Essays audiobooks

Abenteuer Dienstreise

By: Heide Hoffmann

Narrated by: Heide Hoffmann

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Expertin für nachhaltige Landwirtschaft Heide Hoffmann von der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin war in der ganzen Welt zu Hause. Ihre Dienstreisen waren oft abenteuerlich, weil sie vor allem in Gegenden führten, in die Touristen nicht kommen. Auch die Begegnung mit Einheimischen ist auf Dienstreisen intensiver, weil man mit Kollegen der... Read more

Chris Addison: A BBC Radio Comedy Collection

By: Chris Addison

Narrated by: Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Geoffrey McGivern &...

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning comedian Chris Addison explores the funny side of human evolution and Western civilisation in two BBC Radio 4 spoof lecture series

Chris Addison – the thinking idiot's pretend anthropologist – takes us on a comic journey through the vast and rich subject of human history in these eight hilarious comedy lectures. Aided by Professor... Read more

Resilient Chronicles: Unmasking Life's Brutal Truths and Triumphs

By: Orin Hargrove

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'Resilient Chronicles: Unmasking Life's Brutal Truths and Triumphs'
⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide with Easy Explanations ⭐⭐
Are you eager to uncover the strength within you and transform your understanding of life’s challenges into triumphs?
Searching for an insightful guide that reveals essential truths about resilience and personal growth?
Your quest ends... Read more

Clásicos para la vida

By: Nuccio Ordine & Jordi Bayod Brau (Translator)

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído", decía Borges. Y es que los buenos libros nos transforman; un pasaje, por breve que sea, puede despertar la curiosidad del lector y animarlo a leer una obra que cambie su vida para siempre. He ahí el poder de la literatura, que no sólo nos abre... Read more

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat

By: Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Chris Stewart

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn't ever sailed before and had not the... Read more

Driving Over Lemons

By: Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Chris Stewart

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or... Read more

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

By: Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Chris Stewart

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller.

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloë, as they... Read more

Adventures of a Country Vet

By: Rory Dean

Narrated by: Kenny Blyth

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and heartwarming stories from a Northland country vet
In the rolling green hills of Kaipara, Scottish vet Rory Dean and his two fox terriers, Scrappy and Alfie, are on call day and night for whichever animal emergency awaits.In Adventures of a Country Vet, Rory shares stories of the livestock and pets he's cared for as a rural vet in New... Read more

Joker and Philosophy

By: Jason T. Eberl, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio & Geo...

Narrated by: Danny Montooth

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. With his enigmatic motivations, infectious irreverence, and selfless devotion to evil, Joker never fails to provoke a host of philosophical questions.



Bringing together essays by a diverse panel of acclaimed scholars and... Read more

Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit

By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Narrated by: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction



This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha... Read more

The Adventure Gap

By: James Edward Mills

Narrated by: James Edward Mills

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Features a new "where are they now" section, with updates about lives of expedition's original climbers and updated resources based on the "Anti-Racism in the Outdoors" (ARITO) guide.



Outdoor journalist James Edward Mills's book, The Adventure Gap, is a groundbreaking volume that is equal parts adventure story, history, and inspiration as it... Read more

Ir a La Habana

By: Leonardo Padura

Narrated by: Jorge Tito Gómez Cabrera

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Un fascinante paseo por La Habana con un guía de lujo, el propio Leonardo Padura. Los buenos novelistas siempre cuentan en sus historias con un personaje que acaba siendo tan importante como el protagonista: la ciudad donde trascurren los hechos. Por eso no hay mejor guía para conocer La Habana que Leonardo Padura, el autor que mejor le ha... Read more

Woke Apostles Of The Fourth Reich

By: Joseph William Dopp

Narrated by: Joseph William Dopp

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Woke Apostles of the Fourth Reich: A Comedy of Global MadnessTagline: “When the World Economic Forum met Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels at a cocktail party…”Welcome to the 21st century, where the Woke Apostles of the Fourth Reich have risen from the ashes of history to save us all from—wait for it—ourselves! But don’t be fooled; this... Read more

Theosophie

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Die ›Theosophie‹ (1904) stellt Rudolf Steiners klassische Darstellung des anthroposophischen Welt- und Menschenverständnisses dar. Sie dokumentiert Steiners intensives Eintauchen in die theosophische Gedankenwelt Annie Besants und Charles Leadbeaters um die Jahrhundertwende und seinen Versuch einer Harmonisierung derselben mit seiner eigenen,... Read more

In Ausführung der Dreigliederung des Sozialen Organismus

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinen Aufsätzen ›In Ausführung der Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus aus den Jahren 1919/20 reagierte Steiner, wie schon in seinen "Kernpunkten der sozialen Frage", auf die Krise des modernen Bewusstseins, die in den gesellschaftlichen Konflikten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts sowie im Ersten Weltkrieg ihren destruktiven Ausdruck gefunden... Read more

Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinen frühesten Veröffentlichungen hat Rudolf Steiner den Versuch unternommen, aus den naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Goethes diejenigen epistemologischen und wissenschaftstheoretischen Prinzipien herauszuarbeiten, die den Goethe'schen Arbeiten auf diesem Feld unausgesprochen zugrunde liegen. Im Lichte der Steiner'schen Deutung erscheinen... Read more

Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach Abschluss seines esoterischen Hauptwerkes, der ›Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss‹ von 1910, suchte Rudolf Steiner immer wieder nach neuen Wegen, die nunmehr im Kern entwickelte Anthroposophie in andere sprachliche und textuelle Formen zu bringen. Mit den Schriften ›Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen‹ (1912) und ›Die Schwelle der... Read more

Wahrheit und Wissenschaft

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In dieser Schrift setzt Rudolf Steiner sich mit Grundgedanken Goethes und Fichtes auseinander und entwickelt dabei die erkenntnistheoretischen Grundlagen seiner späteren anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft. Read more

Bölünmüş Bir Dünyada Akıl Sağlığımızı Nasıl Koruruz - Abridged

By: Elif Şafak

Narrated by: Sabanur Aksoy

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Pandemiden sonra artık hiçbir şey eskisi gibi olmayacak, iyiden iyiye kutuplaşan dünyamız bir kavşakta ve hepimiz akıl sağlığımızı koruyarak hangi yolda yürüyeceğimizi bir an önce seçmeliyiz" diyor Elif Şafak. Ardından da kafa karışıklıklarımıza, hayal kırıklıklarımıza, kaygılarımıza, öfkelerimize hatta duyarsızlıklarımıza ayna tutuyor.... Read more

The Position of Spoons

By: Deborah Levy

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy. Deborah Levy’s vital literary voice speaks about many things. On footwear: “It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes without socks are destined to... Read more

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

By: Padma Lakshmi & Jaya Saxena

Narrated by: Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary ...

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

By: Bill McKibben & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens, Stephen Graybill, Lee Osorio & ...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet... Read more

Notes from an Island

By: Tove Jansson

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

From a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal that includes sketches from her romantic partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä.

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for... Read more

The Conspiracy against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti

Narrated by: Jon Padgett

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and... Read more