Essays audiobooks

Lost and Found Sound

By: The Kitchen Sisters & Jay Allison

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Broadcast weekly through 1999, continuing monthly through 2000, Lost & Found Sound chronicles, reflects, and celebrates the human experience in rare recordings and "sonic snapshots" submitted by... Read more

Tales from the Tummy Trilogy - Abridged

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Calvin Trillin is America’s funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cooking—not haute cuisine but genuine good food. Read more

You Go Girl! Winning the Woman's Way

By: Kim Doren & Charlie Jones

Narrated by: Matilda Novak

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of first-person insights, thoughts, and stories from successful women in the world of sports, including Mia Hamm; Gabrielle Reece; Marion Jones; Kerri Strug; Chris Evert; Nancy Lopez; Picabo Street and more. Read more

Bella Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

Babyhood

By: Paul Reiser

Narrated by: Paul Reiser

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm going to be totally honest.  This is not the kind of audiobook that can help you.  It's not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect."  It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession.  (Although a cousin of mine who sells carpeting to doctors' offices not only found it "insightful" and "informative," but... Read more

In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.

His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more

A Walk in the Woods - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times 
 
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more

I Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.

Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more

Sinbad's Guide to Life - Abridged

By: Sinbad

Narrated by: Sinbad

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious guide to life from a man who has "lived large and fallen hard--lost every job I ever had, messed up everybody I've ever dated, been kicked out of every institution I've ever been in"--and still survived; offering observations on courage ("Lots of guys brag they'd fight off anything to save their woman. Yeah, right--there is no sense... Read more

The Rants - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's good news for those that rage at the  evening news, shake their heads at Washington's  business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from  social crisis to political crisis to economic  crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the  nation by its lapels.

Miller respects no  boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more

Rants Redux - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are Americans so disinterested in politics? Because we can be. Democracy is voluntary. And our lack of interest hasn't happened overnight. It can be traced directly back to our ever-decreasing attention spans. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez-small, sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head.

Why has flying in... Read more

Ranting Again - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage.  This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.

Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more

Bella Tuscany - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

Eiger Dreams - Abridged

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Jon Krakauer

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.

In Pakistan, the fearsome... Read more

Faithful Travelers - Abridged

By: James Dodson

Narrated by: James Dodson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across America in search of clear-running streams, swift elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature... Read more

On Mexican Time - Abridged

By: Tony Cohan

Narrated by: Tony Cohan

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... Read more

I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more

The Great Republic - Abridged

By: Winston S. Churchill

Narrated by: Winston S. Churchill

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of the  ... Read more

Neither Here Nor There - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe.  Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.  As he makes his way round this incredibly... Read more

Confederates in the Attic - Abridged

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

Life Stories

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Amy Irving, Philip Bosco & Alton Fitzgerald White

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the... Read more

River Horse - Abridged

By: William Heat-Moon & William Least heat-moon

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes,... Read more

How Paul Robeson Saved My Life

By: Carl Reiner

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-time Emmy Award winner and icon of American comedy, Carl Reiner, performs a sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of two dozen multi-dimensional short stories— some true and others merely tales. Included in this collection are stories about a man too handsome for his personality, a lifetime bond that is created by a football... Read more

Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 4

By: Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this the conclusion of the four part special series we join the participants for a private audience with... Read more