Essays audiobooks

You Can't Lose Them All

By: Sal Iacono

Narrated by: Sal Iacono & Jimmy Kimmel

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way.
Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players,... Read more

Yards and Stripes

By: Michael Francis

Narrated by: Michael Francis

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A Manhattan Misfit's Guide to Suburban SurvivalEver wondered what would happen if you threw away a perfectly good corporate career to do something you know absolutely nothing about? Meet Michael Francis, who did exactly that when he traded his New York City suit for a pair of gardening gloves and headed to the wilds of Greenwich, Connecticut.In... Read more

Reel Bay

By: Jana Larson

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there? Unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor... Read more

The Solace of Open Spaces

By: Gretel Ehrlich

Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced

“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard

Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she... Read more

Homo Irrealis

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: André Aciman & Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.

Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a... Read more

Boomers

By: Helen Andrews

Narrated by: Nicole Parnell

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle

With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake... Read more

결혼해도 괜찮아

By: 박혜란

Narrated by: 김경진

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

결혼 45년차 여성학자 박혜란은 결혼에 대해 무슨 이야기를 할까? -[다시 아이를 키운다면][믿는 만큼 자라는 아이들] 베스트셀러 저자 박혜란 취업 출산 결혼을 포기했다고 해서 '삼포세대'라는 말이 생기고, 결혼하는 사람보다 이혼하는 사람들이 많아지는 세상에 '결혼해도 괜찮다?' 결혼 45년차 여성학자 박혜란은 결혼에 대해 무슨 이야기를 할까? 이제는 이적 엄마로 더 많이 알려진 베스트셀러 저자 박혜란은 특유의 유쾌한 글쓰기로 결혼을 비틀기 한다. "결혼이 진흙탕이라고? 그래! 진흙탕 맞아, 근데 너만 빠진 거 아니잖아. 너만 빠지면 불행하지만 모두가 함께 빠지면 진흙탕도 놀이터가 될 수 있어." 지금부터... Read more

Rilassamento

By: Andrzej Budzinski

Narrated by: Stefano Trillini

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A parte il contenuto che è molto interessante e utile... facile da leggere perché scritto in modo leggero, “colpisce” come la pubblicità...tocca profondamente e fa riflettere...non lascia il lettore indifferente...interessante e direi anche nuovo e originale, tutto fatto a slogan, con frasi brevi che tendono a colpire il lettore con il detto... Read more

Otro fin del mundo es posible

By: Alejandro Gaviria

Narrated by: Alejandro Gaviria

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Durante el confinamiento obligatorio del primer semestre de este año, Alejandro Gaviria entabló una conversación peculiar con el filósofo inglés Aldous Huxley. Fiel a su idea de que "la lectura es un acto de creación", se dedicó a leer y releer los ensayos y novelas de este autor, que considera imprescindible y un auténtico pensador del... Read more

Plaidoyer pour la véritable liberté, égalité, fraternité

By: Edouard Nelson

Narrated by: Philip Kapitaniuk

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité !La devise de notre République française est magnifique. Elle inspire nos révolutions et orne fièrement nos bâtiments publics. Trois mots simples, mais qui reflètent nos plus profondes aspirations. Seulement voilà, avouons qu'ils portent en eux un idéal plus qu'une réalité. Quelle frustration !Serait-il possible... Read more

الشاي.. ثقافات.. طقوس.. حكايات

By: كريستوف بيترز

Narrated by: شادي عباس

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

في هذا الكتاب، يقوم الكاتب والخبير بالشاي "كريستوف بيترز" بحديث مطول مع القارئ عن الشاي. ويحكي في هذا الكتاب عن ولعه بذلك المشروب المُلهِم المتنوع وعن فن إعداده، الذي يُسبِّب السعادة. منذ كان فتى يافعًا، يُفضِّل "كريستوف بيترز" جمع أواني الشاي أكثر من جمع الإسطوانات، والآن ينهمك لساعاتٍ كثيرة كل أسبوع في معرفة السُبُل المختلفة التي تُمكِّنه من... Read more

Midnight Chicken

By: Ella Risbridger

Narrated by: Ella Risbridger

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Midnight Chicken written and read by Ella Risbridger.
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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020
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‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson

‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ –... Read more

Three Simple Lines

By: Natalie Goldberg

Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku

A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that “make the mind leap.” A good one, he said, lets the mind experience “a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God.” As many... Read more

Mobile Home

By: Megan Harlan

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering... Read more

Como sapiens

By: Lucas Llach

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

El conflicto entre nuestros instintos y cuerpo de Homo sapiens y la vida que llevamos es cada vez mayor. ¿Qué humanidad estamos construyendo?
Nuestra especie no era la única ni la más prometedora de las varias versiones de humanos en el planeta hace 200.000 años. Pero lo conquistó. Salió de su cuna en África y ocupó todos los continentes.... Read more

Aim of Life and Other Articles

By: Pabitra Adhikary

Narrated by: Ashish Hazra & Rohini Chatterjee

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of articles by Pabitra Adhikary Read more

Back to Nature

By: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin

Narrated by: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Optimistic field notes from the new normal for nature

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful.

Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and fascinating scientific discoveries, Back to Nature captures... Read more

The Particulars of Peter

By: Kelly Conaboy

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg & Kelly Conaboy

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

"This might be one of the month’s, if not the year’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post

"A hilarious addition to the dogoir canon.” ―People

"Perhaps the greatest love story ever told.” ―Refinery29 "The feel-good book the world needs." —PopSugar 
From one of the Internet's most original voices, a hilarious journey through the odd... Read more

En el limbo

By: Estanislao Bachrach

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz & Estanislao Bachrach

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Con Ágilmente Estanislao Bachrach puso de moda la neurociencia. Con En el limbo -luego de años de investigación- el divulgador científico más lúcido de la década nos presenta una nueva teoría sobre las emociones que barre por completo con los viejos conceptos que aún hoy intentan imponer los ensayos de autores que repiten viejas fórmulas. ... Read more

Paddling North

By: Audrey Sutherland

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"

In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast... Read more

Paddling My Own Canoe

By: Audrey Sutherland

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Book for Connoisseurs of Wild Places of the EarthAn Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now

In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and... Read more

Fire Flood Plague

By: Sophie Cunningham

Narrated by: Aimee Horne & Rupert Degas

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 began with fire storms raging through the country, followed by floods, and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all us: this is a year we won't forget.

This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of... Read more

An Outsider's Guide to Humans

By: Camilla Pang PhD

Narrated by: Camilla Pang PhD

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

An instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger's syndrome allows her--and us--to see ourselves in a different way...and to be better at being human

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand... Read more

The Grand Gypsy

By: Ottavio Canestrelli with Ottavio Gesmundo

Narrated by: Ottavio Gesmundo

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What do Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, and Ed Sullivan have in common? Ottavio Canestrelli crossed paths with each. He performed with the Krone Circus in Italy and Germany from 1922 to 1924 on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power; he witnessed a rally for Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1931; and he appeared twice on the Ed Sullivan Show during the... Read more