Essays audiobooks

The Storytellers

By: Mark Rubinstein

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance,...

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these... Read more

Alaska Traveler

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before Statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar-award winning mystery writer with over twenty-five Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows Alaska.



Writing for Alaska Magazine, she... Read more

Mujeres valientes

By: Txell Feixas Torras

Narrated by: Yasmina Álvarez

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

En este lugar del mundo, en esa región que recorre de Oriente Medio a Afganistán, hay una revolución en marcha. Es la revolución de las mujeres. Una lucha sin cuartel ni final contra el patriarcado que domina la política, la cultura y la sociedad. A veces, esa lucha es por la mera supervivencia. Otras, una lucha consciente y organizada por... Read more

La búsqueda de la felicidad

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Preguntarse por la naturaleza de la felicidad equivale a cuestionar el sentido y el fin de la existencia. La felicidad es una bu´squeda a lo largo de la vida de cada persona; la infelicidad, en cambio, es el abandono del deseo de seguir viviendo. Ma´s que una meta, la felicidad es un estado de a´nimo, el anhelo de una vida plena. No es objeto de... Read more

A sangre y fuego

By: Manuel Chaves Nogales

Narrated by: Carlos Alsina

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Los relatos que componen este libro están considerados por muchos como lo mejor que se ha escrito en España sobre nuestra guerra civil. Redactados entre 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales, retratan distintos sucesos de la guerra que Chaves Nogales conoció directamente: «Cada uno de sus episodios ha sido... Read more

Orient-Express

By: Mauricio Wiesenthal

Narrated by: Sergio Bustos de la Tijera

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

El Orient-Express fue durante décadas el símbolo de una Europa diversa llena de diversos personajes, olores, colores y sabores, unidos por este tren que, más que un medio de transporte, fue una forma extraordinaria de civilización y entendimiento entre los pueblos. Mauricio Wiesenthal, con su prosa envolvente y fragante, nos transporta a países... Read more

Elogio de la duda

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Fue Bertrand Russell quien dijo que la filosofía es siempre un ejercicio de escepticismo. Aprender a dudar implica distanciarse de lo dado y poner en cuestión los tópicos y los prejuicios, cuestionar lo incuestionable. No para rechazarlo sin más, sino para examinarlo, analizarlo, razonarlo y, por fin, decidir. Elogio de la duda recorre las... Read more

What Is a Dog?

By: Chloe Shaw

Narrated by: Cissy Jones

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of her family’s beloved dog’s death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in order to imagine the human she hopes to become in the future in her memoir, What Is a Dog?

Chloe Shaw is in a dog house of her own choosing. A married mother with kids, the death of Booker, her children’s eldest family pet, has left her reeling and... Read more

Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

Narrated by: Sophia Benoit

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud funny” (Vogue) memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood—from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life’s constant double standards—perfect for fans of Shrill and PEN15.

Like so many women, Sophia... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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