Essays audiobooks

A Parthenon in Pefki

By: Peter Barber

Narrated by: Christopher Kendrick

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

After perfecting their new apartment (complete with mini Parthenon) in a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens, Englishman Peter and his Greek wife Alexandra check out life in an authentic fishing village on a Greek island. They instantly fall in love with Pefki and plan to build a house there.But all is not as it seems. As Peter and his feisty wife... Read more

Notes From The Valley

By: Lynn Ferguson

Narrated by: Lynn Ferguson

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a journey through the messy and magnificent tapestry of real life with Scottish writer and performer Lynn Ferguson. In her debut collection of essays, "Notes from the Valley," Lynn invites you into her world in the San Fernando Valley, where she resides with her husband Mark, two sons, Arthur the dog, 10 chickens, and a buzzing... Read more

Winter's Playground

By: Timothy Whittenburg

Narrated by: James Wilson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover Whispers of Winter: A Journey Through Snow-Covered Memories
The pulse of adventure syncs with the crunch of fresh snow underfoot in this enchanting compendium, "Winter's Playground: Timeless Tales of Snowy Recreation." It captures the essence of winter sports and the soul in each snowflake. Dive into the evolution of skiing and... Read more

Small Fires

By: Rebecca May Johnson

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution, by a rising star in food writing

This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there... Read more

The Black Joy Project

By: Kleaver Cruz

Narrated by: Pascale Armand

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking and necessary love letter to a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, The Black Joy Project is Humans of New York meets The Black Book""A patchwork quilt of ... moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient emotional and verbal spice for the soul."" – Michael W. Twitty, culinary and cultural... Read more

Люстрацыі наадварот

By: Аляксандар Лукашук

Narrated by: Аляксандар Лукашук

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Сэрыя эсэ, якія гучалі на хвалях "Радыё Свабода" восеньню 2013г. Read more

On the Nature of Things

By: Lucretius

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour, he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not... Read more

Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century. In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard aimed to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed... Read more

Seelenverwandte

By: Dankmar H. Isleib

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mensch, erhebe dich nicht über die Tiere! Sie sind sündlos, du aber mit deiner Erhabenheit befleckst die Erde" In Anbetracht dessen, was gerade heute, im Herbst des Jahres 2023 auf der Welt geschieht, kann man Dostojewski doch nur zustimmen. Allein mit Liebe kann man dem von Menschen gemachtem Chaos, dem Hass, der Dummheit begegnen. Wenn... Read more

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door

By: Gordon S. Jackson

Narrated by: Matthew Stuart Jackson

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door is a compilation of 101 original and thought-provoking analogies and parables that serve as devotionals or illustrations for the more mature Christian. Each entry's originality provides the reader with fresh insights into his or her faith.The entries, drawn from topics like sports, politics, science and nature,... Read more

El gran corruptor

By: Elena Chávez

Narrated by: Karina Castillo

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

«Estas son páginas notables por su contenido explosivo y revelador, y una radiografía de la metástasis de ese cáncer alimentado por el gran corruptor.» —Sergio Negrete Cárdenas Tras el éxito de El rey del cash, Elena Chávez nos sumerge una vez más en las entrañas de un sistema político donde la corrupción parece haberse convertido en la norma. A... Read more

Songs on Endless Repeat

By: Anthony Veasna So

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late... Read more

We Are All Armenian

By: Aram Mrjoian

Narrated by: MW Cartozian Wilson & Katiana Sarkissian

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora.



In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and their descendants have written of a vast range of experiences using storytelling and activism, two important aspects of Armenian culture. Wrestling with questions of home and self, diasporan Armenian... Read more

What Really Happens in Vegas

By: James Patterson & Mark Seal

Narrated by: Phil Morris

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through “lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus).

“Wild and wonderful…The magic of Sin City doesn’t just happen. Patterson and Seal tell its secrets in beautifully presented snippets that often overlap not just... Read more

Essays

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"George Orwell (1903-50) is known around the world for his satirical novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he was arguably at his best in the essay form. Below, we've selected and introduced ten of Orwell's best essays for the interested newcomer to his non-fiction, but there are many more we could have added.... Read more

Seniors' Stories Volume 9

By: NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Narrated by: Rowena Robinson, Janine Penfold & David Tredinnick

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Volume 9 of Seniors' Stories displaying the thoughts, emotions, lifestyles, pleasures, disappointments, elation, sadness, and every emotion we have been willing to share of the exciting age group known in Australia as our Seniors. No longer are we invisible, we are an integral part of Society’s woven cloth of generations. Many of the... Read more

Ciudad Presidio

By: Santiago Gamboa

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ciudad Presidio es una clara demostración de que el derecho a la lectura y la escritura es, ante todo, pura potencia de afirmación de la vida, puro combate cuerpo a cuerpo contra la muerte". Mario Mendoza Este es el audiolibro más personal de Santiago Gamboa. Realizado durante casi tres años, contiene una serie de reflexiones honestas y... Read more

Malleable Forms

By: Meeka Walsh

Narrated by: Meeka Walsh

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For 30 years Meeka Walsh has been the Editor of the Canadian art magazine, Border Crossings. A selection of her much-admired essays published in each issue of that magazine have been selected for this substantial book. “Kim Gordon: Star Turns” examines the memoir of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon takes the reader on a trip that includes... Read more

A Left-Handed Woman

By: Judith Thurman

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY



A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award–winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.



Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed... Read more

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six... Read more

The Loneliness Files

By: Athena Dixon

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness.



Living alone as a middle-aged woman without... Read more

Party Like It's 2044

By: Joni B. Cole

Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Joni B. Cole worries that Vlad the Impaler may be a distant cousin. She feuds with a dead medium. She thinks (or overthinks) about insulting birthday cards, power trips, and the real reason writers hate Amazon. And she wishes, really wishes, all those well-meaning people would stop talking about Guatemala. At once irreverent and thought... Read more

This Won't Help

By: Eli Grober

Narrated by: Eli Grober

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Part catharsis, part diagnosis, this divinely wry collection from New Yorker and McSweeney's satirist Eli Grober will strike a chord with those who are dismayed by the chaos of our times. None of it will help—but a few good laughs won't hurt. Probably.



There's a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don't worry. It will end. This... Read more