Essays audiobooks

The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men - Abridged

By: Jill Conner Browne

Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Sweet Potato Queens like men. They like them so much that they have devoted an absolutely inordinate amount of time to the pursuit of men, marriage, and great sex. And then, when that doesn t work out, they've devoted an inordinate amount of time to divorce, gittin another one and having great sex with him instead. The Sweet Potato... Read more

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) - Abridged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years—and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she... Read more

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic - Abridged

By: Kinky Friedman

Narrated by: Kinky Friedman

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favorite city: Austin.

Maybe you want to know which restaurant President Bush rates as his favorite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson’s home life (hint: Willie plays a lot of golf). Perhaps you want to get the best... Read more

My Kind of Place - Abridged

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the... Read more

Lost and Found Sound and Beyond

By: Jay Allison & The Kitchen Sisters

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume of the LOST & FOUND SOUND collection explores how recorded sound has shaped and captured the history of the last 100 years. Drawing from the archives and attics of the nation, this historic and intimate collection of radio documentaries presents a compelling array of sonic pioneers and legends, eccentric collectors, and... Read more

Bushworld

By: Maureen Dowd

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to... Read more

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and ... Read more

The Suburban You - Abridged

By: Mark Falanga

Narrated by: Mark Falanga

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman.

Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his game professionally, with a gorgeous corporate... Read more

I Thought My Father Was God - Abridged

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head: he would let the stories come to him. He invited listeners to submit brief, true-life anecdotes about events that touched their lives.And so the National Story Project was born. just over a year old, it's one of... Read more

Truth & Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Ann Patchett

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — PeopleNew York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.Ann Patchett and... Read more

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years—and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she... Read more

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic

By: Kinky Friedman

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jew boy, guides readers through the sights, sounds, food, and various and sundry oddities of his favorite Texas city. Known for live music and food, Austin is also the home of Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a number of other music legends. In this slightly insane and surprisingly... Read more

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

Lost In My Own Backyard - Abridged

By: Tim Cahill

Narrated by: Tim Cahill

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Let’s get lost together . . . ”

Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So... Read more

Time and Tide - Abridged

By: Frank Conroy

Narrated by: Frank Conroy

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged... Read more

Loud and Clear - Abridged

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.

“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Paul Auster & James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's... Read more

City of the Soul - Abridged

By: William Murray

Narrated by: William Murray

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.

Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most... Read more

Why I Love Baseball

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry King was a true-blue baseball fanatic. A lifelong love affair began the night he attended a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a kid in 1940s Brooklyn. That was a simpler era in America's history, a time when tickets to a game cost fifty cents and parish priests prayed for Gil Hodges to break out of a slump. In this heartfelt valentine to... Read more

The John Updike Audio Collection

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 5 hours 43 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

Nancy

By: Michael Deaver

Narrated by: Michael Deaver

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever publishedNancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily private one. Now Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know.The woman... Read more

Time and Tide

By: Frank Conroy

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged... Read more

Loud and Clear

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.

“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more

City of the Soul

By: William Murray

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.

Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most... Read more