Essays audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Los enemigos

By: Kiko Amat

Narrated by: Kiko Amat

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Después de su Revancha, Kiko Amat reflexiona sobre los cimientos de la enemistad: el odio de clase, la desvalidez infantil... y la omnipresencia de la violencia. Este libro es un manual para comprender la enemistad, la fijación con lo antipódico, las acciones por despecho y el odio (con ocasional elevación) que suele acompañarlas. También es una... 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

How to Cuss in Western

By: Michael P. Branch

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the HillEdward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed... Read more

Doctors and Distillers

By: Camper English

Narrated by: Joanna Carpenter

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade.” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants

“A fascinating book that makes a brilliant historical case for what I’ve been saying all along: alcohol is good for you…okay maybe it’s not... Read more

Rookie Mistakes

By: Kelly Bandas

Narrated by: Kelly Bandas

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.In her highly anticipated nonfiction debut, comedian Kelly Bandas uses her trademark humor to recount stories of growing up and becoming a semifunctional adult in a dysfunctional world.Raised in a devoutly Catholic home, Kelly Bandas spent her entire childhood trying hard not to tick off “the man” or the Lord. And for the most... Read more

Life Lessons from the Heart of Horses

By: Kathy Pike

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring true stories of how horses teach humans and heal their hearts.



Horses are sensitive creatures with hearts ten times larger than humans and much more to share with us than meets the eye. Life Lessons from the Heart of Horses offers poignant short stories about the trials and tribulations of befriending horses. Equine expert Kathy Pike... Read more

Rebel With A Clause

By: Ellen Jovin

Narrated by: Ellen Jovin

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor.... Read more

Six Walks

By: Ben Shattuck

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to... Read more

Life of the Mind Interrupted

By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right.“I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’”In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment... Read more

Patna Oka Prema Katha

By: Abdulla Khan

Narrated by: Santosh Ralapalli

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"శప్తభూమి రాయలసీమ చరిత్ర నేపథ్యంగా రాసిన నవల. రాయల కాల తదనంతరం సుమారు 18వ శతాబ్దం నాటి అనంతపుర సంస్థాన అధికార రాజకీయాలు. అప్పటి జీవితము చిత్రించిన చారిత్రాత్మక నవల. హండే రాజుల కాలంనాటి సంఘటనలు, కక్షలు, కార్పణ్యాల మధ్య నలిగిన ప్రజల జీవితాల, పాలెగాళ్ల దౌర్జన్యాల సమాహారం శప్తభూమి. ఈ నవలలోని చారిత్రక పాత్రలను సమీక్షించుకుంటున్నప్పుడు ఎక్కువమంది... Read more

Ciencia, anticiencia y sus alrededores

By: Fedro Carlos Guillén

Narrated by: Pedro De Tavira Egurrola

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

El conocimiento científico no es un tesoro reservado a personas con inteligencias superiores, sino algo a lo que cualquiera con sentido común puede acceder. Para demostrarlo, aquí se reunen algunas de las inquietudes de Fedro Carlos Guillén, científico y escritor, cuya intención es compartir su curiosidad con los lectores de una manera fresca y... Read more