Essays audiobooks

A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen

By: Sally Abé

Narrated by: Sally Abé

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'Sally really tells it how it is . . . This book will be a go to for those needing that bit of bravery and resilience in a world that needs more people like her' CANDICE BROWN

'Wow. Sally's book is an insightful, honest account of a young cook's journey to an inspirational chef' ANGELA HARTNETT

'She doesn't so much pull back the curtains as yank... Read more

A Dog Named Mattis

By: Mark Tappan

Narrated by: Mark Tappan

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.Sergeant Mark Tappan shares a unique bond with his K9 partner Mattis, one of the most decorated police... Read more

World Class

By: Grant Wahl

Narrated by: Dr. Céline Gounder, Mark Mravic, Eric Wahl & Al...

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“This collection of Grant’s work is a great testament to not only what he did when he was here, but what he’s still doing to impact others.”—LeBron James

The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work—a masterclass in the art of sportswriting

After Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar,... Read more

Traveling Without Moving

By: Taiyon J. Coleman

Narrated by: Keyonni James

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.



In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate essays from her life: her childhood in Chicago—growing up in poverty with four siblings and a single mother—and... Read more

Impossible City

By: Simon Kuper

Narrated by: Tim Frances

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.

When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other
plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the... Read more

12 Trips in 12 Months

By: Jen Ruiz

Narrated by: Jen Ruiz

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A LibraryReads pick for Notable NonfictionOne of Book Riot’s 10 Best New Nonfiction Books for AdultsBestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same.The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz... Read more

Inteligencia Artificial. La tecnología que cambiará el mundo - Abridged

By: Roberto Velasco

Narrated by: Sergio Huescar (voz digital)

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Los avances tecnológicos invaden velozmente nuestras vidas y desbordan las capacidades normativas de las Administraciones públicas, todo bajo el control remoto de unos gigantes empresariales que pretenden rediseñar los hábitos sociales en función de sus intereses económicos. En este mundo de escasas reglas, se presenta la Inteligencia... Read more

El animal inferior

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Benjamín Urbina

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

El animal inferior incluye cuatro textos ingeniosos y desopilantes de Mark Twain traducidos especialmente para los lectores latinoamericanos. Estos nos presentan un llamado a la desobediencia de las niñas, un candidato presidencial tan perverso que saca réditos políticos de ello, un científico que comprueba que el hombre es el peor animal y un... Read more

All Things Are Too Small

By: Becca Rothfeld

Narrated by: Ruth Crawford

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more

Las deliciosas historias de la taberna Kamogawa (Taberna Kamogawa 2)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva entrega del fenómeno del cosy crime japonés que ha seducido a miles de lectores Un misterioso anuncio de una sola línea en una revista culinaria, sin número de teléfono ni dirección: ¡quienes deseen visitar la taberna Kamogawa tienen que confiar en un toque de magia para llegar hasta ella! Solo los asiduos y los curiosos, guiados por... Read more

The Headmaster

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was a delight to re-read and record The Headmaster. My Deerfield days came back to me in a great rush. ... So much of Mr. Boyden's teaching focused on what boys needed to grow up to be adults in society, with a particular emphasis on giving back to the community.” —Edoardo Ballerini

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment... Read more

(R)évolution de conscience(s) – Politique et spiritualité

By: Lionel Cruzille

Narrated by: Lionel Cruzille

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Quel point commun y a-t-il entre spiritualité, médias et politique ? L'attention. Médias, industriels et politiques se l'arrachent, c'est le célèbre « temps de cerveaux disponible ». Or l'attention est la clé de notre liberté intérieure. C'est aussi le cœur même de toute vie spirituelle. Dès lors, comment, dans ce monde où notre vigilance est... Read more

Frying Pork Chops Naked

By: Eric Litsky

Narrated by: Eric Litsky

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Litsky brings us on a funny, rollicking, heartfelt trip down memory lane, from coming of age adventures, to growing up and still being the free-spirited and roguish adult that keeps the neighborhood on its toes.By all counts, you could say Eric Litsky had a pretty standard freewheeling childhood. Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was... Read more

On Life and Death

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"On Life and Death" is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, which was included in the collection Parva Naturalia ("short treatises on nature"). The collection consists of seven essays discussing various natural phenomena related to the body and soul.  The culmination of Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia" is the definition of the... Read more

The Parva Naturalia. On Memory

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On Memory is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia. The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts... Read more

Baseball: The Movie

By: Noah Gittell

Narrated by: Noah Gittell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and... Read more

My Mets Bible

By: Evan Roberts

Narrated by: Evan Roberts

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Love Letter To New York Mets Fandom—the triumphs, the heartbreak, and everything in between.Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring... Read more

More Home Cooking

By: Laurie Colwin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small culinary accomplishments and discoveries that occur in her kitchen” (Chicago Tribune). Lucky... Read more

The Art of Dying

By: Peter Schjeldahl

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra... Read more

Schlafen - Leben, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

By: Theresia Enzensberger

Narrated by: Theresia Enzensberger

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Theresia Enzensberger kann nicht schlafen. Also schreibt sie ein Buch über den Schlaf und folgt dabei den verschiedenen Stadien, die wir in der Nacht durchleben. So beginnt sie in der zähneknirschenden Leichtschlafphase mit einem Essay über die Moralisierung von Schlaf, Traum als politische Metapher und die Folgen allgemeinen Schlafmangels. Fast... Read more

Altern - Leben, Band 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Elke Heidenreich

Narrated by: Elke Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will alt sein. Der Widerspruch ist absurd, das Leiden daran real. Wie lernen wir, so gut wie möglich damit zurechtzukommen? Geht das, alt werden und ein erfülltes Leben führen? Mit ihren über 80 Jahren hat sich Elke Heidenreich mit dem Altwerden beschäftigt. Herausgekommen ist dabei ein Buch, wie nur sie es... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie II - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les Dictateurs - Partie I - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie III - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more