Essays audiobooks

Zoom

By: Bob Berman

Narrated by: Bob Berman & Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.

If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair... Read more

Lenin Lives Next Door

By: Jennifer Eremeeva

Narrated by: Jennifer Eremeeva

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"You can't make this stuff up." So says American writer, Imperial Russia enthusiast, Romanov junkie, and veteran expatriate, Jennifer Eremeeva, who has lived for the last twenty years in Russia after she fell in love with, and married HRH, her Handsome Russian Husband (occasionally a.k.a. Horrible Russian Husband). Luckily for Eremeeva, she... Read more

The Carnivore's Manifesto

By: Patrick Martins

Narrated by: Mike Edison

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A bold manifesto from the founder of Slow Foods USA with fifty declarations on why we should eat well, eat responsibly, and eat meat.
We have evolved as carnivores, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, with the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming poisoning our planet and our bodies, we can and... Read more

The Carnivore's Manifesto

By: Patrick Martins

Narrated by: Mike Edison

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Atlantic's Best Food Books of 2014: fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA.

We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming,... Read more

The House is Full of Yogis

By: Will Hodgkinson

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working class parents to go to... Read more

Vanity Fair: July 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 17 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

Carsick

By: John Waters

Narrated by: John Waters

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo.

John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and... Read more

Tibetan Peach Pie

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier... Read more

The World According to Bob

By: James Bowen

Narrated by: Kristopher Milnes

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Cat lovers around the world embraced the New York Times bestselling heartwarming true story of James Bowen and A Street Cat Named Bob. Now, the busker and his feline friend are back in The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat—a touching and true sequel about one man and the cat that changed his life.

As... Read more

Life of the Party

By: Bert Kreischer

Narrated by: Bert Kreischer

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of outrageous stories by the standup comic, TV host, and inspiration for the movie National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Bert Kreischer doesn't know how to say "no." If he did, he wouldn't have gotten himself mixed up with a group of Russian mobsters on a class trip to Moscow, earning him his nickname: "The Machine." He wouldn't have... Read more

Good Talk, Dad

By: Bill Geist & Willie Geist

Narrated by: Authors

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an... Read more

The Third Plate

By: Dan Barber

Narrated by: Dan Barber

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post

Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. In his visionary New York Times–bestselling book,... Read more

Good Talk, Dad

By: Bill Geist & Willie Geist

Narrated by: Bill Geist & Willie Geist

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an... Read more

Mere Christianity

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way."" — Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book ReviewOur moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being exists—God.Mere Christianity explores the core beliefs... Read more

President Me - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can’t do it? You don’t have to! Adam has done it for you!Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world view in his New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We’ll... Read more

The Noble Hustle

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Colson Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”
 
 
On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a... Read more

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having

By: Edith Zimmerman, Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, ...

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless... Read more

The Closer

By: Mariano Rivera

Narrated by: Michael Kay

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.

Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He... Read more

But Enough About You

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wide-ranging collection of essays with “distinctive wordplay and quirky opinions…Christopher Buckley is good company whether you’re looking for two quick pages and a smile, or want to linger” (The New York Times Book Review).

Christopher Buckley, like his terrific volume But Enough About You, contains multitudes. Tackling... Read more

Stirring the Pot

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Jenny McCarthy

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend: honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much she “stirs the pot.” Combining the secrets of her... Read more

Vanity Fair: June 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 45 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: January–April 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 21 hours 36 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

Mookie

By: Mookie Wilson & Erik Sherman

Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They said it was the “Curse of the Bambino.” They said “the bad guys won.” Now one of baseball’s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story—from the ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Game Six rally against the Boston Red Sox to the rise and fall of a team... Read more

Shrinkage

By: Bryan Bishop

Narrated by: Bryan Bishop

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the popular sidekick on the Guinness World Record-breaking Adam Carolla Show comes this candid, comical, and uplifting memoir of the author's courageous battle and recovery.

At thirty years old Bryan Bishop’s life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was... Read more