Essays audiobooks

For Your Information: A "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat" Essay

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For Your Information: A "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" essay by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline

"Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" is s collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella--the unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team. Read more

Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with... Read more

And Yet...

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.

For more than forty years, Christopher... Read more

This Old Man

By: Roger Angell

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. 

Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Angell won... Read more

The Bassoon King

By: Rainn Wilson

Narrated by: Rainn Wilson

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
 
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and... Read more

NPR Kitchen Moments: Celebrating Food

By: Linda Homles & Stephen Thompson

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

You're preparing to share the food you love with the friends and family that you love - while stories from NPR provide the inspiration. You're enjoying a Kitchen Moment.

NPR celebrates the joyful, inspiring, and downright delicious culture of food with this smorgasbord of radio stories, featuring visits with celebrity chefs and famous foodies... Read more

The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres

By: Hairy Bikers

Narrated by: Dave Myers, Hairy Bikers & Si King

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and read by the Hairy Bikers

The Hairy Bikers are known for their many best-selling cookbooks, including the HAIRY DIETERS, HAIRY BIKERS' PERFECT PIES, GREAT CURRIES and MUMS KNOW BEST, and now they are here to tell you how it all started.

Si King and Dave Myers, aka The Hairy Bikers, have lived life to the fullest. They had fantastically... Read more

My Misspent Youth

By: Meghan Daum

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition... Read more

We Are All Stardust

By: Stefan Klein

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading & Se...

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein—shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discoverWhen acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize–winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, “First and foremost,... Read more

Money Pizza Respect

By: The Fat Jew

Narrated by: The Fat Jew

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the hugely popular @thefatjewish Instagram comes an outlandish collection of hilarious personal essays and images, which might be the most ridiculous book in the history of arts and letters.

If Steven Seagal and Barbara Streisand had drunken sex and conceived a baby boy, he would have show business chops and be proficient in... Read more

The Time of Our Lives

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman, Rena-Marie Villano & Peggy...

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her... Read more

It Ended Badly

By: Jennifer Wright

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History is a history of heartbreak-replete with beheadings, uprisings, creepy sex dolls, and celebrity gossip-and its disastrously bad consequences throughout time

Spanning eras and cultures from ancient Rome to medieval England to 1950s Hollywood, Jennifer Wright's It Ended Badly guides you... Read more

Little Victories

By: Jason Gay

Narrated by: Jason Gay

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

“The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read. It will not make you rich in twenty-four hours, or even... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

The Penguin Lessons

By: Tom Michell

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique and moving real-life story of the extraordinary bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz.

In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant... Read more

The Givenness of Things

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
One of TIME magazine's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies... Read more

How to Be Right

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not enough to be right, these days—especially when you're not left.
 
To survive, the right must learn how to express nonliberal principles as effectively as possible, and persuade others of their point of view. It is an art that demands patience, research, humor, understanding, creative thinking, learning from your opponent and even... Read more

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

Wildflower

By: Drew Barrymore

Narrated by: Drew Barrymore

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.
 
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on... Read more

Binge

By: Tyler Oakley

Narrated by: Tyler Oakley

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge, his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays.

For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to... Read more

Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat

By: Jen Mann

Narrated by: Jen Mann

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece.

When it comes to time-honored holiday traditions, Jen Mann pulls no punches

In this hilariously irreverent collection of essays, Jen Mann, nationally bestselling author of People I Want to... Read more

Land of the Midnight Sun

By: Alexander Armstrong

Narrated by: Alexander Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong heads north in to an ever more hostile Arctic winter to explore the farthest reaches of the globe. In an epic journey, he navigates some of the Earth’s toughest terrain, first travelling through the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, then on to the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, as... Read more

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz

By: W. C. Heinz

Narrated by: Bill Littlefield

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer of the long-form sports story, W. C. Heinz wrote with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Here is a first of its kind audio edition of some of his finest work, selected and read by Bill Littlefield (NPR's "Only a Game"), including “Brownsville Bum”—“the greatest magazine sports... Read more

Got to Give the People What They Want

By: Jalen Rose

Narrated by: Jalen Rose

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments.” – From the Introduction
 
One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story.
 
Jalen Rose has never been quiet.  Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s.  Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary... Read more