Essays audiobooks

Lessons from the Prairie

By: Melissa Francis

Narrated by: Melissa Francis

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." -- Megyn Kelly

For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book by Melissa Francis, bestselling author of Diary of a Stage... Read more

Make Someone Happy

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be... Read more

The American Spirit

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.

“Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit... Read more

How I Spent My Summer Vacation with the Judas Contract

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What one reviewer called "my near-sexual fascination" with a comic book character. Originally published in Give Our Regards to the Atom-Smashers! Read more

An American Lawyer in London

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious book, a New York Times bestselling author breaks down the real and ridiculous differences between American lawyers and British barristers.

Originally published in Sunday Times in London, after the magazine asked Brad to compare American Lawyers with British barristers. Wig-a-riffic! Read more

At Home in the World

By: Tsh Oxenreider

Narrated by: Tsh Oxenreider

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.The wide world is calling.Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade.... Read more

How to Be Married

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Jo Piazza

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more

Wherever You Go, There They Are

By: Annabelle Gurwitch

Narrated by: Annabelle Gurwitch

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.

When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast... Read more

Secrets of a Pet Nanny

By: Eileen Riley

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At aged twenty-eight, Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life; her globe-trotting career as a diplomat took her from the corridors of power at the White House to postings in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, and finally, London—where she decided to give it all up to become a professional dog-sitter. But her diplomatic skills were to prove... Read more

When You Find Out the World is Against You

By: Kelly Oxford

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The famed internet personality—named one of Rolling Stone’s Funniest People on Twitter and creator of the viral #notokay for women to share their stories of sexual assault—and bestselling author of Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar turns her laser-like wit to anxiety, parenthood (or ""the sheer insanity of being in charge of the safety... Read more

Why I Love Superman

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

See where Brad's obsession started. Originally written for USA Weekend. Read more

The Phenomenon

By: Rick Ankiel

Narrated by: Rick Ankiel

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.

The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch -- not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning,... Read more

Esto es agua

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora este discurso que vio la luz en 2005 y ha sido debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor. Transido con su humor único, su intelecto preciso y su filosofía práctica, Esto es agua muestra los retos de la vida diaria, un legado conciso de uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo. Había una vez dos peces jóvenes que iban... Read more

My Cubs

By: Scott Simon

Narrated by: Scott Simon

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.

Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter... Read more

Enslaved by Ducks

By: Bob Tarte

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bob Tarte bought a house in rural Michigan, he was counting on a tranquil haven. Then Bob married Linda. She wanted a rabbit, which seemed innocuous enough until the bunny chewed through their electrical wiring. And that was just the beginning. Before long, Bob found himself constructing cages, buying feed, clearing duck waste, and... Read more

La muerte de Guernica

By: Paul Preston

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha este brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras. La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad «abierta» prácticamente arrasada por completo durante un bombardeo.... Read more

Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more

Ballplayer

By: Chipper Jones & Carroll Rogers Walton

Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Chipper Jones

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones—one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history—shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport.
 
Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame–worthy statistics during a nineteen-year career with the... Read more

The Yellow Envelope

By: Kim Dinan

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After Kim and her husband, Brian, decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. There are only three rules for the envelope: don't overthink it, share your experiences, and don't feel pressured to give it all away. Through Ecuador, Peru, Nepal,... Read more

Aftershock - One man's quest and the quake on Everest (Unabridged)

By: Jules Mountain

Narrated by: Peter Silverly

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

'A remarkable chronicle of resilience and resourcefulness' - Daily Mail When the worst earthquake to hit Nepal in living memory strikes on 25 April 2015, Jules Mountain is shivering in his tent at Base Camp. To reach the summit of Everest has been a life-long dream, one which he is more determined than ever to realise, having won his battle with... Read more

The Annotated Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a boardinghouse in the days when the Civil War was still a decade in the future - in which an erudite, polished, witty, sophisticated, learned gentleman holds forth each day at breakfast, entertaining the boarders with fascinating talk: observations on people and nature, occasional flights of verse, remarks on current events,... Read more

Cork Dork

By: Bianca Bosker

Narrated by: Bianca Bosker

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK

“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” —Jennifer Senior, The New York... Read more

Indian Creek Chronicles

By: Pete Fromm

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this... Read more

Strange Company

By: Jean Ryan

Narrated by: Nikiya Palombi

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Company, a delightful collection of short essays, Jean Ryan brings us closer to the natural world. From lizards to lady bugs, from the inscrutable sloth to the resplendent quetzal, Ryan reveals some of our commonalities with earth's creatures and hints at the lessons we might learn from them.Do lizards fall in love? What do sloths... Read more