Essays audiobooks

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more

Raw Dog

By: Jamie Loftus

Narrated by: Jamie Loftus

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023

"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." —The New York Times

"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." —BookPage

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more

Shit, Actually

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from... Read more

The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... 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

Charlie Hustle

By: Keith O'Brien

Narrated by: Ellen Adair & Keith O'Brien

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The... 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

Food to Die For

By: Amy Bruni

Narrated by: Amy Bruni

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns,... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more

Cult Following

By: J. W. Ocker

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids comes an eye-popping compendium of the most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history.Have you ever wondered how smart, normal people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Weird history expert J. W. Ocker strives to answer that question in Cult Following. Everything you’ve... Read more

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Rinker Buck

Narrated by: Rinker Buck

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award

“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more

Travel as a Political Act

By: Rick Steves

Narrated by: Rick Steves

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.

With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's... Read more

The Geography of Genius

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.

In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more

Jewish Priorities

By: David Hazony

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine having the entire Jewish people over for dinner—and hosting a raucous, creative, riveting debate about their collective future. Jewish Priorities offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, ambitious, and genuinely "pan-Jewish" conversation. Encompassing more than sixty top authors from around the Jewish world—Israelis and Diaspora... Read more

Derecha

By: Alejandro Páez Varela & Álvaro Delgado Gómez

Narrated by: Bobby Sánchez & Alex Ortega

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La derecha en México ha dominado los poderes formales y los de facto; ha operado las políticas públicas y las finanzas de la nación; se ha apropiado del pensamiento crítico y de la academia. Y ha sido revolución, movimiento, contrarrevolución, legislador, Ejecutivo y Poder Judicial. Ha usado el centro y hasta la izquierda; ha corrompido,... Read more

Caudillos culturales en la Revolución mexicana

By: Enrique Krauze

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Biografía de los grandes intelectuales de 1915 como Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Alberto Vásquez del Mercado, Alfonso Caso, Teófilo Olea y Leyva, Antonio Castro Leal, Jesús Moreno Baca y Manuel Gómez Morin ¿Cómo se construyó el régimen político mexicano que finalmente condujo a la cruenta represión de Tlatelolco? Esta biografía colectiva retrata... Read more

Journey Through the Evolution of Intelligence: 7 Key Breakthroughs

By: Everett Kincaid

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey Through the Evolution of Intelligence: 7 Key Breakthroughs
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you aiming to enhance your understanding and explore the milestones in the journey of intelligence?
Looking for a comprehensive guide that offers all the essential insights into the evolution of intelligence?
Your search ends... Read more

Stories You Never Knew: Captivating Tales for Your Ears

By: Merrick Holden

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories You Never Knew: Captivating Tales for Your Ears
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Searching for a way to unlock wisdom from captivating stories you've missed?
Need a complete guide that provides all the vital elements for understanding and appreciating these stories?
Your search ends here!
This guide acts as your definitive... Read more

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They... Read more

Nexus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores. «El historiador tiene una habilidad endemoniada para exponer argumentos sofisticados sobre cuestiones complejas sin dolor... Read more

Monkey Mind

By: Sophus Helle

Narrated by: Sophus Helle

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophus launches the podcast with a deep-dive into the human mind, this engine of chaos and expanse of possibility we all carry around inside us. The episode begins with a reminder—taken from, of all places, the British tax collection agency—to marvel at the clouds and allow ourselves to be stunned by volcanoes. And it ends with a walk through... Read more

The Great Transformation

By: Karl Polanyi

Narrated by: David Pickering

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New... Read more