Essays audiobooks

You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning

By: Celia Rivenbark

Narrated by: Celia Rivenbark

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling classics We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, you'll shoot co'cola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as:

• Why Miss North Carolina is too nice to hate

• How Gwyneth Paltrow wants to improve your pathetic life

• Strapped for cash? Try... Read more

Born Round

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough

Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he... Read more

The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Gesturing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Killing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Lifeguard

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Orphaned Swimming Pool

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Persistence of Desire

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Foreword

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Snowing in Greenwich Village

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Your Lover Just Called

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Family Meadow

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Bulgarian Poetess

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Ace in the Hole

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Local Wonders

By: Ted Kooser

Narrated by: Ted Kooser

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmother’s cooking. Kooser also reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed... Read more

As They See 'Em

By: Bruce Weber

Narrated by: Charley Steiner

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure... Read more

The Cloud Forest

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey, he followed the trails of old explorers; encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the... Read more

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his... Read more

What's Next

By: Max Brockman

Narrated by: Erik Davies & Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Will climate change force a massive human migration to the Northern Rim?

How does our sense of morality arise from the structure of the brain?

What does the latest research in language acquisition tells us about the role of culture in the way we think?

What does current neurological research tell us about the nature of time?

This wide-ranging... Read more

Bubba Talks

By: Dan Jenkins

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most acclaimed sportswriters, Dan Jenkins has won countless fans with his bawdy sense of humor. Bubba Talks is a series of reflections from the quintessential American redneck-a lover of hot ladies, football, cheeseburgers, and Firebirds. Read more

Such a Pretty Fat

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER:"To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to... Read more

Pretty in Plaid

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours

The hardcover debut from the New York Times– bestselling author of Such a Pretty Fat. Read more

Bright Lights, Big Ass

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged ? 10 hours

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly... Read more

Red and Me

By: Bill Russell

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book."" — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book ReviewIn Red and Me, Boston Celtics... Read more