Essays audiobooks

La madre de todas las preguntas - Abridged

By: Rebecca Solnit & Lucía Barahona (Translator)

Narrated by: Marta Martín Jorcano

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un nuevo libro de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust, que ilumina, entre otras cosas, la manera en que se entretejen la historia del silencio y la historia de las mujeres. "Hay una nueva revolución feminista en marcha, y Rebecca Solnit es una de sus voces más poderosas y cautivadoras."—Barbara Ehrenreich "No esperen un libro... Read more

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.

Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other’s nerves, have different... Read more

Banvard's Folly, Revised Edition

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Tim Getman

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of... Read more

Confesiones de un incrédulo y otros ensayos escogidos

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Se ofrece aquí una selección de artículos y ensayos de H. P. Lovecraft sobre filosofía, ciencia, política y literatura. Aparecidos en periódicos, revistas amateury cartas, e inéditos en nuestro idioma, nos presentan una faceta totalmente desconocida —y acaso silenciada— de este influyente genio del imaginario literario del terror y la fantasía.... Read more

Body Language

By: Nicole Chung & Matt Ortile

Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Catherine Ho, Adi Cabral & Angela...

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways.


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Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich gehöre zu den Lesern Schopenhauers", schrieb Friedrich Nietzsche, "welche, nachdem sie die erste Seite von ihm gelesen haben, mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass sie alle Seiten lesen und auf jedes Wort hören werden, das er überhaupt gesagt hat". Und so wie es Nietzsche mit der Lektüre von Schopenhauer ging, so ging - und geht es bis heute -... Read more

Haywire

By: Craig Brown & Kieran Hodgson

Narrated by: Craig Brown & Jan Ravens

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times ‘The most screamingly funny living writer’ Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time. ... Read more

Camus at Combat

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom’s barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men’s blood.

Albert Camus (1913–1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from... Read more

Portable Magic

By: Emma Smith

Narrated by: Emma Smith

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.

Stephen King once said that books are... Read more

Victory Is Assured

By: Stanley Crouch

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.



With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist,... Read more

El príncipe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clásico entre los clásicos.
El príncipe es un innovador, controvertido y conciso manual político para gobernantes en el que Nicolás Maquiavelo desgrana los mecanismos del poder y la naturaleza humana. Fue escrito en 1513 mientras se encontraba confinado en San Casciano por la acusación de haber conspirado en contra de los Médici.
A pesar de las... Read more

Carbolics

By: James May

Narrated by: James May

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Top Gear and Grand Tour legend James May's quirky, entertaining take on cars, trucks and even the bicycle.

Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)?

In Carbolics the UK's favourite petrol head... Read more

El espíritu universal como salmón

By: Moritz Rudolph

Narrated by: Claudia Berdeja

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

El fin de la historia no puede haber llegado con el neoliberalismo, como anunció Fukuyama. El espíritu universal, según Hegel, sigue un proceso dialéctico entre dos polos opuestos cuya tensión culmina en su síntesis. Así como el salmón, que retorna a su lugar de nacimiento para morir y desovar, el espíritu universal, tras su paso por Europa y... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Tracey Leigh, Jennifer Aquino, Ulka Simone Moha...

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the... Read more

Ortodoxia

By: G.K Chesterton

Narrated by: Vicente Quintana

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

«Si solo leemos una obra de Chesterton —debería avergonzarnos si así fuera— ha de ser Ortodoxia. Seguramente, nadie ha defendido la fe cristiana con argumentos tan sorprendentes y ejemplos tan deslumbrantes, como Chesterton lo hizo en Ortodoxia. Una obra maestra de retórica que (...) realmente constituye uno de los libros mejor escritos del... Read more

The Best American Food Writing 2022

By: Sohla El-Waylly & Silvia Killingsworth

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah, Pun Bandhu, Ashley Bryant, Dani ...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of... Read more

The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor

Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyo...

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... Read more

Locos lindos

By: Daniel Samper Pizano

Narrated by: Sergio Lonardi

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es la lista de locos lindos adorables que hicieron historia en actividades propias de su oficio Alrededor de ellos revolotean decenas de personajes y escenarios: el rey Luis XIV, Humboldt, el tenebroso Doctor Francia, Lord Byron, Verdi, Rufino José Cuervo, Búfalo Bill, el cacique Toro Sentado, Pancho Villa, Ernest Hemingway, figuras del... Read more

The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan

Narrated by: Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rai...

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Read more

I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me

By: Jason Gay

Narrated by: Jason Gay

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated—from the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, and play to all other aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living. Like many of us,... Read more

What Writers Read

By: Pandora Sykes

Narrated by: Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Dian...

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes, read by Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Diana Evans, Paris Lees, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Paul Mendez, Sara Collins, Nina Stibbe, Tessa Hadley, Damon Galgut, Simon Darwen and Aysha Kala.

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora... Read more

Pickleball is Life

By: Erin McHugh

Narrated by: Jer Adrianne Lelliott

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate keepsake for every pickleball fan—from a dink shot to the kitchen, everything a pickleballer needs to know in this guide to the world’s greatest recreational sport, packed with lots of joy, good humor, and even a little bit of wisdom.
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America. Easy to learn, but impossible to master, it’s no... Read more

Our Red Book

By: author

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Christian Barillas, Inés del C...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the editor of the New York Times bestselling anthology My Little Red Book.

After hearing a harrowing coming-of-age story from her great aunt, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff started gathering stories about menstruation in her family that had never... Read more

Serendipity

By: Oscar Farinetti & Barbara McGilvray

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world’s most well-known gastronomic delights.Did you know that your morning coffee could be thanks to a herd of energetic goats? Or that a forgotten ingredient is behind the invention of the beloved brownie? Who got the fright of their... Read more