Essays audiobooks

Where the Past Begins

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan & Daniel Halpern

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get... Read more

Trump is F*cking Crazy

By: Keith Olbermann

Narrated by: Keith Olbermann

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty, acerbic, hard-hitting, and timely, Keith Olbermann's Donald Trump commentaries come adapted from his hit GQ series The Resistance.
 
Since Donald Trump's presidential nomination, Keith Olbermann has emerged as one of the web's most popular anti-Trump screedists—each installment of his GQ web series The Resistance receives nearly four... Read more

F*ck Whales

By: Maddox

Narrated by: Maddox

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of satirical, crass, comedic essays from famed Internet personality and New York Times bestselling author Maddox, of the infamous website The Best Page in the Universe.

In this third book from Maddox, the reigning king of Internet satire delivers a collection of humorous, unapologetic essays in the same voice that propelled him into... Read more

I Hear She's a Real Bitch

By: Jen Agg

Narrated by: Jen Agg

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.


Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world... Read more

Walking with Peety

By: Eric O'Grey

Narrated by: Mark Dagostino

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"This feel-good, easy-to-read book...is sure to inspire many readers" as Eric meets Peety and their journey together saves both of their lives and creates a lifelong bond (Booklist).
Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes due to his weight, Eric went to a... Read more

Beyond the Messy Truth

By: Van Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times) who coined the term “whitelash”

Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the... Read more

Jörg Thadeusz im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Bolte, Dr. Claudia Nicolai und Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger - Thadeusz und die Visionäre, Teil 1 (Ungekürzt)

By: Jörg Thadeusz

Narrated by: Jörg Thadeusz, Andreas Bolte, Claudia Nicolai &...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie erfinden Roboter, die die Gedanken gelähmter Menschen lesen können, sie gründen Museen, in denen die Besucher neue, bisher unbekannte Einblicke in die globalen Fragen der Menschheit gewinnen können: Jörg Thadeusz trifft auf außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft und spricht mit ihnen über ihre visionären... Read more

The Gourmands’ Way

By: Justin Spring

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century FranceDuring les trente glorieuses―a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis―Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world... Read more

English

By: Ben Fogle

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues,... Read more

Rescued

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the astonishing lessons rescue dogs can teach us about life, love, and ourselves

As seen on BuzzFeed’s "Best Books Gift Guide"
 
In the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Rescue Road, acclaimed journalist Peter Zheutlin offers a heartwarming and often humorous new look into the world of rescue dogs. Sharing lessons from his own... Read more

How to Read Nature

By: Tristan Gooley

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more

I'm Fine...And Other Lies

By: Whitney Cummings

Narrated by: Whitney Cummings

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whitney Cummings has written a book about being, well, not fine—and what to do when you find yourself with brutal anxiety and a co-dependency disorder; all in her trademark wit, humor, and honesty. This book, however, is fine as hell.”—Sophia Amoruso, author of #Girlboss

“The funniest cry for help you'll read this year.”—BJ Novak

Well, well,... Read more

The Comfort Food Diaries

By: Emily Nunn

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former New Yorker editor chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, friends and family, and home-cooked meals in this memoir “full of warm, bracing honesty…humor and paradox…and sprinkled liberally with the type of recipes that will make book club members say, ‘I could make that!’” (Booklist,... Read more

Tales of Two Americas

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt & Corey M. Snow

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic... Read more

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing

By: Daniel Tammet

Narrated by: Daniel Tammet

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.

Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other... Read more

Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions

By: Stephen Colbert & The Staff of The Late Show wi...

Narrated by: Stephen Colbert

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he’s begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful secrets to millions (although, actually, he’d like you not to tell... Read more

Feel Good 101

By: Emma Blackery

Narrated by: Emma Blackery

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE

But it might just help you change it yourself

Only you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and a lot of real lows, excruciating heartaches and countless mistakes - to get there. The sole purpose of this book's... Read more

Come and Eat

By: Bri McKoy

Narrated by: Diana Batarseh

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's busy world, we all crave something deeper and truer. Whether we're seeking relationships that go beyond the surface or gatherings that allow for joy and pain, Bri McKoy reminds us that all we need is a table, open hearts, and a simple invitation: come and eat.Join Bri as she invites you to discover how a common dining room table can... Read more

Cape Cod

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, Cape Cod details several short trips Thoreau made to "the bare and bended arm ofMassachusetts" between 1849 and 1855. "He went to the Cape out of curiosity," explains Paul Theroux, "but in the course of his travel a great thing happened: Thoreau, the woodsman and landlubber,... Read more

Out of Line

By: Barbara Lynch

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor "Southie," a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs; develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants... Read more

Hertha BSC - Das Hörbuch (Mein Herz schlägt Blau-Weiss) (Ungekürzt)

By: Michael Jahn

Narrated by: Andreas Witte

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hertha BSC - Das Hörbuch (Mein Herz schlägt Blau-Weiss) - Eine akustische Reise durch 125 Jahre Hertha BSC-Geschichte Pünktlich zum 125. Jubiläum des Hauptstadtklubs ist endlich der richtige Zeitpunkt für ein besonderes Projekt gekommen. Mit vielen exklusiven Interviews, Reportagen, Musiktiteln und O-Tönen bietet das erste und einzige Hörbuch... Read more

Autumn

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons 28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In an 1841 essay, American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a stirring call for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and to follow their own instincts and ideas. It contains one of Emerson's most famous quotations: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by... Read more

Prudence

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The essay on Prudence was given as a lecture in a course on Human Culture, in the winter of 1837-8. It was published in the first series of Essays, which appeared in 1841. In it, Emerson describes Prudence as The virtue of the senses and admits to having little of it in himself. Read more