Essays audiobooks

Cómo leer en bicicleta

By: Gabriel Zaid

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Esta recopilación de artículos se ha convertido, con el paso del tiempo, en una referencia inevitable cuando se habla de la renovación del género ensayístico en Hispanoamérica. Este "es un libro alegre, juguetón, por momentos soberbiamente irresponsable, que tiene la capacidad, más bien infrecuente en la literatura de nuestros días, de excitar... Read more

Pensar México I

By: Maruan Soto Antaki

Narrated by: Bern Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

En el primer volumen de Pensar México intenté aproximarme a nuestra realidad desde el lenguaje, analizando el extravío de los significados a causa de un fenómeno enraizado en la mexicanidad: la relativización de cada concepto. Hoy encuentro una sociedad que abandonó la intención de entenderse; abdicamos de preguntarnos sobre nuestro futuro y... Read more

Cómo evitar la próxima pandemia

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Roberto Medina

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

La pandemia de la COVID-19 aún no ha terminado, pero mientras los gobiernos del mundo entero tratan de dejarla atrás, ya se plantean qué pasará a continuación. ¿Cómo podemos evitar que una próxima pandemia les arrebate la vida a millones de personas y hunda la economía global? ¿Podemos siquiera albergar la esperanza de alcanzar esta meta? Bill... Read more

Tell Me the Truth About Love

By: Susanna Abse

Narrated by: Susanna Abse

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships.

Candid and captivating, each chapter is inspired by a classic,... Read more

Serious Face

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Jon Mooallem

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

My Life: Growing Up Asian in America

By: CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainm...

Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino, Ramón de Ocampo, Deepti Gupta,...

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), for fans of Minor Feelings.

There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner:... Read more

Black Boy Smile

By: D. Watkins

Narrated by: D. Watkins

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of-age journey as a Black boy, from the societal roots of trauma to finding joy.

"If I had two wishes, it would be that D. Watkins spend an entire book writing through the terrifying wonder of Black boyness in America, and for every human to read and... Read more

Old Truths and New Clichés

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work, the book illuminates in new... Read more

This Might Be Too Personal

By: Alyssa Shelasky

Narrated by: Alyssa Shelasky

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A PureWow Best Beach Read of 2022

A frisky, feminine, funny, and profoundly genuine essay collection on relationships, sex, motherhood, and finding yourself, by the editor of New York magazine's "Sex Diaries."

Alyssa Shelasky has a lot to tell you.

In this hilarious and intimate essay collection, Alyssa navigates life as a wild-hearted woman and... Read more

Of Arcs and Circles

By: Marc Peter Keane

Narrated by: Marc Peter Keane

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world. From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives.  How the names of gardens reveal their essential... Read more

Uncertain Ground

By: Phil Klay

Narrated by: Josh Casaubon

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America.

When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with... Read more

Taming the Rascal Multitude

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved.This may seem mundane, but virtually every... Read more

Sex and the Single Woman

By: Eliza Smith & Haley Swanson

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Kristen Arnett, Morgan Parker, Evette Dionne, and Melissa Febos.Sixty years ago, Helen Gurley... Read more

Faux rebonds

By: James Hyndman

Narrated by: James Hyndman & Tristan Malavoy

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Dissertant au gré de ses humeurs sur un sport qui peut rendre fou, James Hyndman puise dans son expérience de tennisman autant que dans ses souvenirs doux-amers et son imaginaire débridé pour proposer un livre inattendu, à la fois introspectif et rempli d’humour, une sorte d’essai joyeusement tendancieux destiné aussi bien aux profanes qu’aux... Read more

El espacio de la imaginación

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas 

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Son compatibles la libertad estética y el compromiso político? McEwan reflexiona a partir de Orwell y Camus. En 1940 George Orwell publicó el ensayo «En el vientre de la ballena», en el que se pregunta cómo pueden conjugar los escritores la integridad estética y el compromiso político. ¿Son compatibles? ¿Cuál debe prevalecer por encima del... Read more

Ali's Well That Ends Well

By: Ali Wentworth

Narrated by: Ali Wentworth

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every... Read more

Reading the Water

By: Mark Hume

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters in this eloquent memoir…[Mark] Hume vividly conveys the sensory details of their adventures and the stunning surroundings…A heartfelt, beautifully written celebration of the wonders of nature and comfort of family.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Fishing was Mark Hume’s passion since he... Read more

Undelivered

By: Jeff Nussbaum

Narrated by: Adam Gifford, Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, Garrick...

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"There may be no more important listen regarding the fate of the nation's democracy than this historical record."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author and full cast, includes actual audio clips from historical and political figures, and has actors narrating the entire undelivered speeches throughout.

A fascinating insight into notable... Read more

Manifesto comunista - Abridged

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: José Paulo Netto

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No final de fevereiro de 1848, foi publicado em Londres um pequeno panfleto que acabaria por se tornar o documento político mais importante de todos os tempos: o Manifesto Comunista, de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels. Passado mais de um século e meio, a atualidade e o vigor deste texto continuam reconhecidos por intelectuais das mais diversas... Read more

The Last Days of Roger Federer

By: Geoff Dyer

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022

An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).

When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In... Read more

Managing Expectations

By: Minnie Driver

Narrated by: Minnie Driver

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her... 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

Prozac Monologues

By: Willa Goodfellow

Narrated by: Willa Goodfellow

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

She was going to stab her doctor, but she wrote a book instead.Years later, Willa Goodfellow revisits this account of her antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked a Costa Rican vacation and tells the rest of the story: the wrong medications, an overlooked diagnosis of Bipolar 2, and finally a path to recovery.Prozac Monologues: A Voice... Read more

The Food Diaries

By: Elizabeth Butel

Narrated by: Julie McGregor

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Eating when you're hungry ... how simple is that? Not so simple for Josie and the friends she met when she took herself off to One Step, the local Overeaters Anonymous Group. She heard about Rachel's extended family, who thought meeting meant eating. She met Christopher who could only stomach one coloured food at a time. There was Olga who used... Read more