Essays audiobooks

The New Negro

By: Alain Locke

Narrated by: York Whitaker, Robin Eller, Charon Normand-Widm...

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the... Read more

Her Daily Bread

By: Kate Wood

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate’s heart for food and people warm every page… truly, a comforting read for anyone with an appetite for loving others well.”– Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author of Dream Big and Live in GraceFrom the writer and photographer behind the award-winning Wood and Spoon blog comes a 365-day devotional, featuring daily reflections and 52... Read more

Ansichten der Natur

By: Alexander von Humboldt

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander von Humboldt zählt zu den bedeutendsten Naturforschern der neueren Geschichte. Seine Forschungsreisen führten Humboldt nach Lateinamerika, in die USA sowie nach Zentralasien. Die Resultate seiner wissenschaftlichen Studien führten zu Fortschritten in den unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen. Wissenschaftliche... Read more

Viaje a la Alcarria seguido de Nuevo viaje a La Alcarria

By: Camilo José Cela

Narrated by: Nacho Béjar

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

El texto pionero de Cela sobre la España rural reunido con su continuación. Cela sintió siempre especial predilección por Viaje a la Alcarria (1948), que consideraba su libro «más sencillo, más inmediato y directo», y que constituye un modelo insuperable de prosa castellana. Con él renovó el género de la literatura de viajes, ejerciendo una... Read more

Hablemos de langostas

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

David Foster Wallace nos sorprende con un delirante y divertido libro de artículos. «Su voz brota de cada página, reforzando la corriente de pensamiento que defiende que es una especie de genio para cuyo arte todavía no se ha inventado una palabra». The Sunday Telegraph ¿Sienten miedo las langostas antes de ser devoradas? ¿Tenía Franz Kafka un... Read more

Mundo enfermo

By: Diego Enrique Osorno

Narrated by: Jorge Badillo

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

«Bienvenidos a un Mundo Enfermo, una historia de terror que no lo parecerá.» Pere Ortín En este libro, una especie de autobiografía en clave viajera, Diego Enrique Osorno prueba su compromiso radical con la crónica y presenta una serie de testimonios y experiencias que conforman en conjunto una reflexión crítica y plural del siglo xxi. Así es... Read more

Crítica al poder presidencial

By: Enrique Krauze

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

«Krauze se ha distinguido por sus intervenciones a favor de la democracia y el debate para mejorar la vida pública de México. Ha sido un estadista ciudadano, con ánimo valiente frente al poder y la incomprensión.» Gabriel Zaid Para Enrique Krauze, la crítica al poder es un compromiso de larga data que se conecta con la aspiración de que logremos... Read more

Even Brook Trout Get the Blues

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"Once an angler has become serious about the sport (and 'serious' is the word that's used), he'll never again have enough tackle or enough time to use it. And his nonangling friends and family may never... Read more

Mothers, Fathers, and Others

By: Siri Hustvedt

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far... Read more

I Knew This Place - Abridged

By: John MacKenna

Narrated by: John MacKenna

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'I Knew This Place' by John MacKenna is a collection of twenty-eight of his radio essays from RTE's radio programme 'Sunday Miscellany.'

John MacKenna is the author of twenty-seven books both fiction and non-fiction. A skilled actor and narrator, he won a Jacob's Radio Award for his documentary about Leonard Cohen. The radio essays in this... Read more

Resignation Trilogy

By: J. Clark Allison

Narrated by: J. Clark Allison

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Three entertaining true stories reported by your intrepid food server from the front lines of the Great Resignation of 2021. Got a restaurant or other service business? Find out what not to do if you want to keep your current and future employees from leaving for greener pastures. It's not rocket science but has got a lot of you completely... Read more

Dāna: The Practice of Giving

By: Bhikkhu Bodhi

Narrated by: Judy Swift

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the teaching of the Buddha, the practice of giving claims a place of special eminence, one that singles it out as being in a sense the foundation and seed of spiritual development. This publication was compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi to explore this cardinal Buddhist virtue in greater depth by featuring essays in which four modern writers... Read more

하노버에서 온 음악편지: 피아니스트 손열음의 클래식 이야기

By: 손열음

Narrated by: 정유정

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

손열음의 이번 책은 타 클래식 입문서와는 다른 세 가지의 차별점이 있다. 첫째, 클래식 매니아뿐만 아니라 음악을 사랑하는 사람이라면 누구나 읽을 수 있는 쉬우면서도 밀도 높은 글이라는 점. 둘째, 청중의 눈을 포함해서 연주자의 눈으로 음악을 바라보는 방법에 대해 소개하고 있다는 점. 그리고 마지막으로 대중들이 평소 궁금해했던 비밀스러운 영역인 '연주자의 삶'을 진솔하고 담백하게 고백하고 있다는 점이다. 목차 축하의 글 들어가는 글_나의 글을 읽고, 가슴 뜀을 느낄 단 한 분을 위해 1장 피아노와 음악 가장 음악적이고 인간적인 악기, 피아노/절대음감 vs. 상대음감/우리를 움직이게 만드는 것, 리듬/오늘 연주는... Read more

El futuro de nuestra mente

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Julio Caycedo

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva teoría sobre la conciencia y el futuro de los estudios de nuestra mente. Por primera vez en la historia, gracias a escáneres de alta tecnología diseñados por físicos, se han desvelado secretos del cerebro, y lo que un día fuera territorio de la ciencia ficción, se ha convertido en una asombrosa realidad. Grabación de recuerdos,... Read more

David Attenborough's Life Stories

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected together for the very first time, this is the complete Series 1 and 2 of Life Stories, written and presented by Sir David Attenborough.

One of the nation's most popular presenters, Sir David examines 40 marvels of the natural world from his extraordinary and pioneering experiences.

What was Sir David's first pet? Which animal would he... Read more

Dakshin Africano Satyagrah Itihas

By: Mahatma Gandhi

Narrated by: Rajul Diwan

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

History of Satyagrah in South Africa by Mohandas K. Gandhi. Read more

Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

By: Jesse McCarthy

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Even as our world has suffered through successive upheavals, Jesse McCarthy contends, "something was happening in the world of culture: a surging and unprecedented visibility at every level of black art making." Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? reckons with this resurgence, arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an... Read more

The Communist Manifesto and The Art of War Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

By: Friedrich Engels & Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Matt Montanez & Marcus Mulenga

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto and The Art of War Bundle, 2 in 1 BundleThe Communist Manifesto and The Art of War are two timeless classics that would offer you immense knowledge. In fact, these two are often required reading in various courses. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental... 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

The National Road

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).



What does it mean when a nation accustomed to moving begins to settle down, when political discord threatens unity, and... Read more

West Lake Old Dreams

By: Zhang Dai & Li Rongbao

Narrated by: Li Rongbao

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

West Lake, later Ming dynasty, a handsome man from rich official familly, yes, official already for 3 or 4 generations, lived a happy life, he drinks water, just like others, he tastes water, he knows water difference, he can identify water from Mian river or Zi river, just like the chef, Exchange Teeth. He tastes local spring water in temple,... Read more

Murakami T

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.

Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized... Read more

Matino Manas

By: Dr Nimitt Oza

Narrated by: Shreyamun Mehta

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Part-1 of the book contains real-life stories of patients and their relatives. Part-2 contains proses and essays on love, life, and relationships Read more

Perros e hijos de perra

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Javier Portugués (Portu)

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Las mejores historias de perros y hombres. «He tenido cinco perros. No hay compañía más silenciosa y grata. No hay lealtad tan conmovedora como la de sus ojos atentos, sus lengüetazos y su trufa próxima y húmeda. Nada tan asombroso como la extrema perspicacia de un perro inteligente. No existe mejor alivio para la melancolía y la soledad que su... Read more