Essays audiobooks

The Spell of the Sensuous

By: David Abram

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How,... Read more

Finding Gobi

By: Dion Leonard

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling true story of an Australian ultramarathon runner and a little dog who formed an unbreakable bond in the middle of the Gobi desert.Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in... Read more

More Ketchup than Salsa

By: Joe Cawley

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A laugh-out-loud, heartwarming memoir.
**Winner of ‘Best Travel Narrative’ by the British Guild of Travel Writers.**
"If you only buy one book this year... get this.""Probably the best book I have read this millenium.""Fantastic, hilarious, painful. Completely un-put-downable!"
Childhood sweethearts, Joe and Joy are broke and bored. They’re also... Read more

Would Everybody Please Stop?

By: Jenny Allen

Narrated by: Jenny Allen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"One of the funniest writers in America."

That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.

With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through... Read more

Kingdom of Olives and Ash

By: Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Gabra Zackman

Length: 16 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence—an... Read more

Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most... Read more

The CEO of the Sofa

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as "the funniest writer in America" (The Wall Street Journal). Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times-bestselling humorist. Over the course of the year, in... Read more

Are You Anybody?

By: Jeffrey Tambor

Narrated by: Jeffrey Tambor

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have... Read more

Give a Girl a Knife

By: Amy Thielen

Narrated by: Amy Thielen

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman’s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining—and back again—in search of her culinary roots
 
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel... Read more

A Dog Called Hope

By: Jason Morgan & Damien Lewis

Narrated by: John Moraitis

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lone Survivor meets Marley & Me in this “inspiring and very moving” (Bear Grylls, host of the hit TV show Man vs. Wild) memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life.

A decade ago, special forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an antinarcotics raid. He’d... Read more

Boogers Are My Beat

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:• The scientific search for the world’s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word "weasel")
• RV camping in the Wal-Mart... Read more

Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the bestselling success of Dave's novel, Big Trouble, here is a hilarious new collection of columns from the writer critics have called "the funniest man in America."What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up—yes, actually out of his chair—in indignation? Well, lots of things. For... Read more

Peace Kills

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who “never fails to find the absurd” addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War (The New York Times Book Review).To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O’Rourke first visits Kosovo. (“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the... Read more

The Mother of All Questions

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.



In her characteristic style, Solnit mixes... Read more

Rising Star

By: David Garrow

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 56 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national... Read more

How to Be a Stoic

By: Massimo Pigliucci

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus... Read more

Aliens

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee M...

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (artificial intelligence);... Read more

Between Them

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a... Read more

Talking to Animals

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.

In Talking to Animals,... Read more

All Over the Place

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos.

Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her.

Hilarious,... Read more

We Stood Upon Stars

By: Roger W. Thompson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Get lost... and find what really matters

You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river — even in that... Read more

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By: Scaachi Koul

Narrated by: Scaachi Koul

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Certain authors are their own best narrators...Here, Koul's accomplished reading comes with the bonus of regular vocal interjections from her father." — Library Journal

A debut collection of fierce, funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Western culture, addressing sexism, stereotypes, and the universal miseries of... Read more

Kitty Cornered

By: Bob Tarte

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named... Read more

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It

By: Jess Kimball Leslie

Narrated by: Jess Kimball Leslie

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book!"
-- Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens LiveI

Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in it is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives.

Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and... Read more