderfully so, nonetheless. These pieces took me to somewhere I have never traveled on the wings of a goddess. She informs, scolds, gives warnings, and inspires action. She talks about books she's written and books others have written. She speaks with authority and humility. I listen with awe and gratitude. Read more
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How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
By: Farah Karim-Cooper
Narrated by: Farah Karim-Cooper & Adjoa Andoh
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly
As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant?
Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his... Read more
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By: Jeff Deutsch
Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the... Read more
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How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. to Blubber.
Everyone knows Judy Blume.
Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so... Read more
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An Old English Bestiary
By: Hana Videen
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
From the author of The Wordhord: 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
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By: Sam Greenlee
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Natiki Hope Pressley
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s. With its focus on the “militancy”... Read more
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The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.""[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn.""... Read more
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By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Semih Owens
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position... Read more
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Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
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Log in Create accountThe Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth
The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More
World Mythology and Folklore Series
By: Thersa Matsuura
Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.
Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of... Read more
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The Threshold of Middle-earth
By: John Garth
Narrated by: John Garth
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The... Read more
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