Essays audiobooks

The Longest Way Home

By: Andrew McCarthy

Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years—and with no clear understanding of what’s holding him back—Andrew McCarthy finds himself at a crossroads, plagued by doubts that have clung to him for a lifetime. Something in his character has kept him always at a distance, preventing him from giving himself wholeheartedly to the woman he... Read more

Sailing Alone around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic... Read more

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

By: Fran Lebowitz

Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.

In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends,... Read more

My Heart Is an Idiot

By: Davy Rothbart

Narrated by: Davy Rothbart

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He's continually coming up with outrageous schemes, which he always... Read more

Schweizer Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Apfelschuss von Wilhelm Tell und der Rütlischwur sind zwei der bekanntesten Geschichten aus der Schweiz. Uve Teschner erzählt in dieser Lesung weitere 18 ausgewählte Sagen und Legenden der Schweiz. Vermutlich gab es bereits 5.300 v. Chr. bei Gächlingen (Schaffhausen) erste landwirtschaftliche Siedlungen. Entdeckungen an den Schweizer... Read more

David Attenborough In His Own Words

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews: Parkinson (broadcast on BBC One, 2th December 1975, featuring Michael Parkinson), Profile (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1st July 1976, featuring Kathleen Cheesmond), Desert Island Discs (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 1th March 1979, featuring Roy... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Blue Water, Green Skipper

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Stephen Collins

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea?

Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his... Read more

Chasing the Monsoon

By: Alexander Frater

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring story of how one man realized his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon.Alexander Frater spent the first six years of his life on a South Pacific island, where his father, the only doctor within a thousand square miles, encouraged his fascination and respect for the... Read more

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen... Read more

Hey Rube

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube.

Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a... Read more

Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?

By: Jesse Bering

Narrated by: Jesse Bering

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?

In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse Bering features more than... Read more

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance®

By: Robert M. Pirsig & Peter Flannery

Narrated by: James Purefoy & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974. A powerful examination of how we live, as well as a... Read more

Dan Gets a Minivan

By: Dan Zevin

Narrated by: Dan Zevin

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling and beloved tradition of Dave Barry, a coming-of-middle-age tale by Thurber finalist Dan Zevin, master of "Seinfeld-ian nothingness" (Time) about a man's inevitable transition into midlife and fatherhood. The least hip citizen of Brooklyn, Dan Zevin has a working wife, two small children, a mother who visits each week to... Read more

The Sweet Life in Paris

By: David Lebovitz

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in... Read more

Not Taco Bell Material - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his second book, Adam Carolla—author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster—reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.

Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about... Read more

I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

By: Joan Rivers

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850“How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?”—Joan Rivers, today, about two-ish
Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She’s also opinionated—especially when it comes to people she hates. Like people who think... Read more

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Read more

Steven Raichlen’s Martha’s Vineyard

By: Steven Raichlen

Narrated by: Steven Raichlen

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Join celebrated PBS TV host and New York Times bestselling author, Steven Raichlen, for a personal guided tour of Martha's Vineyard, including his favorite places to shop for the freshest seafood and best local produce. This original companion audio to Raichlen's debut novel, Island Apart, takes us right into Steven's kitchen as he brings the... Read more

Bern Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Geschichte der Stadt Bern im Kanton Bern beginnt vermutlich bereits in der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Damals lag auf der Engehalbinsel eine keltische Siedlung der Helvetier. Münzfunde und Ausgrabungen aus der römischen Zeit belegen, dass auf der Halbinsel eine gallo-römische Siedlung bestand, die jedoch zwischen 165 und... Read more

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

By: Mark Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site,... Read more

I Suck at Girls

By: Justin Halpern

Narrated by: Sean Schemmel

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestseller author of Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern, comes a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching collection of personal stories about relationships with the opposite sex, from a first kiss to getting engaged and all the awkward moments in between. With Sh*t My Dad Says, Halpern brought his brand of talented... Read more

A Sense of Direction

By: Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to... Read more

Lizz Free or Die

By: Lizz Winstead

Narrated by: Lizz Winstead

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice.

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian and as a woman, and how humor... Read more