Essays audiobooks

Ein schöner Tag - Reisereportage aus der Eifel - Endlich Eifel, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

By: Stephan Falk & Jeannette Fentroß

Narrated by: Anne Fink

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein schöner Tag in der Eifel mit Besuchen in außergewöhnlichen Orten und Begegnungen mit interessanten Typen, die in dieser Region leben und arbeiten. Der Tag beginnt beim Genussmenschen und Kaffeeröster Alfons Schramer in der Südeifel im luxemburgischen Echternach und führt anschließend in die mystische Teufelsschlucht bei Ferschweiler mit... Read more

Die infantile Gesellschaft – Wege aus der selbstverschuldeten Unreife

By: Alexander Kissler

Narrated by: Dominic Kolb

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Herrschaft der Kindsköpfe – über das Unbehagen in Kultur und Politik Gefühl ist Trumpf, Argumente stören, und Diskretion war gestern. Wir haben uns in eine Gesellschaft der Kindsköpfe verwandelt, das infantile Prinzip herrscht: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt der bekannte Publizist Alexander Kissler in seinem neuen Buch. Erwachsene verhalten sich... Read more

Uprooted

By: Page Dickey

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal

When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and... Read more

Barcelona. Libro de los pasajes

By: Jorge Carrión

Narrated by: Carles Sianes

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Espacios mágicos y rituales, laboratorios de la cultura y de la técnica, los pasajes permiten pensar el gran texto urbano desde sus notas a pie de página. En Barcelona hay cerca de cuatrocientos. Algunos son caminos que conducen a un pasado rural; otros, pasadizos proletarios o callejones de chabolas que hablan de la metrópolis fabril y del... Read more

A Field Guide to a Happy Life

By: Massimo Pigliucci

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant philosopher reimagines Stoicism for our modern age in this thought-provoking guide to a better life.
For more than two thousand years, Stoicism has offered a message of resilience in the face of hardship. Little wonder, then, that it is having such a revival in our own troubled times. But there is no denying how weird it can be: Is it... Read more

When We Free The World

By: Kevin Powell

Narrated by: Kevin Powell

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning and brutally honest survey of America, yesterday and today, and what he hopes for its future, through the window of his own very painful personal trials - as #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, mass shootings, immigration, a global pandemic, and Donald Trump rotate... Read more

Contra Amazon

By: Jorge Carrión

Narrated by: Javier Serrano Palacio

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Las bibliotecas y las librerías –reales o de ficción, recorridas o leídas– son escenarios fundamentales de nuestra educación sentimental e intelectual. En este libro de crónicas que ensayan y de ensayos narrativos, Jorge Carrión viaja a las innovadoras bibliotecas y librerías de Seúl; investiga en Nápoles y en Capri la historia de la mítica casa... Read more

Reservoir Year

By: Nina Shengold

Narrated by: Kathleen McNenny

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, trying to find something new every time. Armed with lively curiosity, infectious enthusiasm, and renewed stubbornness, she hits... Read more

Carry

By: Toni Jensen

Narrated by: Toni Jensen

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • Goop Book Club Pick • “Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy... Read more

A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World

By: John Rember

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events—and the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a compelling, surprising, disturbing, and highly literate work of reportage and contemplation. It is both a... Read more

A Year of Playing Catch

By: Ethan D. Bryan

Narrated by: Jakob Lewis

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey with prolific author and avid baseball fan Ethan Bryan on an exciting quest to play catch every day for a year, and discover the lessons he learned about the sacredness of play, finding connections, and being fully present to the human experience. A Casey Award finalist!Ethan Bryan played and wrote about baseball for years. Then his... Read more

Graced by Waters

By: John Dietsch

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

John Dietsch—fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It—explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss.



In this inspirational and humorous collection of essays, author John Dietsch sees his... Read more

The Writer's Library

By: Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager

Narrated by: Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager, Xe Sands, Dominic H...

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea, Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’s Library audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami. With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's... Read more

Wheels Galore!

By: Iain M. MacLeod

Narrated by: Tony McGeever

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Through his unique blend of Scottish good humour, real-life experience, and funny stories of mishaps and misadventures, Iain M. MacLeod draws the reader into his vibrant life from childhood to the present, a life not defined by Cerebral Palsy, which he has had since the age of three. Racing from one adventure to the next on wheels galore, from... Read more

The Psychology of Final Fantasy: Surpassing The Limit Break

By: Anthony Bean, PhD

Narrated by: Gabriella Pitchford

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew." - Lulu, Final Fantasy X.From its initial release in 1987, Final Fantasy has gone on to become one of the most beloved series of role-playing games in history. With narratives revolving around grandiose stories of good versus evil, Final Fantasy has allowed us, as... Read more

Seen and Unseen

By: Russell Darley

Narrated by: Russell Darley

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping view of Asia and the Pacific through a series of literary essays written by Australian Russell Darnley, who earned an OAM for services he provided after the Bali Bombings.

Malaria, cockfights and magic are confronting realities in the Asia-Pacific region, yet beyond these more remains unseen and misunderstood. These cultures also exert... Read more

Ask Me What's for Dinner One More Time

By: Meredith Masony

Narrated by: Meredith Masony

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of That’s Inappropriate—one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web—comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood.

Meredith Masony founded That’s Inappropriate in 2014 as an innocent and humorous way to chronicle her chaotic days as a working mom, child wrangler, and busy... Read more

White Hot Light

By: Frank Huyler

Narrated by: Gary Bennett

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.

In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of... Read more

One for the Road

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Nathaniel Horwitz

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he... Read more

The Socrates Express

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.

We turn to philosophy for the same reasons... Read more

Hernán Cortés

By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Narrated by: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hernán Cortés y Motecuzoma protagonizaron el choque de culturas más trascendente de la historia de la humanidad. Todo en la historia del mundo moderno es producto de ese encuentro y esa conquista. "Toda nuestra historia se integra en Hernán Cortés. Odiarlo no nos ha servido y no ha resuelto nada. Amarlo no es necesario. Aceptarlo e integrarlo en... Read more

If These Lips Could Talk

By: Frank Pace & Billy O'Connor

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword by Brooke Shields -- From the edge of Hollywood’s spotlight into the locker rooms of America, If These Lips Could Talk gives you a producer’s unfettered access to big-named actors and athletes you have long known and admired. Be warned...some of these people are not who they appear to be! Featured players include: Sandra... Read more

Everything in Moderation

By: Daniel Finkelstein

Narrated by: Daniel Finkelstein

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company – sane, intelligent and witty. He deals with serious subjects in an immensely readable way … If I'm asked to nominate my book of the year, this will be it' WENDY COPE Writing on everything from a defence... Read more

High Tech and Hot Pot

By: Stephan Orth

Narrated by: Brent Hirose

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer reveals a changing China—one conversation and adventure at a time.When Stephan Orth lands in China, he knows it’s his last visit, having lied about his job as a journalist to get into the country. So, he makes the most of it, couch-surfing with locals instead of hitting the nearest hotel. Starting in Macau—a former... Read more