Essays audiobooks

And It Was Good

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic work of spirituality from the author of A Wrinkle in Time offers life-transforming insights on the rich heritage of the Bible and shows how the characters of this ancient text are relevant for living the good life now.In the first book of her Genesis Trilogy, beloved author Madeleine L’Engle casts long, loving, and perceptive... Read more

Everybody Is Awful

By: Jim Florentine

Narrated by: Jim Florentine & Jim Norton

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A rant-ish memoir by the veteran stand-up comedian and former cohost of That Metal Show, with a foreword by Jim Norton.

Twitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Instagram Exhibitionists. These are just a few of the creatures our technology-obsessed culture has spawned in its quest to simplify our lives. The madness is so universal now that everyone has... Read more

I Wrote This Book Because I Love You

By: Tim Kreider

Narrated by: Tim Kreider

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*

The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.

Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a... Read more

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.

In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive... Read more

I've Got This Round

By: Mamrie Hart

Narrated by: Mamrie Hart

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilarious, candid, and full of shenanigans, YouTube sensation Mamrie Hart—the New York Times bestselling author of You Deserve a Drink—is back with more adventures.
 
When Mamrie simultaneously enters her 30s and finds herself single for the first time since college, the world is suddenly full of possibilities. Emboldened by the cool confidence... Read more

Feel Free

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 

A New York Times Notable Book

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays

Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's... Read more

Up Up, Down Down

By: Cheston Knapp

Narrated by: Cheston Knapp

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Daring, wise, hilarious, and tender, this exhilarating collection of seven linked essays by Cheston Knapp tackles Big Questions through seemingly unlikely avenues: an examination of a local professional wrestling promotion becomes a meditation on pain and his relationship with his father; a profile on UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history... Read more

Politics Of The Womb

By: Pinki Virani

Narrated by: Monisha Narang

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Among life’s choices is to have children or remain childfree. Yet those who want a child and find themselves unable, live through the trauma of ‘infertility’—cruelly attributed as ‘their fault’—to undergo the tribulations of assisted reproductive technology.

But how safe is aggressive Ivf, invasive Icsi, exploitative ovarian hyper-stimulation... Read more

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions... Read more

Nasty Women

By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay & Kate Harding

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move... Read more

Winter

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time... Read more

This Idea is Brilliant

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Charles Constant

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know.As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically... Read more

Paperbacks from Hell

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades—if you dare! Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate.Horror author and vintagepaperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next... Read more

Kabarettistisches um, über und mit Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Peter Eckhart Reichel & Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Michael Quast & Moritz Stoepel

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joachim Ringelnatz zählt heute zu den wenigen Dichtern, die das deutschsprachige Kabarett seinerzeit überhaupt hervorgebracht hat. Aber nicht nur auf den Brettl-Bühnen, auch im alltäglichen Leben war er ein Original, ohne dies überhaupt sein zu wollen. Mit seinen Streichen lieferte er jedoch ausreichend Stoff für unzählige Anekdoten, die... Read more

India 2020

By: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this ground-breaking vision document, first published in 1998, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan offer a blueprint for India to be counted among the world’s top five economic powers by the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not unrealistic. Past successes—the green revolution and... Read more

The Unusual Billionaires

By: Saurabh Mukherjea

Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a company truly outstanding?
What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?
What is common to Asian Paints, HDFC Bank, Marico, Axis Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Berger Paints?
They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies... Read more

Trap Kitchen

By: Malachi Jenkins, Roberto Smith & Marisa Mendez

Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When two former members of Los Angeles’ most nefarious rival gangs decided to unite under one oven, they had no idea that they would be creating an empire. Trap Kitchen is more than just a cookbook. It’s a glimpse into the meals that have now become famous in the LA streets thanks to the series of pop-up restaurants that continue to bloom... Read more

Late Essays

By: J.M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the... Read more

Essays - The Second Series

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: George Doyle

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Essays: Second Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. This book contains 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, New England Reformers. Artist Bio Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist,... Read more

The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?

By: Brittany Gibbons

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with what fashion.From Pinterest boards and Instagram posts to shop windows and ad campaigns, fashion is... Read more

The Truth Matters

By: Bruce Bartlett

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and... Read more

Silk Parachute

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: John McPhee

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A WONDROUS BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his... Read more

You're Not That Great

By: Elan Gale

Narrated by: Elan Gale

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the bestselling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT... Read more

Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?

By: Bill Heavey

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal-two entities rarely seen in the same sentence-like it. For more than twenty years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has... Read more