Essays audiobooks

Plums for Months

By: Zaji Cox

Narrated by: Stephanie Weeks

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats.She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother.Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores... Read more

¿Por qué importa la filosofía?

By: Carlos Peña

Narrated by: Claudio Munda

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"¿Cómo justificar la reflexión filosófica a la luz de esos objetivos de política pública que la filosofía no es capaz por sí misma de satisfacer?"
En este necesario y perspicaz ensayo, Carlos Peña se hace cargo críticamente del menos precio del que, de un tiempo a esta parte, es objeto la filosofía. En base a acusaciones de despilfarro e... Read more

La conquista de la felicidad

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Ángel Morón

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

La felicidad ¿es un estado o una búsqueda? Esta obra afirma que lo segundo: el ser humano se debe mostrar activo en la eliminación de las trabas al despliegue de la felicidad, comenzando por eliminar esas pasiones egocéntricas que son la envidia, el miedo o la conciencia de pecado y reforzando las que impulsan hacia fuera de sí mismo, que... Read more

Pages From My Passport

By: Amelia Dalton

Narrated by: Amelia Dalton

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Amelia Dalton, fresh from touring the Scottish islands, takes on the world and sets up exclusive holidays in remote places for a new cruise ship. As she scopes out her itineraries, she explores inaccessible islands and survives a hotel fire, a bomb in a palace, being stung by a scorpion and thrown into jail. Meanwhile, she's being wooed from... Read more

The (Big) Year That Flew By

By: Arjan Dwarshuis

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale of one passionate birder’s record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents—in just one year—to see 6,852 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct. When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”—the legendary record for birdwatching—he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the... Read more

고맙습니다

By: 올리버 색스

Narrated by: 장호비

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

오토바이와 주기율표를 사랑하고, 암페타민에 중독됐던 아웃사이더 올리버 색스 여든두 살, 죽음을 앞둔 그가 우리 모두에게 삶에 대한 따뜻한 감사를 전합니다. 올리버 색스가 세상을 떠났을 때 전 세계 언론은 비통해 했다. 그가 뛰어난 뇌신경학자였기 때문도, 《아내를 모자로 착각한 남자》 《뮤지코필리아》 《온 더 무브》와 같은 베스트셀러 저자이기 때문만도 아니었다. 삶의 마지막 순간까지 상처 입은 인간을 따뜻하게 바라보며 감싸 안던 이 시대의 지성이 더이상 우리와 함께 할 수 없다는 사실에 대한 깊은 탄식이었다. 올리버 색스만큼 의학적 드라마와 인간적 드라마를 솔직하면서도 유려하게 포착해내는 데 성공한 작가는... Read more

The Power of Trees

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Another love letter from Wohlleben to the green world… makes the case for how we should allow forests throughout the world to regrow and in the process help heal not only the climate but us, as well.”—Lydia Millet, Oprah Daily

An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through... Read more

In Search of Perfumes

By: Dominique Roques

Narrated by: Jean Brassard

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry’s leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose oil? One million roses, each handpicked. When it comes to... Read more

Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex

By: Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon & Lawrence Koval

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.

For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an Apology

Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large... Read more

Got Your Number

By: Mike Greenberg & Paul Hembekides

Narrated by: Mike Greenberg

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends... Read more

Look for Me There

By: Luke Russert

Narrated by: Luke Russert

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world’s most stunning destinations, he visits the internal places of grief, family, faith, ambition, and purpose—with intense self-reflection, honesty, and courage."—Savannah Guthrie, coanchor... Read more

What Women Want - Sieben Geschichten über Begehren, Macht und Liebe (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein faszinierender Einblick in die weibliche Seele und die Arbeit einer Psychotherapeutin - fantastisch erzählt. Terri steht kurz vor der Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten, doch sie flüchtet sich immer wieder in One-Night-Stands mit Frauen. Warum? Tia erlebte schon als Kind, als ihr Vater ihre Mutter betrog, dass weiße Frauen scheinbar liebenswerter... Read more

Digital Pilgrims

By: Adrián Sicilia

Narrated by: Jennifer Moule

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The present has the texture of the future. Hyper-digitalization has made all questions outdated, especially: what are we going to do? For decades, we have been inhabiting and moving within the Digital Environment. Today, the unavoidable question is: what and who are we going to be?Digital Pilgrims proposes novel and urgent debates for a society... Read more

Dickens und Prince - Unvergleichliche Genies (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Thomas Nicolai

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein warmherziges und unterhaltsames Hörbuch über Kunst, Kreativität und die überraschenden Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem viktorianischen Romancier Charles Dickens und dem modernen amerikanischen Rockstar Prince. Mit der Bewunderung eines Fans und seinem typischen Humor und Witz zeigt uns Nick Hornby die kuriosen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen zwei auf... Read more

Andar y ver

By: Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez

Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

«Hallazgos de la poesía, revelaciones arquitectónicas, mensajes del pincel o la batuta, sabiduría del bisturí.» Este libro es una colección de ejercicios de admiración, invitaciones a recorrer parajes de maravilla. Con una prosa precisa ytransparente, Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez escribe acerca de obras y artistas que lo han tocado, que le han... Read more

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things

By: Katy Kelleher

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.

April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, Christian Science Monitor, All Arts, and the Next Big Idea Club
One of... Read more

Under the Henfluence

By: Tove Danovich

Narrated by: Tove Danovich

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for food. Yet most people rarely interact with chickens or know much about them. In Under the Henfluence, culture reporter Tove Danovich explores the lives of these quirky, mysterious birds who stole her heart the moment her first... Read more

ForkFight!

By: Mark H. Brezinski & Mark Stuertz

Narrated by: Mark H. Brezinski

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The most compelling, insightful, and white-knuckled journey behind the restaurant curtain since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.

Mark H. Brezinski is a forty-five-year veteran of the dynamic restaurant industry. A graduate of the famed School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, Mark went on to create or co-create multiple... Read more

Strong Female Character

By: Hanna Flint

Narrated by: Hanna Flint

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in this personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to understanding herself and the world we live in. A staunch feminist of mixed-race heritage, Hanna has succeeded in an industry not designed for people like her. Interweaving anecdotes from familial and personal experiences—episodes of... Read more

Dune and Philosophy

By: Kevin S. Decker

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Nas Mehdi

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene... Read more

The Last Empty Places

By: Peter Stark

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Part travel adventure, part history, part exploration



In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska, and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of... Read more

Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 109 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as-well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. It rapidly acquired readership throughout the world when published,... Read more

Capital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3

By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 104 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Volume 1: Living in exile in England,... Read more

Capital: Volume 3

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 46 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove conclusively that capitalism is inherently unworkable as a permanent system for society. Here, Marx asserts that... Read more