Essays audiobooks

Shut Up, Your Kid Is Not That Great

By: Jason Cole

Narrated by: Phil Thron

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you a self-proclaimed "momager" or "dadager?" Do you think your kid is the ultimate best? This is the book for you!



Dear parents everywhere—we get it, you love your kid. But, let's face it: no matter how much you praise them, your kid is most likely not the next child prodigy. Be that as it may, we are pretty sure the neighbors are tired of... Read more

How to Earn a Fortune

By: Boris Berezovsky

Narrated by: Simon Elgar

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1990s, nobody in Russia stood above Boris Berezovsky – not even the President of Russia. He built his estimated fortune of $40bn with interests in oil, media, banking, and aviation by cutting deals with bureaucrats and fellow businessmen, rapidly intimidating and charming his way to wealth.
After a change of guard in the Kremlin in the... Read more

La sangre de los libros

By: Santiago Posteguillo

Narrated by: Javier Ruiz Taboada

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Santiago Posteguillo nos sorprende ahora con un fascinante recorrido por los enigmas más famosos de la literatura. Asesinatos, suicidios, duelos, condenas a muerte, guerras, eclipses, vampiros, misterios, juicios… Detrás de los grandes libros se esconde mucha más sangre de lo que uno podría imaginar. ¿Por qué Pushkin murió en un duelo? ¿Es... Read more

Ces audacieuses qui ont façonné le Québec

By: Gilles Proulx & Louis-Philippe Messier

Narrated by: Gilles Proulx

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Nous savons peu de choses de ces femmes qui ont contribué à façonner le Québec. Pour trop de gens, Germaine Guèvremont, Marcelle Ferron ou Lucille Teasdale ne sont guère plus que des noms vaguement familiers. Pourtant,sans la volonté, la détermination et l'audace de ces femmes exceptionnelles, le Québec que nous connaissons aujourd'hui... Read more

Una nueva vida

By: Lucia Berlin

Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

«Descubrir a Lucia Berlin fue como dar con un alma gemela».
Pedro Almodóvar, Babelia Este volumen, preparado en exclusiva por su hijo Jeff Berlin para los lectores en español, reúne quince relatos inéditos en nuestro idioma, diez de ellos publicados originalmente en sus libros de cuentos, pero no incluidos en Manual para mujeres de la limpieza ni... Read more

Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space: Series 1-3

By: Ellie Taylor

Narrated by: Ellie Taylor & Robin Morgan

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

All twelve episodes of Ellie Taylor's hilarious show, in which she explores controversial subjects with help from the studio audience and sidekick Robin Morgan

Comedian, actor and bestselling author Ellie Taylor welcomes us to her 'safe space', a place where anyone can air their views, gripes and dislikes without fear of persecution. Assisting... Read more

Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio

By: Liang Qichao

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evil harvest of what previous generations sowed.'

The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to... Read more

Onkant!

By: Hendrik Hancke

Narrated by: Anrich Herbst

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

 “TOE EK IN MY EERSTE WÊRELDBEKERWEDSTRYD UITDRAF, WAS DAAR IETS SOOS 54 000 MENSE. JY SIEN NET KAMERAFLITSE, DIS AMPER HIPNOTIES . . . DIE COACH SKREE VIR MY: ‘CHUCKY, WAARMEE IS JY BESIG?’ TOE BESEF EK EK IS BESIG OM VIR DIE MENSE TE WAAI.” – LOUIS ‘CHUCKY’ VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Het jy al ooit gewonder hoe 50 000 ekstatiese ondersteuners op die... Read more

A Brief History of Intelligence

By: Max S. Bennett

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can... Read more

The Upstairs Delicatessen

By: Dwight Garner

Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies.



Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of... Read more

The Wonderful World of James Herriot

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Anna Madeley, Nicholas Ralph & Rosie Page

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"This collection gives listeners a peek into Herriot’s life, tracing parallels between his time on rural homesteads and his well-loved tales, and inviting listeners to sit back, relax and reminisce about more peaceful times."—BookPage

This audiobook is read by Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley, stars of the PBS Masterpiece television series All... Read more

A Memoir of My Former Self

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, B...

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFile

THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life... Read more

My Venice and Other Essays

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Insightful essays on Italy and the arts from the New York Times bestselling authorDonna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have often been praised for their insight into culture, politics, family life, and the history of Venice, one of the world’s most treasured cities and her home for over thirty years. My... Read more

Un mundo asombroso

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Lía Gómez

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Crónica de una sensibilidad estética y una reflexión lírica acerca de la belleza de todo lo que nos rodea. La poeta Aimee Nezhukumatathil nos sorprende con una colección de ensayos sobre el mundo natural donde nos revela cómo los animales y las plantas pueden enseñarnos e inspirarnos. De niña, Aimee vivió en distintos lugares: Kansas, Arizona,... Read more

Ñamérica

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 30 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*Prix Roger Caillois 2023* *Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* La crónica definitiva de un territorio inacabable: Hispanoamérica. Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupaciones y esperanzas. La conocemos mal;... Read more

La democracia ausente

By: Roger Bartra

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuarta edición, corregida y aumentada, de esta reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana. A más de treinta y cinco años de su publicación, la presente obra se ha convertido en una reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana y de lo que entonces,... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

By: Carl Zimmer & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, ...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction.... Read more

The Best American Food Writing 2023

By: Mark Bittman & Silvia Killingsworth

Narrated by: Elyse Dinh, Will Tulin, Carolina Hoyos, Dylan M...

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

""Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food’s sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It’s a standout addition to the series."" —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook... Read more

Legitimate Kid

By: Aida Rodriguez

Narrated by: Aida Rodriguez

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Aida Rodriguez is part of the next wave of talented comedic storytellers that I dreamt about when I was trying to break down barriers in the industry. Besides being a fierce Latina powerhouse, she’s FUNNY AS HELL! So buy this book. No really, BUY THIS BOOK!!! I don’t want any problems, ya heard?!”—John Leguizamo, Emmy and Tony Award–winning... Read more

The Dish

By: Andrew Friedman

Narrated by: Michael Lomonaco

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story."" —Wall Street JournalAcclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern... Read more

Funny You Should Say That

By: Gerry Dee

Narrated by: Michael Neeb

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Canada’s top comedians shares the funniest stories from his life and career in this collection of hilarious essaysFor more than two decades, Gerry Dee has made audiences laugh, first as a hard-working stand-up comedian, and then as the star of his own CBC television program, Mr. D. Dee became a physical education teacher, thinking he... Read more

The Best American Essays 2023

By: Vivian Gornick & Robert Atwan

Narrated by: Will Tulin, Marie Hoffman, Elena Rey, Elyse Din...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves... Read more

Touch the Future

By: John Lee Clark

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch.



Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an... Read more

Baseball

By: Steven P. Gietschier

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball explores the history of organized baseball during the mid-twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded.... Read more