Essays audiobooks

Daddy, Stop Talking! - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did—without iPads, 70-inch flatscreen TVs,... Read more

Afloat & Afoot

By: John Burroughs

Narrated by: Brett Barry & Rolland G. Smith

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Afloat & Afoot is a celebration of John Burroughs, a Catskills native famous for his writings on the natural world that surrounds us all. This first-ever audio edition of his work includes two of the writer’s most entertaining and compelling essays: “Pepacton: A Summer Voyage” and “The Heart of the Southern Catskills.”  “Pepacton” recounts... Read more

Dogfella

By: James Guiliani

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James "Head" Guiliani, a confidante of the Gotti regime, was arrested and jailed on a weapons charge. After his release, he fell back into alcohol and drug addiction—until, one day, he came across an abandoned, abused shih tzu in the street. He rescued the dog, whom he lovingly named Bruno, and, in the process, turned his own life... Read more

How to F*ck a Woman

By: Ali Adler

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Brazen, uproarious, slyly prescriptive, and always entertaining, Ali Adler is a sex and relationship guru who knows what women want. As a lesbian, she has both the equipment and the experience to give straight men (and the women who love them) advice about how to get more sex and do it well.In her day job as a comedy writer and TV producer, Ali... Read more

Essays After Eighty

By: Donald Hall

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight.



Hall paints his past: "Decades followed each other—thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed... Read more

Fat Girl Walking

By: Brittany Gibbons

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women,... Read more

Benchwarmer

By: Josh Wilker

Narrated by: Chris Lutkin

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival pages of sports almanacs and stat sheets: a... Read more

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

By: Mike Stangle & Dave Stangle

Narrated by: Dave Stangle & Mike Stangle

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX

Two reckless but lovable all-American bros make a strong case for maturing slowly through their outrageous yet enlightening misadventures across this great country of ours.

My brother and I are looking for wedding dates for our cousin’s wedding.

We’ve been told by the bride that bringing... Read more

In Real Life

By: Joey Graceffa

Narrated by: Joey Graceffa

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A confessional, uplifting memoir from beloved YouTube personality, Joey Graceffa.

It’s not where you begin that matters. It's where you end up.

Twenty-three-year-old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspirational YouTube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes and... Read more

Curiosity

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading was an international bestseller translated into thirty-four languages and for which Manguel earned the MEdicis Prize. Fourteen years later, Manguel anchors his new book in the primal connection between reading and curiosity. Tracing twenty-five centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the... Read more

My Paris Dream

By: Kate Betts

Narrated by: Kate Betts

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style

“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”

As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a... Read more

Dead White Guys

By: Matt Burriesci

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Matt Burriesci set out to write a book about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid... Read more

The Age of Obama

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Charles Krauthammer

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant stylist, popular weekly columnist, Fox News commentator, and bestselling author Charles Krauthammer reflects on the legacy of our 44th president.  In these five new essays, Krauthammer offers a critique of the Obama Administration:  its failed and ambivalent foreign policy, the lawlessness of its rule by executive order, and an air... Read more

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy

By: Sam Maggs

Narrated by: Holly Conrad & Jessica Almasy

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s... Read more

In Your Prime

By: India Knight

Narrated by: India Knight

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of In Your Prime, written and read by India Knight.

Our mothers' fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. There is no longer any sense of what is and isn't age appropriate, or even of whether age-appropriateness is still relevant. We're supposed to be grown... Read more

Content

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics.Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its... Read more

When the Balls Drop

By: Brad Garrett

Narrated by: Brad Garrett

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life’s second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award–winning comic Brad Garrett.

In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious—and irreverently honest—experiences with the many challenges and ultimately joys of... Read more

A Bone to Pick

By: Mark Bittman

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times’ only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food we eat is produced, distributed, and cooked, and shines... Read more

Around the World in 50 Years

By: Albert Podell

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being... Read more

No Better Friend

By: Robert Weintraub

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.

Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened... Read more

The Game

By: Jon Pessah

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 20 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years.

In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America... Read more

The Smartest Book in the World

By: Greg Proops

Narrated by: Greg Proops

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Proops is an internationally renowned comedian, best known for starring on the hit improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for his popular award-winning podcast, "The Smartest Man in the World," which Rolling Stone magazine called "some of the boldest comedy on the podcasting frontier right now." But Proops is also a fountain of... Read more

Vanity Fair: January–April 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity 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... Read more

Vanity Fair: June 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 47 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