Essays audiobooks

A Nation of Women

By: Luisa Capetillo

Narrated by: Melanie Martinez & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo

A Penguin Classic

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern... Read more

Make Good the Promises

By: Kinshasha Holman Conwill & Paul Gardullo

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewAn incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the... Read more

I Take My Coffee Black

By: Tyler Merritt

Narrated by: Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Merritt, James Iglehart, Je...

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has... Read more

Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: Abbie Hoffman

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Christine Marshall

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Still Notorious, Radical, and Revolutionary 50 Years Later.
A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century—now with a new foreword by co-conspirator, Lisa Fithian.
 
Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America—some illegal and all... Read more

808s & Otherworlds

By: Sean Avery Medlin

Narrated by: Sean Avery Medlin

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"September’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" —Lambda Literary
"Most-Anticipated New LGBTQIA+ Books of 2021" —Paperback Paris"An elegant mash of memoir, poetry, tales of appropriation, thoughts on Black masculinity, Hulk, Kanye." —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean... Read more

Contra el fascismo

By: Umberto Eco

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente. «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y... Read more

Windswept

By: Annabel Abbs

Narrated by: Fenella Fudge

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves, including Georgia O’Keeffe in the empty plains of... Read more

The Passenger

By: Chaney Kwak

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated... Read more

The Scandal of the Century, and Other Writings

By: Gabriel García Márquez & Cristóbal Pera

Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s—work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction.“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel... Read more

The Kitchen Whisperers

By: Dorothy Kalins

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A beautifully written tribute to the people who teach us to cook and guide our hands in the kitchen, by a founding editor of Saveur.
The cooking lessons that stick with us are rarely the ones we read in books or learn through blog posts or YouTube videos (depending on your generation); they’re the ones we pick up as we spend time with good cooks... Read more

Thunder Dog

By: Michael Hingson

Narrated by: Christopher Prince

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, Thunder Dog tells the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the life-changing power of faith and trust in the face of terror.When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and... Read more

This Is Basic Sh*t

By: Kenya Barris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the creator of the award-winning TV series black-ish comes a collection of personal, hilarious, and provocative essays on what it's like to be black in America today.

In THIS IS BASIC SH*T, Kenya Barris uses his own personal stories to talk about race and class with the fierceness and humor that fans will recognize from black-ish. It will... Read more

Souvenir

By: Michael Bracewell

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant

'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope' John Burnside

'A... Read more

The Dark Tourist

By: Dom Joly

Narrated by: Dom Joly

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in... Read more

The Secret History of Food

By: Matt Siegel

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love
Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . .... Read more

Chewing the Fat

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson 'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley Tucci Why are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the... Read more

Smriti Satatoi Sukher

By: Pratibha Basu

Narrated by: Madhubanti Mitra

Length: 30 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

প্রতিভা বসু র এই স্মৃতিচারণ নিছকই এক বিশ্ব ভ্রমনের বৃত্তান্ত নয । স্মৃতির আযনায ধরা পড়েছে অসংখ্য জায়গা, মুহূর্ত এবং মানুষের প্রতিচ্ছবি। সর্বোপরি তাঁর জীবনসংগী বুদ্ধদেব বসুর এক অসামান্য ঘরোয়া চিত্র যা তাঁদের দুজনের যুগ্ম জীবনের এক ভালোবাসার জলছবি। শুনুন - শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল এ! Read more

سيمفونية عشق

By: أحمد الغزي

Narrated by: محمد الشموتي

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"لا تكتُب حرفاً وأنتَ تبكي إثر فراق، فسيظلُّ ما كتبت ملحاً يُرشُّ على جُرحكَ كلما قرأته" خواطر ومقتطفات يعرضها الكاتب أحمد الغزي دفقة شعورية تؤنس وحدتك استمع إلى كتاب "سيمفونية عشق" للكاتب أحمد الغزي على تطبيق كتاب صوتي Read more

Material Girls

By: Kathleen Stock

Narrated by: Kathleen Stock

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard

'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more

An Area of Darkness

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an... Read more

Suppose a Sentence

By: Brian Dillon

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.



In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex... Read more

God, Human, Animal, Machine

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues... Read more

Travels with my suitcase

By: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Narrated by: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A musician on the road travels with an ear to the ground.This story of a search for sound involves encounters with random buskers, sublime jazz festivals, quirky folk musicians and singers of many nationalities.Tales of suitcases, sculptures and instrumental characters collide in a compendium of discoveries across the island state of Tasmania,... Read more

Agitación. Sobre el mal de la impaciencia: Sobre el mal de la impaciencia

By: Jorge Freire

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Un inteligente análisis de uno de los males contemporáneos: aquel que sufre el Homo agitatus. Merecedor del XI Premio Málaga de Ensayo. En este audiolibro, Freire sostiene que, si la sociedad ha adoptado las hechuras de un carnaval perpetuo, detenerse a pensar es una buena forma de insumisión. Y lo hace siguiendo al francés Blaise Pascal que,... Read more