Essays audiobooks

The Book of Nonexistent Words

By: Stefano Massini

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities.How many times have words not been enough?How many complex feelings don’t have a... Read more

A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage

By: Guirec Soudée

Narrated by: Trevor Lawless

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST

A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.

When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out... Read more

A Carnival of Snackery

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris & Tracey Ullman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it.
 
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight... Read more

Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

By: Jen Winston

Narrated by: Jen Winston

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily, Glamour, Shondaland, BuzzFeed, and more!

A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit—and anyone who wants, and deserves, to be seen.

If Jen Winston knows... Read more

The Joy of Small Things

By: Hannah Jane Parkinson

Narrated by: Hannah Jane Parkinson

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to... Read more

But You Seemed So Happy

By: Kimberly Harrington

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life.Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their divorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about divorce — heavy... Read more

قراصنة المتوسط

By: مؤلفين فرنسيين

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

يأخذنا الكتاب في رحلة عبر القرون الوسطى حيث كان الصراع غاية في الشراسة للسيطرة على حوض المتوسط كونه معبرًا اقتصاديًا مهمًا، ولكن الإقتتال بين الطرفين لم يكن كل شيء كما يكشف الكتاب.الذي يتناول الحديث عن مالطا،باعتبارها كانت - ولا تزال - حلقة الوصل بين القارتين: السمراء والعجوز. و في العام 1530 اكتسبت "مالطا" أهمية إضافية؛ إذ أصبحت واقعة تحت حكم... Read more

Los demasiados libros

By: Gabriel Zaid

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Reflexión aguda, sensata, amorosa que deben leer lectores, autores, editores, libreros... Una nueva edición, corregida y aumentada. Hay en la experiencia de leer una felicidad y libertad que resultan adictivas. La lectura libera. Se extiende a leer la vida, a leer quiénes somos y en dónde estamos. Anima las conversaciones de lector a lector. Se... Read more

Nocturno de la democracia mexicana

By: Héctor Aguilar Camín

Narrated by: Raúl Boxer

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nocturno de la democracia mexicana son tres libros en uno. Un análisis ágil y novedoso sobre los lastres que nos impone la historia; una puntual recapitulación de nuestra aún inacabada transición a la democracia, y una advertencia sobre las pulsiones autoritarias del nuevo gobierno. "La costumbre política mexicana, primera parte del libro, puede... Read more

Of This Our Country

By: Various

Narrated by: Weruche Opia & Oseloka Obi

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate picture... Read more

The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 30 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year

“An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A magnum opus from... Read more

The Matter of Black Lives

By: Jelani Cobb & David Remnick

Narrated by: JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, Maggi-M...

Length: 30 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private... Read more

Things Are Against Us

By: Lucy Ellmann

Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. As Yeats pointed out, things have a lot to answer for. These satirical essays jauntily tackle the obstinacy, incorrigibility, and recalcitrance of things, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s unimpressive descriptions of the construction of bobsleds and door latches, and the way we try to stand on our own two feet,... Read more

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?

With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable... Read more

India: A Wounded Civilization

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its... Read more

Signs and Wonders

By: Delia Falconer

Narrated by: Delia Falconer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards.

Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review.

The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our... Read more

Los que sobran

By: Juan Carlos Florez

Narrated by: Juan Carlos Florez

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

En este ensayo global se ponen de presente temas de una actualidad apabullante. Los propagandistas de este capitalismo tardío nos quieren hacer creer que no tenemos alternativas para él, lo cual es un embuste visto desde la perspectiva histórica. Todo sistema, toda cultura, toda civilización ha tenido un fin y de sus propias entrañas ha surgido... Read more

¿Y ahora yo qué hago?

By: Andreu Escrivà

Narrated by: Álvaro Blazquez

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

De acuerdo, el cambio climático es el mayor reto al que nos enfrentamos en el siglo XXI. Lo hemos oído mil veces, ¿pero qué quiere decir eso? ¿Cómo tengo que actuar en medio de mensajes apocalípticos y culpabilizadores? ¿Por qué no hago nada cuando sé que debería hacerlo? ¿Sirve de algo que yo cambie si no cambia el sistema económico? ¿Qué tiene... Read more

Hört einander zu!

By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Wiebke Puls

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Gleichberechtigung, Demokratie und Zukunft! Elif Shafak, eine der bedeutendsten Stimmen für Gleichberechtigung und freiheitliche Werte in Europa, zeigt mit viel Einsicht Wege auf, wie wir Demokratie, Einfühlungsvermögen und unseren Glauben an eine bessere und weisere Zukunft fördern können. Ihr Ansatz: Wir müssen endlich anfangen, uns... Read more

What Is History, Now?

By: Suzannah Lipscomb & Helen Carr

Narrated by: Helen Carr, Peter Kenny, Sara Powell & Suzannah...

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and... Read more

Openhearted

By: Ann Ingle

Narrated by: Ann Ingle & Michael Ingle

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .'

At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met... Read more

El mundo prehispánico para gente con prisa

By: Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

«Una cuenta de Twitter quiere acabar con los mitos de la Historia de México», así describió El País a Enrique Ortiz, mejor conocido como Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, divulgador de la historia que revela los detalles más atrevidos y los hechos más increíbles de la cultura que habitó el Valle de México y que se transformó radicalmente después de la... Read more

My Sh*t Therapist

By: Michelle Thomas

Narrated by: Michelle Thomas

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking, heart-rending, and blisteringly funny account of what it's like to live with mental illness, by a powerful new comic voice.



When Michelle Thomas suffered her first major depressive episode six years ago, she read and watched and listened to everything about mental health she could get her hands on in an effort to fix herself. God, it... Read more

El expolio nazi

By: Miguel Martorell

Narrated by: Juan Miguel Díez

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Han pasado más de setenta y cinco años desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y no hay semana que no aparezca alguna noticia sobre reclamaciones de las víctimas del expolio nazi o sus descendientes, a estados o museos de todo el planeta, para recobrar las obras de arte robadas durante la contienda. ¿Cómo llevó a cabo el Tercer Reich este... Read more