Essays audiobooks

A House of My Own

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.

From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a... Read more

What to Think About Machines That Think

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Brett Barry & Lisa Larsen

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in... Read more

Vanity Fair: November 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our November cover story on Rihanna.In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue Rihanna opens up about music, sex, and Chris Brown Inside Kelly Rutherford’s custody nightmare Michael Lewis on Tom Wolfe Why some chefs don’t want a Michelin star Plus: Patti Smith,... Read more

Rescue Road

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Greg Mahle struggled to keep the last of his family-run restaurants afloat in Ohio. When it finally closed, he was broke and unsure what to do next. Then a stranded van-load of puppies changed his life forever.


Join journalist Peter Zheutlin as he travels with Greg from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring hard-luck... Read more

My Kitchen Year

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men’s Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Publishers Weekly

In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent company. No one was more stunned by this unexpected turn of events than its beloved... Read more

Cold Harbor to the Crater

By: Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland Campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although... Read more

Furiously Happy

By: Jenny Lawson

Narrated by: Jenny Lawson

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.

But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says:

"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an... Read more

Why Not Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, Greg Daniels & B. J. Novak

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.

“This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today

In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares... Read more

Yes, My Accent Is Real

By: Kunal Nayyar

Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory.

Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory—the sincere... Read more

Holidays

By: William McInnes

Narrated by: William McInnes

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and read by bestselling Australian author and much loved actor, William McInnes, this is a story about our love affair with holidays.

It's about going away and staying at home. It's about the relaxing times you had as a kid, escapes you have with your children and the stories you hear from your friends.

It can be about a romantic sunset,... Read more

Allein unter Deutschen

By: Tuvia Tenenbom

Narrated by: Stefan Krause

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tuvia Tenenbom, aufgewachsen als Sohn eines Rabbiners in Jerusalem, begibt sich auf Entdeckungsreise durch Deutschland: von Nord nach Süd, von Ost nach West, in die Stadt, aufs Land, in die Kirchen und in die Kneipen. Auf seiner Suche nach der deutschen Identität schreckt er vor keiner Begegnung zurück. Er interviewt Helmut Schmidt, Giovanni di... Read more

Four Seasons in Rome

By: Anthony Doerr

Narrated by: Anthony Doerr

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.

Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the... Read more

All I Know Now

By: Carrie Hope Fletcher

Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The only thing bigger than Carrie Hope Fletcher’s hair is her heart. Eternally upbeat, this twenty-two-year-old dynamo has sung her way to fame, both as Éponine in the London cast of Les Mis, and on her wildly popular YouTube channel, It’s Way Past My Bedtime. But here’s her not-so-secret: This rising star was once a high school misfit.

Carrie’s... Read more

The Book of Roads

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses." Author... Read more

Irland Sagen und Legenden

By: Patrick Wolfmar

Narrated by: Reinhard Kuhnert

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Die grüne Insel Irland blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. Erste menschliche Spuren stammen aus der Zeit um 8000 v. Chr. Die ersten Kelten, die die irische Kultur bis zur Christianisierung prägen sollten, gelangten um 600 v. Chr. auf die Insel. Aus dem Schatz dieser jahrtausendelangen Geschichte speisen sich Irlands Sagen, Mythen und... Read more

Vanity Fair: May–August 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 19 hours 46 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

Vanity Fair: October 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our cover story on Mark Zuckerberg, featuring an exclusive interview with writer Max Chafkin.What it’s like to wear the RiftHow the investment stacks upWhat to expect for the future of virtual realityIn this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the October issueMark Zuckerberg on how... Read more

Up in the Old Hotel, and Other Stories

By: Joseph Mitchell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 28 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Saloon keepers, street preachers, gypsies, steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady, and a ninety-three-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for the New Yorker and in four books—McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, Old... Read more

You're Making Me Hate You

By: Corey Taylor

Narrated by: Corey Taylor

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of the late great George Carlin, Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour, sounds off in hilarious fashion about the many vagaries of modern life that piss him off.



Whether it's people's rude behavior in restaurants and malls, the many indignities of air travel, eye-searingly terrible fashion choices, dangerously... Read more

Iberia

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 37 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal

Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is... Read more

Browsings

By: Michael Dirda

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life—the perfect companion for any lover of books.Michael Dirda has been hailed as “the best-read person in America” by the Paris Review and “the best book critic in America” by the New York Observer. In addition to... Read more

Habe Häuschen. Da würden wir leben. - Die wunderbare Welt der Kontaktanzeigen

By: Roger Willemsen

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen & Anke Engelke

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Verpartnerungsprosa": über die wunderbare Welt der Kontaktanzeigen Es gibt eine Literatur neben der Literatur, eine, die auf eigene Weise von dem spricht, was ist, was fehlt, was sein soll, und die aus allen Menschen Autoren macht: die Kontaktanzeige. Hier zeigen sich Menschen unverblümt, hier sagen sie, wie sie selbst sich sehen oder gesehen... Read more

Slice Harvester

By: Colin Atrophy Hagendorf

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its arrival on US shores in 1905, pizza has risen from an obscure ethnic food to an iconic symbol of American culture. In August 2009, Colin Hagendorf set out to review every regular slice of pizza in Manhattan, and his blog, Slice Harvester, was born. Two years and nearly 400 slices later, he'd been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the... Read more

Intangiball

By: Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. It also draws liberally from such character-conscious clubs as the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Author,... Read more