Essays audiobooks

Chew Tentacle Thoroughly and Other Itchy Feet Travel Tales

By: Sam Letchworth

Narrated by: Sam Letchworth

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain—embracing... Read more

You Like a Pho? and Other Itchy Feet Travel Tales

By: Sam Letchworth

Narrated by: Sam Letchworth

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain—embracing... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Rinker Buck

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor

The eagerly awaited return of master... Read more

No Standing on Toilet and Other Itchy Feet Travel Tales

By: Sam Letchworth

Narrated by: Sam Letchworth

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered where horse milk vodka comes from? Or how to fight off a mob of Malaysian monkeys? Is it bad luck to wash cow poop off of your shoe? Travel vicariously with Sam across the Orient to find the funny but true answers.Sam savors every local culture he encounters much like Conan O’Brian and the late Anthony Bourdain — embracing... Read more

حواديت بوابة السعادة

By: محمد حمودة

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

كتاب أدب رحلات يبحر بنا في عدة دول، تركيا، لبنان، الصين وغيرهم. يكشف عن مواقف إنسانية بين الكاتب وجنسيات مختلفة، ويقدم نصائح للسفر ومحبيه. "حواديت بوابة السعادة" يعد ثالث أعمال الكاتب في أدب الرحلات بعد كتابيه سفر نامة وتذكرتين سفر. استمع الآن. Read more

Universo

By: Gerardo Herrera Corral

Narrated by: Gonzalo Benítez

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

La ciencia es la nave y el astrolabio que nos permiten realizar este viaje al origen y descubrir la sutil sinfonía de azares que culmina en el contacto de una neurona con otra. La historia de todas las cosas y de todos nosotros es la historia más grande jamás contada. Este libro es la historia general de todas las cosas: las estrellas, la... Read more

Leer poesía

By: Gabriel Zaid

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

En este volumen, integrado por ensayos breves, concentrados y aleccionadores, Gabriel Zaid enfoca su atención siempre viva, su inteligencia siempre despierta, en poetas individuales, movimientos poéticos y aspectos de la poesía y su peculiar estética. Leer por gusto es el método que propone este libro que habla de poesía como los amigos que... Read more

Royal Books and Holy Bones

By: Eamon Duffy

Narrated by: Eamon Duffy

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Royal Books and Holy Bones written and read by Eamon Duffy.

In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation.

In the process he opens windows on the vibrant and... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 2,500 years ago, a Chinese commander, Master Sun – or Sun-tzu – collected together his precepts on generalship to form the kernel of one of the most famous military treatises of all time. Our understanding of strategic warfare that comes out of his writings has yet to be surpassed. Eschewing conventional courage and military might as... Read more

Ser liberal

By: Federico Reyes Heroles

Narrated by: Javier Poza

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

«Si una persona niega la ciencia y los relevos sucesivos de verdades relativas, estará imposibilitada para comprender la mecánica liberal.» Liberal y liberalismo son palabras que se usan con demasiada frecuencia y poca precisión en la prensa y en los debates políticos contemporáneos. En algunos casos se utilizan con un sentido positivo... Read more

Una historia de toma pan y moja

By: Juan Eslava Galán

Narrated by: Javier Quero

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Este audiolibro compendia la historia de España a través de sus cocinas y despensas, desde los caníbales y carroñeros de la cueva de Atapuerca hasta la increíble —y sin embargo cierta— invención de la tortilla de patatas sin patatas y sin huevos de nuestra más reciente posguerra. Entre esos dos hitos desfilan la salsa garum de los romanos, las... Read more

La madre del cordero

By: Juan Eslava Galán

Narrated by: Jorge de Salvador

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

«Hacemos turismo cultural, visitamos iglesias y catedrales, nos arrobamos ante la belleza de los frescos románicos, de los lienzos renacentistas, de los retablos barrocos, de las imágenes de bulto talladas en sillerías, canecillos y retablos, de las prodigiosas arquitecturas que conforman el edificio, pero no entendemos lo que... Read more

A Trip of One's Own

By: Kate Wills

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A travel story is the best story of them all …Travel journalist Kate Wills wasn’t expecting to be divorced after less than a year of marriage, or to be forced to restart a life that had seemed so stable for so long. Luckily, her job as a writer offered her the perfect opportunity to escape from it all. But this time, with no deadlines to hit or... Read more

Going It Alone

By: Tim Hauserman

Narrated by: Walter Brown

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Join author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the United States. Along the way, he confronts his conflicting desires to be alone in the wilderness, then facing profound loneliness and fear... Read more

Assata Taught Me

By: Donna Murch

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is... Read more

Good Grief

By: E.B. Bartels

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet,... Read more

A Parthenon on our roof

By: Peter Barber

Narrated by: Martyn Swain

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandra, a product of Greek Fire. Born into the cradle of civilization. Weaned on the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers, thrilled by the bravery of Spartans and thousands of years of cultural heritage.Peter, her future husband, a tea-drinking, digestive-dunking product of British society. Working to make a living with no real ambitions... Read more

The Coronation

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Charles Eisenstein

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned public speaker, bestselling author, social critic, and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward from our present moment through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making. Through a series of piercing essays, The Coronation takes listeners through the initiation of the Covid era?exploring topics... Read more

The Coronation

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Charles Eisenstein

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned public speaker, bestselling author, social critic, and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward from our present moment through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making. Through a series of piercing essays, The Coronation takes listeners through the initiation of the Covid era?exploring topics... Read more

내가 만난 소년에 대하여

By: 천종호

Narrated by: 김주호

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

호통판사 천종호의 '소년재판 이야기' 특별판 『내가 만난 소년에 대하여』는 '소년범의 대부' 천종호 판사가 그동안 펴낸 책에서 독자의 공감을 크게 받은 글을 추려 펴낸 특별판이다. 청소년부터 어른까지 쉽게 읽을 수 있도록 문장을 전부 다듬고 내용을 풍성하게 보완하였다. 소년법과 관련한 최근의 논쟁을 비롯해 법과 정의, 법치주의와 공동체에 대한 글도 새롭게 수록했다. 법정에서는 매서운 호통으로 소년들을 떨게 만들지만 재판이 끝나고 나면 열악한 소년들의 처지에 눈물 흘리고 아이들의 가슴 아픈 사연에 귀 기울여 온 천종호 판사. 그는 거듭 말한다. 비행의 거푸집을 벗기면 삶의 부조리와 폭력 앞에 아무런 보호막 없이... Read more

El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Luis García Márquez

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero se convirtió inmediatamente en un clásico y consagró a Oliver Sacks como «uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo» (The New York Times). En este libro, Oliver Sacks narra veinte historiales médicos de pacientes perdidos en el mundo extraño y aparentemente irremediable de las... Read more

How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

Narrated by: Elaine Castillo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.”

“A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book... Read more

No Shame

By: Laura Belbin

Narrated by: Laura Belbin

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shame, shame we know your name

Do we own it? Being a woman that is. Do we fuck! We live in fear of how we look, what we eat, how we age and what we do. Wow, it's 2022 and we're still churning out that same old shit.

I've been told as you get older you care less. Fucking great. I can't wait to be menopausal with... Read more

As Far As The Saffron Fields

By: Danesh Rana

Narrated by: Nimisha Sirohi

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2019, two militants were killed during a siege at a house in Nowgam, on the outskirts of Srinagar. One of them was known simply as 'Idrees Bhai'. The encounter was forgotten for the most part, until investigators came upon a mangled phone that had been destroyed by Idrees Bhai. When the Samsung smartphone began to reveal its secrets,... Read more