Essays audiobooks

NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s a “driveway moment”? It’s when you’re so captivated by a story you’re hearing on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you’re sitting in your driveway with the motor running. For years, listeners have written to NPR to describe such moments. Now animal lovers especially will want to make sure their tanks are... Read more

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize–winning humorist.

Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?

That didn’t happen, right?

But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian’s robe... Read more

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

By: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev’s characteristic humour and unique perspective form the heart of this audiobook that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series. Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and... Read more

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts - Abridged

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the coast of... Read more

The Heart of the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the latest of Gervase Phinn's charming tales, The Heart of the Dales, read by the man himself.

His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the eccentric staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent... Read more

Byline: Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his passion for bullfighting and first safari in Africa.

Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a... Read more

Sagenhaft! Geschichten aus Bamberg

By: Marco Kirchner

Narrated by: Marco Kirchner

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Wanderung des passionierten Geschichtenerzählers Marco Kirchner geht weiter. Dieses Mal führt ihn seine Reise in die alte Bischofsstadt Bamberg. Rund um den Bamberger Dom, dessen Grundsteinlegung durch Kaiser Heinrich II. auf das Jahr 1004 n. Chr. zurückgeht, ranken sich bis heute zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die leider weitgehend in... Read more

Ask a Mexican

By: Gustavo Arellano

Narrated by: William Dufris, James Herrera & Christine Marshall

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by a rising star in the alternative media, as well as a new kid on the block in such mainstream venues as NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Today, and The Colbert Report. Gustavo Arellano has compiled the best questions about Mexican Americans from readers of his Ask a... Read more

At Knit's End

By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Narrated by: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Yarn Harlot takes time away from her knitting to offer observations, meditations, reflections, and rants to soothe and delight the knitter's unraveled soul.



Like golfing, fishing, and gardening, knitting is an obsession. It's an activity fraught with guilt, frustration, over-optimism, sly deception, and compulsion, along with passionate... Read more

Just a Guy

By: Bill Engvall & Alan Eisenstock

Narrated by: Bill Engvall

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Engvall has been making people laugh professionally for more than 20 years, and along with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White, is a founding member of the superstar Blue Collar Comedy Tour. In this audiobook, Engvall explains what it means to be ‘just a guy' using all-new stories from his own life. Bill has always lived with... Read more

Just a Guy - Abridged

By: Bill Engvall & Alan Eisenstock

Narrated by: Bill Engvall

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Engvall has been making people laugh professionally for more than 20 years, and along with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White, is a founding member of the superstar Blue Collar Comedy Tour. In this audiobook, Engvall explains what it means to be ‘just a guy' using all-new stories from his own life. Bill has always lived with... Read more

The Outermost House

By: Henry Beston

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more

It's How You Play the Game and The Games Do Count - Abridged

By: Brian Kilmeade

Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Surprising, entertaining, and always imparting an important life lesson, It’s How You Play the Game features anecdotes and vignettes that are sure to benefit any reader. As Brian Kilmeade writes, ""Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life. Winning... Read more

Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Gettysburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives... Read more

Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and ... Read more

Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Petersburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Reading Like a Writer

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Nanette Savard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a... Read more

The Call of the Weird - Abridged

By: Louis Theroux

Narrated by: Louis Theroux

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more

Schmucks! - Abridged

By: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

Narrated by: Jackie Mason

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful... Read more

Grace (Eventually)

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)

In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and... Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. Read more

Crossing Open Ground - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time. Read more

American Notes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him – already a successful author in both Britain and the U.S. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the... Read more

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio listeners test their knowledge against a panel of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world: Adam Felber; Roy Blount, Jr.; Paula Poundstone; Mo Rocca; Roxanne Roberts; Charlie Pierce; and others.
 
This two-disk set features highlights from... Read more