Essays audiobooks

Vanity Fair: September 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alicia Vikander is our September Issue cover girl: winning an Oscar, falling in love with a co-star, and that's just for starters! Plus: Ingrid Sischy on the shop that defined 80s style The making of Boyz N the Hood Happy hour with French comedian Gad Elmaleh Robert Gottlieb on editing Hollywood's grandest dames The half-century long literary... Read more

Housebroken

By: Laurie Notaro

Narrated by: Laurie Notaro

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess-unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune... Read more

Isn't That Rich?

By: Richard Kirshenbaum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Luckily, Richard Kirshenbaum has a VIP pass to the Upper East Side and is willing to share the wealth-of gossip. His New York Observer column on uptown social life provides a fascinating... Read more

The Book of Joe

By: Vincent Price

Narrated by: Victoria Price

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor Vincent Price won acclaim for his performances as a menacing villain in dozens of macabre horror films, such as House of Wax. Less well known, though, is Price's lifelong love of animals, especially his fourteen-year-old mutt, Joe. From his wife's passion for poodles to film set encounters with all types of creatures, including goats,... Read more

Dog Medicine

By: Julie Barton

Narrated by: Julie Barton

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman’s battle with depression and how her dog saved her life

A New York Times Bestseller

“Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read.” —Cheryl Strayed 

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed.... Read more

I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are back with another audiobook collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman.

This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth... Read more

Kick

By: Paula Byrne

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.’s adored little sister, Kick, back to life.” —Vanity FairFrom celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love.
Encouraged to be “winners”... Read more

Catullus' Bedspread

By: Daisy Dunn

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of history’s greatest... Read more

E. B. White on Dogs

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

E. B. White is best known for his children’s books, such as Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. A columnist for the New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of The Elements of Style, White hit his stride as an American literary icon when he began publishing his One Man’s Meat columns from his saltwater farm on... Read more

Vanity Fair: April–June 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Vanity Fair: August 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s the summer of Margot Robbie! Listen to how the sexy femme fatale from The Wolf of Wall Street became the new queen of blockbusters.Plus Special report: Bill Cosby horror storiesThe real reason Trump won’t release his tax returnsNancy Jo Sales on dating for dollarsThe prep-school scandal that shook three generationsPlus: Pitbull, Billie... Read more

The Ten (Food) Commandments

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Ten (Food) Commandments, written and read by Jay Rayner.

Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat

The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century... Read more

Being a Beast

By: Charles Foster

Narrated by: Charles Foster

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal―by living like them

How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing... Read more

How to Ruin Everything

By: George Watsky

Narrated by: George Watsky

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical

Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing... Read more

I'm Just a Person

By: Tig Notaro

Narrated by: Tig Notaro

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she... Read more

The Wonder Trail

By: Steve Hely

Narrated by: Steve Hely

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad!, and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots.
 
The Wonder Trail is... Read more

The Boys of My Youth

By: Jo Ann Beard

Narrated by: Jo Ann Beard

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.

Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men... Read more

The Yarn Whisperer

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives.
—From the preface

In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on a Life in Knitting, renowned knitter and author Clara... Read more

Hogs Wild

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Ian Frazier

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Wild assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage, and demonstrates the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that distinguish his enduring body of work.

Part muckraker,... Read more

In Memory of Bread

By: Paul Graham

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The funny, poignant memoir of one man’s struggle to come to terms with his celiac diagnosis, forcing him to reexamine his relationship with food.

When Paul Graham was suddenly diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of thirty-six, he was forced to say goodbye to traditional pasta, pizza, sandwiches, and more. Gone, too, were some of his favorite... Read more

Essays of E. B. White

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, “The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.”Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features thirty-one of White’s most memorable essays. Read more

Knitlandia

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. 
 
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to... Read more

But What If We're Wrong?

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Chuck Klosterman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams?... Read more

Black Man, White House

By: D. L. Hughley

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Cherise Boothe, Ron Butler, Greg It...

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as “told” by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama’s own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally, the truth is revealed in this raucously funny “oral history”... Read more