Essays audiobooks

Europe—Culture Smart!

By: Barry Tomalin, Belen Aguado Viguer & Marian Meaney

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 24 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips... Read more

On Women

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism

Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar... Read more

How to Write About Africa

By: Binyavanga Wainaina

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality

“A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian

“Africa is the only continent you can... Read more

Asia—Culture Smart!

By: Paul Norbury, Becky Stephen, Kathy Flower & Ind...

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to China, Japan, and India. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on... Read more

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

By: unknown

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon & Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones! He's both a mild-mannered archaeology professor and an intrepid adventurer traversing the globe in search of lost artifacts. Whether seeking the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt, the Sankara Stones in India, the Holy Grail in Turkey, or a mysterious crystal skull in Peru, Indy's adventures never... Read more

The Last Ride of the Pony Express

By: Will Grant

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.  The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit... Read more

Animal Joy

By: Nuar Alsadir

Narrated by: Kristin James

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's... Read more

The Heartbeat of the Wild

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both. For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth's most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back... Read more

الجبتانا: أسفار التكوين المصرية - Abridged

By: علي علي الألفي" & "مانيتون السمنودي

Narrated by: محمد الخميس

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لايزال التاريخ المصرى القديم زاخرًا بالنصوص والأسرار التي تتجلى تباعًا لتؤكد فرادة المصريين، بعض هذه النصوص تم كشفها والبعض الآخر لايزال مصيره مجهولًا، وربما تعرض للمحو أو التعتيم عليه، لدحض حقيقة تاريخية أو عقائدية تؤكد سبق الحضارة المصرية. هذا ما يتناوله كتاب «الجبتانا.. أسفار التكوين المصرية» للمؤرخ المصري الشهير «مانيتون السمنودي»، الذي ولد... Read more

El futuro recordado

By: Irene Vallejo

Narrated by: Valeria Zenil

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

«Los libros de Irene Vallejo, claros e inteligentes, se leen muy bien e invitan a pensar. En la mejor línea humanista.» -CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL La aparente contradicción que da título a este libro es la premisa central de los breves ensayos que contiene: la certeza de que en cada paso que damos está la huella de un mundo que parece haberse quedado... Read more

Alguien habló de nosotros

By: Irene Vallejo

Narrated by: Valeria Zenil

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

«Se puede ser un filólogo magistral y al mismo tiempo escribir como los ángeles. Irene Vallejo riza el rizo de la comunicación hasta convertir su diálogo con el lector en una fiesta literaria.» LUIS ALBERTO DE CUENCA La sociedad contemporánea vive inmersa en la inmediatez. Prioriza, ante todo, lo nuevo y lo superficial; no tiene tiempo para... Read more

Lo que cuenta el caldero

By: Leonor Espinosa

Narrated by: Mariana Martí

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Por primera vez Leonor Espinosa, la chef más destacada de América Latina en la actualidad, publica las crónicas culinarias que ha escrito a lo largo de su trayectoria y en los miles de recorridos que ha hecho por Colombia. Lo que cuenta el caldero reúne el legado gastronómico Leonor Espinosa a través de paisajes sonoros y humeantes y sus... Read more

Football And How To Survive It

By: Pat Nevin

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL FOOTBALLER: this new book is even better. There were times as I read Pat Nevin's account of his years running - or, trying to run - Motherwell, I had to remind myself to breathe. It's a thrilling read - funny, nerve-wracking, precise and very, very human' - Roddy Doyle

So, you fell into football... Read more

Everybody Come Alive

By: Marcie Alvis Walker

Narrated by: Marcie Alvis Walker

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we’ve inherited—from the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends.

“Marcie Alvis Walker writes with an honesty that is both dauntless and compassionate.”—Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh

In her debut book, Everybody Come... Read more

Apron Strings

By: Jan Wong

Narrated by: Anne Glatt

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. On their journey,... Read more

Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Owen...

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these... Read more

Truth Telling

By: Michelle Good

Narrated by: Megan Tooley

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER High Plains Book AwardFINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyFINALIST for the Indigenous Voices AwardLonglisted for the First Nation Communities READA bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.With authority and insight,... Read more

Also sprach Zarathustra 2

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Zarathustra kehrt zurück! Auch dieses Mal, im zweiten Teil, wird er nicht müde zu streiten, zu provozieren und sich bis in die höchsten Höhen des menschlich Denk-und Fühlbaren zu exaltieren. Doch dazwischen gibt es immer wieder berührende Momente größter Empfindsamkeit und einsamen Leidens, die diesen zweiten Teil, vielleicht mehr noch als den... Read more

Why Men Are Suspicious of Yoga

By: Robert "robear" Isenberg

Narrated by: Phillip Nathaniel Freeman

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the captivating and humorous world of Robert "robear" Isenberg in his latest audiobook, "Why Men Are Suspicious of Yoga: Some Funny Stories and Some Not So Funny," narrated by the talented Phillip Nathaniel Freeman and published by Audiobook Publishing Services.Grady Harp raves, "...Jump in for a series of fine escapes from the pickles... Read more

Siete ensayos sobre la peste

By: Carlos Gamerro

Narrated by: Tomás Cortés

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La primera historia cultural de la peste: un recorrido erudito y reflexivo por epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes, de la mano de Carlos Gamerro, uno de los novelistas y ensayistas más prestigiosos de la actualidad.
Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y... Read more

The 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

Hells Angels : Les années de Plomb

By: Daniel Proulx

Narrated by: Winston McQuade

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Le destin du plus puissant des gangs criminels canadiens actuels s’est joué dans le dernier quart du 20e siècle, de 1980 à 2000. En vingt ans à peine, une bande de jeunes délinquants jadis désargentés, brutaux et asociaux, liés par leur amour de la Harley-Davidson et par leur quête de sensations fortes, ont fini par conquérir les sommets du... Read more

Black and Female

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

Narrated by: Chipo Chung

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The first wound for all of us who are classified as "black" is empire.



In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender.... Read more

Nature on the Doorstep

By: Angela E. Douglas

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one’s own backyard over the course of a year. Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art of “strategic neglect"―sometimes taking a hand to manage wildlife, more... Read more