Essays audiobooks

Letters to My White Male Friends

By: Dax-Devlon Ross

Narrated by: Dax-Devlon Ross

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Author Dax-Devlon Ross radiates the equanimity needed for listeners to absorb his healing perspectives. His performance is adroit and appealing, and has the added benefit of palpable commitment to his insights and engagement with his personal stories." -- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

In Letters to My White Male Friends,... Read more

Northern Light

By: Kazim Ali

Narrated by: Kazim Ali

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of... Read more

Satisfied

By: Alyssa Joy Bethke

Narrated by: Alyssa Joy Bethke

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop focusing on what you lack and start feeling grateful and satisfied with what you have!

Touching on topics like fear, worry, dissatisfaction, anxiety, and body image, Alyssa Bethke walks you through issues that rob you of your joy and helps you recognize them for what they are: distractions.

With all of its expectations and contradictions,... Read more

The Science of Jurassic World

By: Mark Brake & Jon Chase

Narrated by: David Doersch

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet—unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science.



It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. Jurassic Park became the... Read more

A la conquista del cuerpo equivocado

By: Miquel Missé

Narrated by: Pol Nubiala

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El relato más popular sobre la transexualidad ha señalado que nuestro malestar reside en nuestro cuerpo y la solución es transformarlo. Sin embargo, otras voces han querido impugnar ese relato con nuevas preguntas: ¿y si el origen de nuestro malestar no estuviera en nuestro cuerpo?, ¿seguiría estando en el cuerpo el remedio? Encontrar una... Read more

Por favor, cierra los ojos

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Hoy día, el exceso de información, de transparencia y de rendimiento nos ha conducido a un tiempo incapaz de callar ni de concluir ningún proceso, un tiempo que ya no exhala ningún aroma. Pero el pensamiento no es posible sin silencio. Para poder pensar y concluir, hay que poder cerrar los ojos y contemplar. "Hoy es necesaria una evolución del... Read more

Omelette

By: Jessie Ware

Narrated by: Jessie Ware

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Musings on food, society and life from one of the country's best loved foodies. Includes bonus material exclusive to the audiobook.

"Are you hungry darling, shall I make you an omelette?"

My mother's omelettes are slightly overdone but always generous in cheese and well-seasoned. My omelettes are just the same, though more often slightly... Read more

What's the Difference?

By: Brette Warshaw

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the popular What’s the Difference? Newsletter, a whimsical and practical reference for food nerds and novices alike, covering dozens of culinary topics, that clears up confusion over similar terms, techniques, dishes, and more.

Do you know the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? Bourbon and rye? Crumbles, cobblers, and... Read more

The Blue Wonder

By: Frauke Bagusche

Narrated by: Kristina Lao

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate account of the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean.

In The Blue Wonder, marine biologist and diver Frauke Bagusche brings readers on a fascinating and beautiful deep-sea dive into the ocean. Drawing on scientific discoveries and her own research, she uses photographs and playful prose to reveal:
deep-sea reefs that... Read more

Contra la España vacía

By: Sergio del Molino

Narrated by: Sergio del Molino

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sergio del Molino vuelve sobre «el país que nunca fue» «El ensayista más original e imprevisible de España.»
Carlos Alsina En su publicación, La España vacía sorprendió por su inusual mezcla de géneros: libro de viajes, ensayo literario, novela, crónica social... Y seha convertido ya en un clásico reciente sobre la mirada de un escritor a su... Read more

We Can Do Better Than This

By: Amelia Abraham

Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou A...

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? 35 extraordinary voices share their stories and visions for the future.

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people... Read more

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—The New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for the first time.

With razor-sharp wit and insight,... Read more

The Heartbeat of Trees

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESA powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific... Read more

As a Dog Thinketh

By: Monique Anstee

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Daily reflections, guidance, and sound advice from a top trainer and competitor.Confused by your canine? Monique Anstee believes we have made dog training much too hard, when it really is very simple. Anstee teaches you to think differently, which will help you get out of your mind and into the moment.Monique Anstee trains dogs kindly, but... Read more

A True History of the United States

By: Daniel A. Sjursen

Narrated by: Daniel A. Sjursen

Length: 24 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history."  —Kirkus (starred review)

Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s... Read more

Still Breathing

By: Suzette Llewellyn & Suzanne Packer

Narrated by: Suzette Llewelyn & Suzanne Packer

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the project’s editors, Suzette Llewellyn and Suzanne Packer.A timely book and a conversation starter on race in Britain.’ Rachel Edwards, Author of Darling and Lucky‘A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain still has a very long way to go towards becoming the model of racial equality... Read more

Islands of Abandonment

By: Cal Flyn

Narrated by: Cal Flyn

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence
 
"[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence.'" --The New Yorker

Some of the only truly feral... Read more

Mud, Rocks, Blazes

By: Heather Anderson

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her bestselling memoir, Thirst, here is the next step in Heather “Anish” Anderson’s adventurous life journey—one of deep emotion and self-discoveryDespite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather “Anish” Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became... Read more

Llega el monstruo. Covid-19, gripe aviar y las plagas de capitalismo

By: Mike Davis

Narrated by: Luis Grau

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

El reconocido activista y escritor Mike Davis ofrece un pronóstico aterrador de una nueva amenaza global y establece la crisis de la COVID-19 en el contexto de catástrofes virales anteriores, como la gripe de 1918, que mató al menos a cuarenta millones de personas en tres meses, o la más reciente gripe aviar, un toque de atención desastrosamente... Read more

How to Live

By: Derek Sivers

Narrated by: Derek Sivers

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Not quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It’s a work of art about conflicting philosophies.Many books believe they know how you should live. But each book disagrees with the next. In “How to Live”, each chapter believes it knows how you should live. And each chapter disagrees with the next.One chapter makes a compelling argument for why you... Read more

Outlandish

By: Nick Hunt

Narrated by: Nick Hunt

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.

In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval... Read more

The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste

By: Rajat Parr & Jordan Mackay

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the prestigious André Simon Drink Book Award

The first definitive reference book to describe, region-by-region, how the great wines of Europe should taste. This will be the go-to guide for aspiring sommeliers, wine aficionados who want to improve their blind tasting skills, and amateur enthusiasts looking for a straightforward and... Read more

Languages of Truth

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Raj Ghatak & Salman Rushdie

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual... Read more

Comfort Me with Apples

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, humor, and marvelous meals.When listeners left Ruth at the end of Tender at the Bone, she was in Berkeley, California, working as a chef at the Swallow restaurant. Comfort Me with Apples picks up in 1978;... Read more