Essays audiobooks

Esther the Wonder Pig

By: Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter & Caprice Crane

Narrated by: Steve Jenkins

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlikely pig owners Steve and Derek got a whole lot more than they bargained for when the designer micro piglet they adopted turned out to be a full-sized 600-pound sow! This funny, inspirational story shows how families really do come in all shapes and sizes.

In the summer of 2012, Steve Jenkins was contacted by an old friend about adopting a... Read more

Voyager

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. “Since childhood, I’ve longed for escape, for... Read more

Pen & Palate

By: Lucy Madison & Tram Nguyen

Narrated by: Lucy Madison & Tram Nguyen

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writers of acclaimed blog Pen & Palate, a humorous coming-of-age (and mastering-the-art-of-home-cooking) memoir of friendship, told through stories, recipes, and beautiful illustrations.

Getting through life in your twenties isn't easy--especially if you're broke, awkward, and prone to starting small grease fires in your studio... Read more

scientific experiments that could have destroyed the world

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Science informs the public policies, the social, and the personal decisions to conserve energy, farming, leisure, health, transport, defense, and so forth. Whether there are fair chances for failure or not, conducting experiments on merits basis, is usual amidst the world wide scientists today. If there are ample negatives then it is good to... Read more

How to Make White People Laugh

By: Negin Farsad

Narrated by: Negin Farsad

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism.



Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world through jokes. And yes,... Read more

Bare Bones

By: Bobby Bones

Narrated by: Bobby Bones

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A touching, funny, heart-wrenching, and triumphant memoir from one of the biggest names in radio, the host of The Bobby Bones Show, one of the most listened-to drive time morning radio shows in the nation.Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father... Read more

It's Not Okay

By: Andi Dorfman

Narrated by: Andi Dorfman

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Andi Dorfman, the beloved finalist of season eighteen of The Bachelor who infamously rejected Juan Pablo and went on to star on season ten of The Bachelorette, dishes about what it’s like to live out a love story—and its collapse—in front of the cameras, offering hard-won advice for moving on after a break-up, public or not.

Andi talks candidly... Read more

Shrill

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West... Read more

Mother Tongue

By: Christine Gilbert

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman's quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride. Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you're secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner-a Mandarin word for milk that... Read more

The One True Barbecue

By: Rien Fertel

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Whole hog barbecue is a culinary art form that is both disappearing and experiencing a renaissance. In The One True Barbecue, Rien Fertel chronicles the uniquely southern art of whole hog barbecue—America's original barbecue—through the professional pitmasters who make a living firing, smoking, flipping, and cooking 200-plus pound pigs.

More... Read more

Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

By: Dave Hill

Narrated by: Dave Hill

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really.

These days, Dave... Read more

American Rhapsody

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth... Read more

Here Is New York

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the... Read more

Vanity Fair: Summer 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s a royal rendezvous for Vanity Fair’s Summer issue! Ahead of the Queen’s 90th birthday, read three intimate reminiscences of her inner majesty, a chronicle of Prince Charlotte’s first year, and about her royal highnesses’ most loyal subjects—her corgis.Plus: Inside Twitter’s $10 billion identity crisisThe mystery of the Ivy League’s Bernie... Read more

Tiger Heart

By: Katrell Christie

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Katrell Christie was a thirty-something artist turned roller-derby rebel who opened a tea shop in Atlanta. Barely two years later, her life would make a drastic change--and so would the lives of a group of girls half a world away.

"I chose the name of my tea shop--Dr. Bombay's Underwater Tea Party--because it sounded whimsical. India wasn't part... Read more

Shadow Box

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism -- stepping into the ring against a champion boxer -- in Shadow Box, repackaged and including never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.

Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him... Read more

Open Net

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: Marc Vietor

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

George Plimpton takes to the ice with the Boston Bruins in this memorable portrait of the rough-and-tumble world of professional hockey, repackaged and featuring a foreword from Denis Leary and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives.

In Open Net, George Plimpton takes to the ice as goalie for his beloved Boston Bruins. After... Read more

Mad Ducks and Bears

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.

In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and... Read more

Old Age

By: Michael Kinsley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."

The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it... Read more

The Bogey Man

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

George Plimpton chronicles his month spent on the PGA tour in The Bogey Man, repackaged and including a foreword by Rick Reilly and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives.

What happens when a weekend athlete -- of average skill at best -- joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports... Read more

Out of My League

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called "beautifully observed and incredibly conceived" includes a foreword from Jane Leavy and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.

The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a... Read more

One for the Record

By: George Plimpton

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archives.

In One For the Record, George Plimpton recounts Hank Aaron's thrilling race to become the new home run champion. Amidst media frenzy and death threats, Aaron sought to beat Babe Ruth's record.... Read more

Far and Away

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political,... Read more

Approval Junkie

By: Faith Salie

Narrated by: Faith Salie

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval
 
Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s trying to impress her parents with a perfect GPA, undergoing... Read more