Essays audiobooks

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

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

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

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

PornoXplotación

By: Mabel Lozano & Pablo J. Conellie

Narrated by: Gerard Flores & Inma Ortiz

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

PornoXplotación es una bofetada de realidad para quienes creen que la pornografía es ajena a sus vidas. Es, también, una llamada de atención destinada a informarnos y sensibilizarnos sobre el porno, un fenómeno que traspasa las fronteras digitales y que puede desencadenar efectos devastadores al ser ritualizado por menores y adultos en las... 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

Black Joy

By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

Narrated by: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional

With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today, this is “a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and out loud” (Kerry Washington).

When... Read more

Thought Through the Centuries

By: Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson & Napoleon...

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Phil Paonessa & Jim Seybert

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Napoleon Hill are some of the most notable names in nonfiction classics. While these authors each come from very different time periods, their thoughts have been chronicled in the books that they wrote, and their advice has been followed by millions of individuals for centuries. Explore their views on... Read more

Las rosas del sur

By: Julio Llamazares

Narrated by: Fernando Soto

Length: 23 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Diez años después de la publicación de su aclamada Las rosas de piedra, Julio Llamazares concluye su recorrido por España y su historia a través de las catedrales. «Llamazares deja constancia de lo que le ocurre a un viajero sin otra intención que disfrutar de su periplo. Las rosas del sur posee una fresca andadura narrativa.»
Santos Sanz... Read more

Dharma Artha Kama Moksha

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a... Read more

Cuaderno de faros

By: Jazmina Barrera

Narrated by: Luciana Falcón

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Los ensayos de Cuaderno de faros constituyen una colección alimentada pacientemente con apuntes de viajes, crónicas personales, recuerdos de lecturas y referencias históricas. En su afán coleccionista, «una pasión fervorosa pero domesticada», la autora visita algunos faros reales, como el de Yaquina Head, el de Goury o el de Tapia de Casariego,... Read more

'The Man in Black' by Oliver Goldsmith

By: M. Venkataraman

Narrated by: M. Venkataraman

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith was a famous English writer. Among his writings is a prose collection of essays titled “The Citizen of the World”. The “The Man in Black” is a piece of writing from this collection of essays. In this essay, Goldsmith makes a mockery of the then contemporary society. He attacks the social and political situation that dominated... Read more

Another Lousy Day in Paradise

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.



"Good fishing and good writing use the same skills," writes John Gierach, "whether you're after a trout or a story, you won’t get that far with brute force. You’re better off to watch, wait, and remain calm... Read more

The Mind of Plants

By: John C. Ryan, Patrícia Vieira & Monica Gagliano

Narrated by: Senn Annis & Michael Manuel

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.
From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with  humanity and with the world at large has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual teachers and seekers.... Read more

Hands

By: Lauren Brown

Narrated by: Lauren Brown

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Raw, intense and absorbing.’ Matt Haig ‘As tender and funny as it is painful.’ TLS ‘I didn’t give my hands much thought before they turned against me. … They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.’ ... Read more

Against the Tide

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Against the Tide by Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley, read by Kris Dyer.

'His moral courage shines through from the start.' – Sunday Telegraph

The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume.

The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative... Read more

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

By: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevie...

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.“One of the greatest... Read more

Maiden Voyage

By: Tania Aebi

Narrated by: Tania Aebi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.

Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her... Read more