Essays audiobooks

One Long River of Song

By: Brian Doyle

Narrated by: George Newbern, Mary Doyle, Liam Doyle, Lily Do...

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of... Read more

Losers

By: Mary Pilon & Louisa Thomas

Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Kevin R. Free, Brittany Pressley...

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson
 
Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to... Read more

Appalachian Fall

By: Jeff Young

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.

Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at... Read more

For the Love of Europe

By: Rick Steves

Narrated by: Rick Steves

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories.
Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese... Read more

Don't Panic

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Simon Jones & Neil Gaiman

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker!First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural... Read more

The Unreality of Memory

By: Elisa Gabbert

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.



The Unreality of Memory collects... Read more

Women in the Kitchen

By: Anne Willan

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Culinary historian Anne Willan “has melded her passions for culinary history, writing, and teaching into her fascinating new book” (Chicago Tribune) that traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve influential women—from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters—whose recipes and ideas... Read more

موسيقى الحوت الأزرق:الهوية، الكتابة، العنف

By: أدونيس

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

يقول أدونيس في هذا الكتاب:- "إننا نعيش في وضع يقول لنا أن الخطر اليوم علينا، نحن العرب، يجيء من جميع الجهات: من المستقبل، ومن الحاضر، ومن الماضي. ويقول لنا إن (ثقافة) اولئك الناطقين باسم (الأمة) و(ثوابتها) و(حقائقها المطلقة) لا تشوه المعرفة وطرقها وحسب، وإنما تلغيها كذلك. إنها (ثقافة) مؤسسة على خلل أصلي في العلاقات بين الأسماء والأشياء، بل ليس... Read more

How to Be a Fascist

By: Michela Murgia

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradise.

Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to... Read more

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

By: Lisa Donovan

Narrated by: Lisa Donovan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

"Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen... Read more

My Life as a Villainess

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Laura Lippman

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience.  Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising. Meet the... Read more

Tales of Two Planets

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, David DeSantos, Peter Ganim, Alma...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.

In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta,... Read more

Değişen Beynim - Abridged

By: Sinan Canan

Narrated by: Yüce Armağan Erkek

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bu kitap bizzat sizinle, bizimle ilgili... Anne karnından yaşamımızın sonuna kadar tüm yaşamımızı yönetmek gibi çetin bir işle mükellef o muhteşem et parçasının, yani beyninizin başrolü oynadığı bir macerayı yaşıyoruz hep birlikte. Bu maceranın adı ise "hayat"... Bir sinirbilimci olarak, beyin hakkında herkesin bilmesi gerektiğini... Read more

Mudlark River

By: Simon Wilcox

Narrated by: Simon Wilcox

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The discovery of a Victorian map in a London antiques shop takes Simon Wilcox on a journey down the Thames: his mission a bit like that of those Victorian river scavengers, the mudlarks, to forage about on the shoreline for something of value.The mudlarks found old coins, and objects washed up from ships anchored in the London docks. Tramping... Read more

The Virus in the Age of Madness

By: Bernard-Henri Levy

Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher... Read more

Horse People

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story—sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed—of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor,... Read more

Reading Backwards

By: John Crowley

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading Backwards opens with the autobiographical "My Life in the Theater," a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with the moving and memorable "Practicing the Arts of Peace." In between, the author offers us more than thirty carefully crafted essays, each one notable for its insight, intelligence, and typically... Read more

Union

By: Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh

Narrated by: Cameron Scoggins, Jordan Blashek & Christopher ...

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Two friends—a Democrat and a Republican—travel across America "on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation . . . to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives" (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad.

In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a... Read more

Crossing Boundaries

By: Aziz Abu Sarah

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential strategy book for how to have transformative, sustainable, responsible travel experiences-starting at your own front door. Recognized Peacemaker and National Geographic Explorer Aziz Abu Sarah shows how, by crossing boundaries, we can heal our world from stereotypes, prejudice, and ignorance.


How can we bring together a world... Read more

Crossing Boundaries

By: Aziz Abu Sarah

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Aziz Abu Sarah rightly reminds us that it's not more travel we should be after, but the right kind of travel—one that treads lightly, highlights multiple perspectives (including traditionally marginalized ones), and fosters personal transformation, which is the key to a better world.” 
—Norie Quintos, Editor at Large, National Geographic Travel... Read more

The Inner Coast

By: Donovan Hohn

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the bestselling author of Moby-Duck.



Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely... Read more

Take Back the Tray

By: Joshna Maharaj

Narrated by: Joshna Maharaj

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. “With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ― Raj... Read more

Dear NHS

By: Various

Narrated by: Caitlin Moran, Candice Carty-Williams, Ed Sheer...

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

FEATURES 75 STORIES NARRATED BY THEIR AUTHORS

Curated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald,... Read more

Ins Astloch gemurmelt - Abridged

By: Christian Hölbling

Narrated by: Christian Hölbling

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Christian Hölbling ist ein feiner Beobachter der kleinen Welt und schließt daraus oft auf die große. Denn er merkt, dass die Globalisierung längst in unserem Dorf gelandet ist. Obwohl er meint, dass man so manche Kritik genauso gut in ein Astloch murmeln könnte, versucht er sich mit diesem Buch doch als Aufklärer. Seine Texte sind pointiert... Read more