Essays audiobooks

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

Votos, drogas y violencia

By: Guillermo Trejo & Sandra Ley

Narrated by: Alicia Valdez

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

¿POR QUÉ A MEDIDA QUE LA DEMOCRACIA SE HA CONSOLIDADO EN MÉXICO LA VIOLENCIA A GRAN ESCALA SE HA MULTIPLICADO?. Guillermo Trejo y Sandra Ley ofrecen en este libro una teoría novedosa y necesaria sobre la violencia criminal, que enfatiza la influencia crucial de la política. A partir de estudios de caso en profundidad y análisis estadísticosque... Read more

Unattached

By: Angelica Malin

Narrated by: Chloe Pierre, Felicity Morse, Francesca Specter...

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.



Have you ever worried about going on holiday alone?

Felt queasy at the thought of Valentine's Day without a date?

Thought to yourself, "I want what she has?"


This book is the tonic you need.


ANGELICA MALIN - MEGAN BARTON HANSON - ANNIE LORD - STEPHANIE YEBOAH - SHAPARAK KHORSANDI - POORNA BELL - CHARLIE CRAGGS - REBECCA... Read more

悦读人间情

By: 尤今

Narrated by: 小玖

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

尤今老师的作品，每篇都能让人细细咀嚼，回味无穷。当中蕴含了人生的酸甜苦辣，陪伴你我度过生命中的悲欢离合。无论是饱含人生哲理的袖珍小品，还是由美食提炼出来的文字佳肴，尤今老师的笔下所带出的都是一篇篇富有人情味的佳作。 身为一位教育工作者，尤今老师笔下的教学感悟绝对值得老师、家长和学生引为借鉴。身为一位母亲和女儿，尤今老师笔下的亲情故事绝对能唤起一家人的共鸣。身为一名旅游达人，尤今老师记录的旅游经历不只具有参考价值，更能指引出一条感悟之路。身为一名酷爱美食者，尤今老师竟也能将一道道美味佳肴化成人生哲理。 哪怕您早已读过其中某些篇章，但时过境迁，再执而重读，总能温故知新，得出另一番感悟。文学作品就是有这股神奇的力量，而尤今老师的作品，更将这股力量完全地发挥出来。经历了各种际遇、看遍了世态... Read more

Illuminations

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art... Read more

El fin del fin de la tierra

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Rafael de la Rica Hernández

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Provocadora, ingeniosa y emocionante, esta colección de ensayos es una excelente ocasión para profundizar en el ideario de un escritor sin duda colosal. Esta variada serie de artículos, publicados en los más prestigiosos medios norteamericanos, reúne dieciséis piezas que muestran la amplitud de miras de Franzen, en algún caso con claros tintes... Read more

Go Wild

By: Harriet Noble, Clare Balding, Robert Macfarlane...

Narrated by: Harriet Noble, Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin,...

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

22 BBC radio programmes celebrating the great outdoors, introduced by Harriet Noble

Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've selected some of BBC Radio 4's best nature... Read more

Garis Batas: Perjalanan di Negeri-Negeri Asia Tengah

By: Agustinus Wibowo

Narrated by: Fitra Hartono

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Negeri apa di seberang sungai sana? Penduduk desa Afghan setiap hari memandang ke "luar negeri" yang hanya selebar sungai jauhnya. Memandangi mobil-mobil melintas, tanpa pernah menikmati rasanya duduk dalam mobil. Mereka memandangi rumah-rumah cantik bak vila, sementara tinggal di dalam ruangan kumuh remang-remang yang terbuat dari batu dan... Read more

In Sensorium

By: Tanaïs

Narrated by: Tanaïs

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for NonfictionFragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned—Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate... Read more

La république des oiseaux

By: Robert Blondin

Narrated by: Robert Blondin

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Crédit photo : LE MUR DES RAPACES par René Derouin Les fabulistes, d’Ésope à Walt Disney, ont prêté aux animaux, aux oiseaux en particuliers, des comportements humains. Une critique moins incriminante de la bêtise reconnue chez leurs frères humains. Le mot bêtise incrimine aux bêtes nos conneries. Mais si les bêtes, les oiseaux par exemple,... Read more

Die Wütenden

By: Fabian Reicher & Anja Melzer

Narrated by: Robert Gregor Kühn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Warum radikalisieren sich Teenager in aufgeklärten und freien Gesellschaften wie Österreich, Deutschland und Frankreich? Anhand von fünf Biographien bieten Anja Melzer und Fabian Reicher authentische Einblicke in die perfide Propaganda von IS und Islamisten bei europäischen Jugendlichen und klären über die dschihadistische Jugendsubkultur auf.... Read more

Vacunas

By: Peter C. Gøtzsche

Narrated by: Juan Magraner

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gøtzsche pide desmedicalizar la sociedad, controlar la industria farmacéutica, hacer ensayos clínicos transparentes y centrarse en la seguridad de los medicamentos."—Nexus: New York Times"Una brújula para navegar por el desconcertante y contradictorio océano de información que existe sobre las vacunas."—La RazónA propósito de las vacunas, lo... Read more

Queda una voz

By: Anna Pagés

Narrated by: Anna Pagés

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

En este libro se exploran distintas dimensiones de la voz más allá del logos filosófico que tan bien conocemos como razonamiento, argumento o idea. A través de un coro de autores de la literatura, la filosofía y el psicoanálisis, la voz se desliza entre las letras y acoge otras tonalidades: Sócrates, Aristóteles, Barbara Cassin, Jacques Lacan,... Read more

细读世上人

By: 尤今

Narrated by: 小玖

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

尤今老师的作品，每篇都能让人细细咀嚼，回味无穷。当中蕴含了人生的酸甜苦辣，陪伴你我度过生命中的悲欢离合。无论是饱含人生哲理的袖珍小品，还是由美食提炼出来的文字佳肴，尤今老师的笔下所带出的都是一篇篇富有人情味的佳作。 身为一位教育工作者，尤今老师笔下的教学感悟绝对值得老师、家长和学生引为借鉴。身为一位母亲和女儿，尤今老师笔下的亲情故事绝对能唤起一家人的共鸣。身为一名旅游达人，尤今老师记录的旅游经历不只具有参考价值，更能指引出一条感悟之路。身为一名酷爱美食者，尤今老师竟也能将一道道美味佳肴化成人生哲理。 哪怕您早已读过其中某些篇章，但时过境迁，再执而重读，总能温故知新，得出另一番感悟。文学作品就是有这股神奇的力量，而尤今老师的作品，更将这股力量完全地发挥出来。经历了各种际遇、看... Read more

Orienting

By: Pallavi Aiyar

Narrated by: Pallavi Aiyar

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own? Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities? Why are Ganesha idols in Japanese temples hidden from public view? Globe-trotting journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Japan and takes an in-depth look at the island country including its... Read more

A Place to Read

By: Michael Cohen

Narrated by: Dan Cohen

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Cohen's subjects in A Place to Read can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune... Read more

Graceland, At Last

By: Margaret Renkl

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeWinner of the 2022 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A Country Living Best Book of Fall 2022A Garden & Gun Recommended Read for Fall 2021A Book... Read more

Paul McCartney Hautnah

By: Christian Simon

Narrated by: Thomas Höricht

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Fast zwei Jahrzehnte lang pflegte Christian Simon freundschaftlichen Kontakt zu Paul McCartney. Nun gibt der Moderator und Journalist erstmals Gelegenheit, die spannendsten Passagen aus den Exklusivinterviews nachzulesen, die er mit dem großen Musiker und seiner Frau Linda geführt hat. Sichtbar wird ein ganz privater Paul McCartney, sein Blick... Read more

Wieder da und doch nicht hier - Abridged

By: Uta-Caecilia Nabert

Narrated by: Tanja Lipinski

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach der Reise zurück in den Alltag: Wenn die Heimkehr die größte Herausforderung ist<br/><br/>Die meisten Reiseberichte enden dort, wo die Reise aufhört. Aber was kommt danach? Wie knüpft man nach den aufregenden Erlebnissen wieder an das Leben »davor« an? Wie macht man weiter, wenn sich das Fernweh nicht abschalten... Read more

Britons Through Negro Spectacles

By: ABC Merriman-Labor

Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo & Mohammed Mansary

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in the British Empire arm in arm with Merriman-Labor, you are sure to see Britons in merriment and at labour, by night and... Read more

Sequins for a Ragged Hem

By: Amryl Johnson

Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo & Martina Laird

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s

'Memories demanded that I complete this book. If what I experienced was, in fact, a haunting, I believe I have now laid these ghosts to rest in a style which I hope will satisfy even the most... Read more

Tell Everyone On This Train I Love Them

By: Maeve Higgins

Narrated by: Maeve Higgins

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Deeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America.
 
As an eternally curious outsider, Maeve Higgins can see that the United States is still an experiment. Some parts work well and others really don’t,... Read more

The Black Agenda

By: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

Narrated by: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Chanté McCormick, Don...

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book of its kind, a collection bringing together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America.

From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, the year 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of... Read more

A Rude Life: The Memoir

By: Vir Sanghvi

Narrated by: Ashish Bhandari

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Vir Sanghvi's has been an interesting life - one that took him to Oxford, movie and political journalism, television and magazines - and he depicts it with the silky polish his readers expect of him. In A Rude Life, he turns his dispassionate observer's gaze on himself, and in taut prose tells us about all that he's experienced, and nothing more... Read more