Essays audiobooks
Paddle Your Own Canoe
By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.
Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining... Read more
Fieldwork
By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more
View audiobookA Thousand Feasts
By: Nigel Slater
Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with... Read more
View audiobookCharlie Hustle
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Ellen Adair & Keith O'Brien
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The... Read more
View audiobookThe Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - “The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays
By: Albert Camus
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric... Read more
View audiobookWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the... Read more
View audiobookCongratulations, The Best Is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.
“How is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.”—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
Food to Die For
By: Amy Bruni
Narrated by: Amy Bruni
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author. Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns,... Read more
View audiobookDear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Nora... Read more
View audiobookOpinions
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling... Read more
View audiobookWhat White People Can Do Next
By: Emma Dabiri
Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.
Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be agents of change... Read more
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
By: Amy Schumer
Narrated by: Amy Schumer
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year and Narration by the Author
#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades... Read more
David Mitchell: Back Story
By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: David Mitchell
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life. ... Read more
View audiobookRiding the Elephant
By: Craig Ferguson
Narrated by: Craig Ferguson
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is neither dead nor in a locked facility (at the... Read more
I've Been Thinking...
By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett’s answers have profoundly shaped our age of... Read more
View audiobookMy Own Devices
By: Dessa
Narrated by: Dessa
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I love the way Dessa puts words together. In her songs, in her poetry, in her short stories, and now in this beautiful and candid memoir. Wanna be an artist? Get this book.”
--Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Dessa writes beautifully about a wide range of topics, including science, music, and the pain that comes with being in love; it's a surprising and... Read more
Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Richard Armitage
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more
The Position of Spoons
By: Deborah Levy
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy. Deborah Levy’s vital literary voice speaks about many things. On footwear: “It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes without socks are destined to... Read more
View audiobookThe Leaving Season
By: Kelly McMasters
Narrated by: Kelly McMasters
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Kelly McMasters found herself in her mid-thirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was... Read more
View audiobookWhite Girls
By: Hilton Als
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books... Read more
Serious Face
By: Jon Mooallem
Narrated by: Jon Mooallem
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more
How to Read Nature
By: Tristan Gooley
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more
View audiobookA Nation of Women
By: Luisa Capetillo
Narrated by: Melanie Martinez & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo
A Penguin Classic
In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern... Read more