Essays audiobooks

Where My Feet Fall

By: Duncan Minshull

Narrated by: Duncan Minshull

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this beautiful... Read more

101가지 흑역사로 읽는 세계사 : 고대~근대 편

By: 테리사 D. 패터슨, 윌리엄 터도슬라비치, 폴 A. 톰센, 에릭 플린트, 마이크 레즈...

Narrated by: 김인형

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"인간은 기껏해야 털 없는 원숭이에 불과하다!" 굴욕의 역사를 유머스러운 필치로 집대성한 흑역사의 바이블! 젊은 히틀러가 그림을 팔 수 있었다면 오늘날의 세계가 바뀌었을까? 만약 타이타닉 호에 쌍안경 열쇠가 있었더라면? 나폴레옹을 퇴위시켜버린 미셸 네의 착각은? 레닌이 오래 살았더라면 스탈린을 막을 수 있었을까? 200억 명의 신앙을 바꾼 헨리 8세의 이혼 이야기는? 콜럼버스가 1마일을 헷갈린 실수는 어떤 결과를 가져왔을까? 후계자를 남기지 않은 알렉산드로스대왕의 선택은 어떻게 역사를 바꿨을까? 마라톤전투를 촉발한 사소한 오해는 무엇이었을까? 굴욕의 역사를 유머스러운 필치로 집대성한 흑역사의 바이블. Read more

Reflections

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and... Read more

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: John Van Stan

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his sense of purpose. The genius of such... Read more

La ciencia de la pancita chelera

By: Leonora Milán Fe & Alejandra Ortiz Medrano

Narrated by: Diana Huicochea

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Todo lo que siempre quisiste saber sobre tu cuerpo, pero te daba ñáñaras preguntar. ¿Y si te dijéramos que los adorables bebés, tan inocentes en apariencia, son expertos manipuladores desde el vientre? ¿O que en tu cuerpo hay más bacterias y virus que células propias, y que estás mejor así? ¿Te gustaría asomarte al interior de una lágrima y... Read more

Buenos Aires

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Matías Néspolo

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos... Read more

La Habana

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Matías Néspolo

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos... Read more

Caracas

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Matías Néspolo

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos... Read more

México

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Matías Néspolo

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos... Read more

Bogotá

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Matías Néspolo

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos... Read more

Letter to a Stranger

By: Colleen Kinder

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers, Kimberly Woods, Charley Flyt...

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.” 
—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

Sixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?

When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to... Read more

Deer Hunting with Jesus

By: Joe Bageant

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks."

Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown... Read more

La economía de la extorsión

By: Luis De la Calle

Narrated by: Alex Magaña

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

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Días de viaje. Relatos en primera persona

By: Aniko Villalba

Narrated by: Paola Cohen

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Relatos de una viajera por América Latina, Asia, Europa y África. El 28 de enero de 2008, con veintidós años, Aniko se tomó un bus de Buenos Aires a Bolivia y dio por iniciada su vida de viajera. Desde ese día, recorrió más de treinta países en cuatro continentes, con mochila y sola, trabajando de escritora y fotógrafa independiente en el... Read more

Women Talk Money

By: Rebecca Walker

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Soneela Nankani, Tanis Pare...

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.

Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they talk about money; it unflinchingly recounts the power of money to impact health, define... Read more

Dress Code

By: Véronique Hyland

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry—its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it matters—from Elle Magazine’s fashion features director.Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how we dress and how we... Read more

Who Do I Think I Am?

By: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Narrated by: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This hilarious and thoughtful memoir from comedy legend Anjelah Johnson explores questions of identity, belonging, and her two dreams as a kid: to be an actress and to be a chola.You may know Anjelah Johnson for her viral sketch "Nail Salon" (over 100 million views globally) or her beloved ghetto-fabulous MadTV character Bon Qui Qui, but it's... Read more

Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: John Van Stan

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting, since traces of Nietzsche's later tenets—like Slave and Master morality, the Superman—can be found... Read more

Not Just Cricket

By: Pradeep Magazine

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha'A fascinating and insightful read.' - Vir Sanghvi'Delightful... A wonderful read.' - Pritish Nandy
Eminent journalist Pradeep Magazine's memoir is a story of lived, real experiences, of joy, sorrow, fear, loss and hope, and about how an uprooted identity shapes... Read more

Susann Pásztor über Genesis oder Warum das Lamm am Broadway liegen blieb - KiWi Musikbibliothek, Band 13 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Susann Pásztor

Narrated by: Susann Pásztor

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"So fremdartig und verzaubert klang diese Musik und ging mittenrein in mein verzweifeltes Hasenherz" In der Mitte der 1970er-Jahre sucht und findet eine Jugendliche Halt in der Musik einer der erfolgreichsten britischen Prog-Rock-Bands: Genesis. Es ist die Peter-Gabriel-Ära, der Susann Pásztor kenntnisreich und voller Humor ein leuchtendes... Read more

My Life in China and America

By: Yung Wing

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic and integral memoir recounts the events in the life of the first Chinese student to graduate from a major American university, Yale College. An avid advocate for education, Yung Wing convinced the Qing Dynasty government to create a program that would send Chinese students to American schools in order to study science and... Read more

Rebel

By: Rahaf Mohammed

Narrated by: Anonymous

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia—but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport.... Read more

Girls Can Kiss Now

By: Jill Gutowitz

Narrated by: Jill Gutowitz

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable…every page twinkles with brilliance.” —Refinery29

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a hilarious, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices... Read more

Dessert Can Save the World

By: Christina Tosi

Narrated by: Christina Tosi

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The James Beard Award–winning founder of Milk Bar and host of Bake Squad shares her personal stories and wisdom for igniting passion, following your joy, and creating a satisfying life.
 
Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big and small... Read more