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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

Abroad in Japan

By: Chris Broad

Narrated by: Chris Broad

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and... Read more

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

By: Devrie Brynn Donalson

Narrated by: Devrie Brynn Donalson

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A refreshingly honest, wonderfully humorous, and entirely inspiring exploration of change, fear, and what it really means to be alone, from everyone’s favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson.Dear Reader Just Doing Your Best,Give me a minute, and I’ll tell you a story. I’ll tell you about my junior high soulmate, my haunted house, and running... Read more

In the Form of a Question

By: Amy Schneider

Narrated by: Amy Schneider

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm and funny.” —The New York Times * “Refreshingly no-holds-barred.” —USA TODAY * “Delightful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An inspirational, witty, and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!—an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself as well as a passionate “ode to learning”... 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

The Book of Five Rings

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When you attain the way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.'Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on... Read more

Self Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of a calamitous financial collapse four years earlier. His positive vision for the power of individualism and personal responsibility was issued in a climate of panic and uncertainty, at a time when the values of... Read more

Fräulein Draußens Gespür für Wildnis

By: Kathrin Heckmann

Narrated by: Henriette Schreurs

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

»Kathrin Heckmann ist es gelungen, abstrakte Vorstellungen von Wildnis durch persönliche und lebendige Schilderungen zu bereichern. Das macht Mut und inspiriert.« Thorsten Hoyer, Chefredakteur Wandermagazin Die Sehnsucht nach Wildnis zog Kathrin Heckmann alias Fräulein Draußen jahrelang raus in die Welt. Aber muss man wirklich weit reisen, um... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and... Read more

Cocorico

By: Mickaël Bergeron

Narrated by: Mickaël Bergeron

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Mickaël Bergeron nous arrive avec un cri de ralliement pour ses semblables, dans lequel il plaide pour un véritable leadership au sein de la masculinité, qui contribuerait à remettre en question des normes, comportements et politiques sociales. Il estime que les féministes se tapent tout le boulot et que les hommes ne font pas leur part. Une... Read more

Cake

By: Andrew Baker

Narrated by: Andrew Baker

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.’ PRUE LEITH The British take cakes seriously. We hold strong opinions about how to bake a brownie with the perfect squidge, the correct proportions of icing to sponge, and whether it’s jam or cream first on... Read more

Road to Nowhere

By: Chris Donnelly

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It... Read more

Pleasure of Thinking

By: Wang Xiaobo

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.



Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and... Read more

The View From Rat Lake

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.

"In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them are: 'remote trout lake,' 'fish up to thirteen pounds,' 'the place the guides fish on their days off,'"... Read more

Subterráneo

By: Will Hunt

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Una reflexión sobre nuestra atracción por la oscuridad, el poder del misterio y ese eterno deseo humano de conectar con lo que no podemos ver. Cuando Will Hunt tenía dieciséis años, descubrió un túnel abandonado que pasaba por debajo de su casa en Providence, Rhode Island. Sus primeras incursiones en él le inspiraron una incesante fascinación... Read more

ذئاب - Abridged

By: طلال الطويرقي

Narrated by: محمد نصر الله

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ذئاب شعر- طلال الطويرقي يتناول الشاعر الماضي وتفاصيله كما يتناول الحاضر وآلامه، مع الاهتمام بالصور الشعرية عبر ما تحتويه من دلالات تعطي النص قيمته العالية كما نرى في هذه الابيات: الان تتسع الغيوم لغينا والبحر للحدقات يا وله المسافر حين تكتمل العبارة دونما ذكرى و لذا سنترك كل شيء يافعاً للماء كيما يدرك الماضون وجهتنا و ننسى كل ماتركوا لنا. Read more

El Kybalion

By: Tres Iniciados

Narrated by: Elisabet Egea

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

El Kybalion es uno de los más importantes compendios de sabiduría de todos los tiempos, que explica los siete principios del hermetismo postulados por Hermes Trismegisto.
Mentalismo, correspondencia, vibración, polaridad, ritmo, causa efecto, y género.
La autoría se atrubuye a un grupo anónimo de personas autodenominado Los Tres Iniciados, y que... Read more

Deep Blue

By: Steve Backshall

Narrated by: Steve Backshall

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Take a deep breath

Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists and explorers has... Read more

I'd Rather Not

By: Robert Skinner

Narrated by: Robert Skinner

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"A decidedly skewed, hilarious collection of life reflections and colorful storytelling." — Kirkus Reviews

An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairs

The unlikely story of how a failed dishwasher, tour guide,... Read more

Unreliable Narrator

By: Aparna Nancherla

Narrated by: Aparna Nancherla

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Yorker Best Books of 2023

NPR's Books We Love 2023

“A deeply honest and funny look at how exhausting it can be to live a human life, Unreliable Narrator is a book for anyone who wants to laugh and feel less alone.”—Amy Poehler  

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and out, by the... Read more

For the Culture

By: Klancy Miller

Narrated by: Klancy Miller, Ariel Blake, Susan Dalian, Janin...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as a pastry chef, recipe developer,... Read more

حلاوة القهوة في مرارتها - Abridged

By: عبد الله المغلوث

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

حلاوة القهوة في المهرجان سألت رجلاً هندي الاصل: هل تريد يعضا من القهوة العربية؟ أجابني: بالطبع، فقد سمعت عنها كثيراً لكن للأسف لم يحالفني الحظ لأتذوقها، قلت: اليوم ستتذوقها من منبعها الأصلي، فهذه قهوة عربية خالصة، كنت متلهفا لمشاهدة رد فعله، لكنه فاجأني حينما قال: أريد بعض السكر، توقفت لبرهة لأستوعب و أنا أتسائل في نفسي، سكر وقهوة عربية!! قلت له... Read more

To Walk It Is To See It

By: Kathy Elkind

Narrated by: Kathy Elkind

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2018, Kathy Elkind and her husband decided to take a grown-up “gap year” in Europe and walk the 1,400-mile Grande Randonnée Cinq (GR5) across The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.At fifty-seven, Kathy has chosen comfort over hardship: she and Jim get to indulge in warm beds and delicious regional food every night and croissants in... Read more

How We Fish

By: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey

Narrated by: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids... Read more