Essays audiobooks

All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**

"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." —The Houston Chronicle

A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.

The second volume in the... Read more

Don’t Go There

By: Adam Fletcher

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

It was supposed to be a normal city break . . .



. . . it ended in the strangest places in the world.



They shouldn't have tear gassed bestselling (bald) author Adam Fletcher. It ruined his supposedly normal holiday in Istanbul, made him curious, and began a quest to visit places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally... Read more

Indigenous Writes

By: Chelsea Vowel

Narrated by: Brianne Tucker

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace… Are you familiar with the terms listed above? In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue... Read more

A Cat's Tale

By: Dr. Paul Koudounaris & Baba the Cat

Narrated by: Heather Pasternak

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of felines—from the laps of pagan gods to present-day status as meme stars—as revealed by a very learned tabby with a knack for hunting down facts

Since the dawn of civilization, felines have prowled alongside mankind as they expanded their territory and spread the myth of human greatness. And today, cats are... Read more

Contra los hijos

By: Lina Meruane

Narrated by: Luciana Falcon

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Rudo e impío, y cargado de humor, Contra los hijos cuestiona los discursos culturales que promueven la preeminencia del hijo y lo llevan a ocupar un lugar despótico en el siglo XXI. Versión revisada y ampliada del publicado en 2014, este ensayo es una provocadora advertencia contra el retorno de un modelo conservador que pretende devolver a las... Read more

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020

By: C. J. Box & Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Dan John Miller, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Chris...

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box.

C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library... Read more

The Best American Short Stories 2020

By: Curtis Sittenfeld & Heidi Pitlor

Narrated by: Curtis Sittenfeld, Soneela Nankani, Peter Ganim...

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later,... Read more

Earth Keeper

By: N. Scott Momaday

Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

""Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose."" — EsquireA magnificent testament to the earth, from... Read more

Be My Guest

By: Priya Basil

Narrated by: Priya Basil

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large.

Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation on what it means to tend to others and to... Read more

Baseball History: The History of Baseball Along With Fascinating Facts & Unbelievably True Stories

By: Ace McCloud

Narrated by: Joshua Mackey

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you love to explore the incredible and exciting history of baseball?
Whether you want to (1) learn amazing and interesting facts about baseball history, (2) discover some of baseball’s greatest events and stories, or (3) be thoroughly entertained as you learn how baseball has evolved over the years, this audio book will give you everything... Read more

La mentira noble

By: Carlos Peña

Narrated by: Lucas Medina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Carlos Peña aborda y polemiza en este breve ensayo el concepto de meritocracia
Hoy día uno de los debates más frecuentes, que ha dado origen a ríos de tinta, es el del lugar que le caben al mérito y a la suerte, es decir, al esfuerzo y a la fortuna, en la distribución de recursos y de oportunidades ¿Cuántos bienes han de correspondernos en... Read more

Jiboner Lokhkhyo ebong Anyanya Rochona

By: Pabitra Adhikary

Narrated by: Sanchaita Biswas & Ashish Hazra

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Collection of esseys by Pabitra Adhikary Read more

C'mere and I Tell Ya

By: Johnny McMahon & Johnny O'Brien

Narrated by: Johnny McMahon & Johnny O'Brien

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The 2 Johnnies' massive success has taken them as far afield as Sydney, Compton and Abu Dhabi. But for them nothing compares to living in Ireland. And in C'Mere and I Tell Ya they dig into the tastes, habits and rites of passage that have made them who they are.

Whether it's ...
- dressing for the debs ('I'd say my... Read more

Call the Vet

By: Bruce Fogle

Narrated by: Bruce Fogle

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Arriving in 1970s’ London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions… Bruce began his career at... Read more

The Gifts of Reading

By: Robert Macfarlane, William Boyd, Candice Carty-...

Narrated by: Damian Lynch, Frank Laverty, Gabrielle Glaister...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Said, Madeleine Thien, Salley Vickers, John... Read more

Southern Horrors

By: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Royal Jaye

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by a persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read.” —Frederick... Read more

I'll Be Seeing You

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved New York Times bestselling author tells the moving love story of caring for her parents in their final years in this beautifully written memoir.

Elizabeth Berg’s father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife. Berg describes her parents’ marriage as a... Read more

Where I Come From

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun

Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the stories and history of the Deep South, filled with “eclectic nuggets about... Read more

Gods at Play

By: Tom Callahan

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story.



As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto... Read more

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die

By: Michel de Montaigne & Charles Cotton

Narrated by: Douglas Harvey

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We all die, sooner or later. We all know it, and we wonder when, where, and how it may happen. and yet we go to extraordinary lengths to put the thought of it out of our minds. We hesitate to bring it up in conversations. Montaigne, who … essay, addressed this issue head on in “To Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die.” It is perhaps his... Read more

How Not To Be Wrong

By: James O'Brien

Narrated by: James O'Brien

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's no point having a mind if you never change it

In his bestselling How To Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is 'If you're so sure about everything, haven't you ever changed your mind?'

In an age of us vs. them, tribal... Read more

L'amour, la haine et le cerveau

By: Michel Rochon

Narrated by: Michel Rochon

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Que se passe-t-il donc dans la tête d’un Homo sapiens lorsqu’une passion amoureuse l’entraîne dans la déraison et les extravagances? Ou bien lorsqu’une animosité en lui se transforme en sentiment de haine ? Les neurosciences nous éclairent maintenant très bien sur ces deux pulsions – amour, haine – qui sont, l’une et l’autre, des rouages... Read more

Our Moment of Choice

By: Robert Atkinson, Kurt Johnson & Deborah Moldow

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar, Danielle Cohen, Janina Edwards, La...

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOLD NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD * 2021 SILVER COVR VISIONARY AWARD * 2021 NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD * 2021 GOLD LIVING NOW AWARD

“This innovative and revolutionary message of hope and wisdom from many of the greatest visionaries” (Anita Moorjani, New York Times bestselling author) is a rousing call-to-action for all of us to help... Read more

Ex Libris

By: Michiko Kakutani

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares her enthusiasm for more than 100 books in a series of succinct, thought-provoking essays.

“An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical... Read more