Essays audiobooks

꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채

By: 박완서

Narrated by: 김두리

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

출간 25주년을 기념하여 새롭게 펴낸 애장본 증보판. 초판본(1977년) 책갈피의 주인공이었던 외아들 원태를 잃은 슬픔을 토로한 「내가 걸어온 길」등 90년대 전반부까지 쓴 글들을 추가하여 총 45편의 글을 엮었다. 표제작 「꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채」는 8쪽 분량의 글이지만 초판본 출간 당시 '꼴찌'에 대한 사회적 인식의 전환을 가져오는 계기가 되었던 글이며, 이번 증보판에 추가된 「내가 잃은 동산」에서는 그의 자전적 소설 『그 많던 싱아는 누가 다 먹었을까』가 쓰여지게 된 사연이 소개되기도 한다. 이 산문집의 각 글 발표연도를 참고하면서 저자가 20여 년 이상 체험하고 느낀 삶의 풍경과 세태를 음미하다보면 이... Read more

Phosphorescence

By: Julia Baird

Narrated by: Julia Baird

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments.

“What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has been the notion that we have the ability to find, nurture, and carry our... Read more

After Cooling

By: Eric Dean Wilson

Narrated by: Eric Dean Wilson

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.

In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning... Read more

The Hero's Way

By: Tim Parks

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge French army.



Against all odds, Garibaldi was... Read more

Environmental Reflections

By: Dr. Michael Puthenthara

Narrated by: Dr. Michael Puthenthara

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Issues mankind faces today are global warming, climate change, widespread pollution of natural elements, environmental degradation and resource depletion.Environment protection does not suffer from the dearth of scientific data or the absence of laws and regulations on the subject. What is absent is a consistent and determined mindset of the... Read more

التجربة الماليزية - مهاتير محمد والصحوة الاقتصادية

By: محمد صادق إسماعيل

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

حينما تحول الحياة لحظات البراءة واللهو إلى مأساة مرتقبة! بنيامين طفل في العاشرة من عمره، يحكي قصته وأخوته الثلاثة في قرية نيجيرية بأواخر التسعينات من القرن العشرين. خرج الأربعة ذات يوم لممارسة الصيد خلسة في نهر محذور، ولم يكن في خيالهم ما سيقابلهم! عراف عجوز يدعى أبولو تنبأ بمصيرهم الدموي الذي سيلاحقهم طوال حياتهم أينما حلوا، لتبدأ أولى... Read more

دروس من التاريخ

By: إريل ديورانت & ويل ديورانت

Narrated by: داود عفيشات

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"تدفن حضارات تحت الرمال فقط لعدم هطول أمطار كافية كما حدث في وسط آسيا، أو تنغمر وسط الغابات إذا هطلت أمطار غزيرة كما حدث في وسط أمريكا. ستنتكس منطقتنا المزدهرة وتعود إلى حالة من البدائية والكسل إذا ارتفعت درجة الحرارة عشرين درجة. في مناخ شبه استوائي، يمكن لأمة من نصف مليون نسمة أن تتكاثر كالنمل، لكن جوها الدافع للكسل قد يجعلها عرضة للاحتلال... Read more

My Garden World

By: Monty Don

Narrated by: Monty Don

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and journals ever since I could write and I have drawn upon these as well as the... Read more

CenterStage

By: Michael Kay

Narrated by: Michael Kay, Jerry Jones, Mike Tyson, Bill Russ...

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the longtime host of the New York Yankees’ television broadcasts, ESPN Radio’s The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network’s Emmy Award–winning CenterStage comes an “entertaining…greatest-hits collection” (Kirkus Reviews) of his most memorable interviews with the most intriguing personalities in sports and entertainment—from Jay-Z to Mike Tyson... Read more

Moms Don’t Have Time To

By: Zibby Owens

Narrated by: Zibby Owens

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give... Read more

The Cruelty Is the Point

By: Adam Serwer

Narrated by: Adam Serwer

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times).

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No... Read more

Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old

By: Steven Petrow

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon after his fiftieth birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of "things I won't do when I get old"—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then seventy-something-year-old parents were doing wrong. That list became the basis of this rousing collection of do's and don'ts, wills and won'ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest,... Read more

The Science of The Big Bang Theory

By: Mark Brake

Narrated by: Brian Holden

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

With well over two hundred episodes and a dozen seasons, The Big Bang Theory is one of America's favorite television series, bringing a new class of character to mainstream television: the science nerd.



In spite of its evident popularity and influence in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, there are relatively few books that... Read more

Thanks for Waiting

By: Doree Shafrir

Narrated by: Doree Shafrir

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected

“Thanks for Waiting is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form.”—Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies

Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her... Read more

Pantherzeit - Vom Innenmaß der Dinge (Ungekürzt)

By: Marica Bodrožić

Narrated by: Marit Beyer

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Als im Frühling 2020 die Welt zum Stillstand kam und auch die Erde durchzuatmen schien, las Marica Bodrožić zwei Monate lang auf ihrem Balkon jeden Abend Rilkes Gedicht "Der Panther". Wilder als alles Vergängliche, schreibt sie, der eigenen Eingesperrtheit zum Trotz, sei der Wunsch des Menschen in Freiheit zu leben. Was aber können wir tun,... Read more

白話陶庵夢忆

By: Zhang Dai & Li Rongbao

Narrated by: Li Rongbao

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

這是一個熱愛生活、享受生活的人，明末張岱生活于浙江山陰，上面四代當過官，非常富有，家裡有聲伎班4個還是5個，精通聲樂，組織過紹興的琴社，觀賞過當世這樣那樣的戲曲鼓吹，與女藝人有密切交往，賞雪，湖心亭賞雪，龍山賞雪，月夜賞雪，賞瓜洲；方物，吃好東西，傳食四方，吃螃蟹，吃柿子，怎樣收穫保存桔子，破塘筍；賞花，建蘭，一尺雪，菊花；園子廳閣；造船，樓船，船樓；鬥茶，自創茶葉品牌，喝好水，找好泉水... ... 你也可以這樣享受生活。 the Narrator is located at Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, send your precious comments to "Author.1992@pm.me" . Read more

En fransman i Stockholm 1844-45

By: François Rouel

Narrated by: Helge

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

En tidig höstdag år 1844 kommer François Rouel och hans följeslagare till Stockholm för att delta i kröningen av kung Oskar I. Efter en händelserik, men inte så trevlig första dag som fransman i Stockholm, skriver han senare: "Inte trodde jag, vid första dagen av min vistelse i huvudstaden, att jag sedermera skulle komma att bli kvar där i... Read more

What White People Can Do Next

By: Emma Dabiri

Narrated by: Emma Dabiri

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.

Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be agents of change... Read more

Imperiofilia y el populismo nacional-católico

By: Jose Luis Villacañas

Narrated by: Jorge Gonzalez Sánchez

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

En 2016, Elvira Roca Barea publicó "Imperiofobia y la leyenda negra", un ensayo que se proponía desmontar las bases de un antiespañolismo que desde hace siglos habría estado tergiversando la historia de nuestro país, dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras. Con más de 100.000 ejemplares vendidos, y defendido por figuras como Arcadi Espada, Mario... Read more

Passing Tales

By: R.C. Waldun

Narrated by: R.C. Waldun

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From going on a not-so-ideal date to accidentally downing a carton of raw bacon, alongside attempts of dealing with dyslexia at the post office, Passing Tales is a collection of vignettes and short stories that exposes everyday life as a breeding ground for absurd encounters and hearty chuckles.
Vignettes:1: Maybe I Should Follow The Tracks2:... Read more

كوني أنثى متكاملة

By: فاطمة أسد

Narrated by: محمد محمود

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"الأنوثة.. لطالما بحثت عن مفهومها وما تحمل في طياتها من قيم، توهم للحظة بأنها نعومة الصوت لحد الذوبان! وخُيل لي لوهلة أنها بإبراز معالم الجسد!.. حاولت أن أراها كما يصوّرها المجتمع.. ولكن لم تعجبني نظرتهم لها! بل كانت مؤسفة باللنسبة لي.. فبعضهم صورها عورة لا يُسمح لها بالظهور للعالم أصلاً، وبعضهم فسرها حرية بلا حدود، وإلى مالانهاية، وبعضهم وقف... Read more

Meluku

By: Girish Karnad

Narrated by: Raghu Shivamogga

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕರ್ನಾಡ್ ಅವರ ಲೇಖನಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ. Read more

Querida Jane, querida Charlotte

By: Espido Freire

Narrated by: Espido Freire

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Espido Freire nos lleva al mundo imaginario y geográfico de Jane Austen y las Brontë. En palabras de su propia autora, "la novela del XVIII presenta una limpieza de formas, una estructura y una percepción de la sociedad muy refrescante, frente a la emoción, los juicios y la crítica a la que estamos acostumbrados. Austen aboga por la... Read more

Sidecountry

By: John Branch

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times reporter John Branch's riveting, humane pieces about ordinary people doing extraordinary things at the edges of the sporting world have won nearly every major journalism prize. Sidecountry gathers the best of Branch's work, featuring twenty of his favorites from the more than 2,000 pieces he has published in the paper.



Branch is... Read more