Essays audiobooks

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

Fibber in the Heat

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press... 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

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

The Juice

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Jay McInerney

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious. 
            For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street Journal, have been praised by restaurateurs (“Filled with small... Read more

Jeneration X

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jen Lancaster

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to date: acting her age.

Jen is finally ready to put away childish things (except her Barbie Styling... Read more

Farther Away

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound... Read more

An Economist Gets Lunch

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong.

Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator, and maverick dining guide blogger Tyler Cowen.... Read more

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

By: Jenny Lawson

Narrated by: Jenny Lawson

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and... Read more

The Earth Moved

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless. Who knew that earthworms were one of our planet’s most important caretakers? Or that Charles Darwin... Read more

Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half poet and half geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in Travels in Alaska, a work he was in the process... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the classic account of Francis Parkman’s rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw in the spring and summer of 1846. They left St. Louis by steamboat and traveled on horseback, in company with guides and occasionally other travelers. They encountered storms and buffalo hunts, meeting Indians,... Read more

Beyond Belief

By: Josh Hamilton

Narrated by: Ethan Sawyer

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intimate memoir, former Major League Baseball player Josh Hamilton reflects on his battle with addiction and the impact it had on his career—and the spiritual journey that helped him heal.

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character "... Read more

Tough Sh*t

By: Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Kevin Smith

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store,... Read more

When I Was a Child I Read Books

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Marilynne Robinson

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Gilead

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous... Read more

Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An
epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconic
images of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they are
fabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these
"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass... Read more

Saint Patrick, The Banner, The Hat, and the FBI

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day! Alphie McCourt, author of the convivial memoir A Long Stone's Throw and youngest brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), releases his reminiscences of the beloved holiday. This story, written and read by the author, strings together retellings of a few of the expatriate Irishman's most memorable Saint... Read more

Mir kocht die Blut - Die wunderbare Welt der Querulanten und Sonderlinge

By: Roger Willemsen

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen & Anke Engelke

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wie, wenn nicht mit dem Blaulicht auf dem Kopf, sollte man für sie eintreten, die Kritikaster, Meckerer, Raunzer, Streithammel, Widerspruchsgeister und Zankteufel?" Sie streiten und eifern, sie randalieren und keifen, nicht abzuschütteln sind sie, und sie geben nicht nach. Haben sie sich einmal einen Floh ins Ohr gesetzt, dann lassen sie nicht... Read more

Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?

By: The Believer

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt, George Saunders, Jerry Stahl, Ju...

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, Late Show with David Letterman, The Hangover, and The Colbert Report, along with other musicians, cartoonists, New Yorker writers, and those similarly unqualified to offer guidance.
 
Here Amy... Read more

Salzburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Das zauberhafte Salzburg, durch das die Salzach fließt, ist Landeshauptstadt des gleich­namigen Bundeslandes und liegt inmitten des Salzburger Beckens. Iuvavum lautete der Name der Stadt zu Zeiten der Römer. Im 6. Jahrhundert erfolgte die Besiedelung der Gegend durch die Bajuwaren. 696 erfuhr Salzburg eine Neugründung als Bischofssitz und wurde... Read more

You're Not Doing It Right

By: Michael Ian Black

Narrated by: Michael Ian Black

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Christian Lander’s hipster/yuppie-friendly bestselling Stuff White People Like, Michael Ian Black delivers his unique brand of quirky, deadpan humor in this new collection of comedic essays. Now that Black has become the guy he swore he’d never be—a Yuppie A-Hole—he has a lot to say about his family life in suburbia, and he... Read more

Whatever You Do, Don't Run

By: Peter Allison

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top -safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the
wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry -elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals—herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides
whose outrageous... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: William Edward Burghardt

Narrated by: Maria Young

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This world famous book contains several essays on race and their way of life. Read more