Essays audiobooks

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

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

Tomboyland

By: Melissa Faliveno

Narrated by: Melissa Faliveno

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It’s a... 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

The Cold Vanish

By: Jon Billman

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them.
 These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace... Read more

Essays One

By: Lydia Davis

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis



Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal... Read more

This Is Major

By: Shayla Lawson

Narrated by: Shayla Lawson

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture—for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You don’t know who she is. Yet. But that’s okay. She is on a mission to move black... Read more

Imperiofobia y leyenda negra

By: María Elvira Roca Barea

Narrated by: Nuria Santos

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

El ensayo más exitoso de los últimos tiempos, ganador del I PREMIO LOS LIBREROS RECOMIENDAN en la categoría de no ficción, en el que María Elvira Roca Barea acomete con rigor la cuestión de delimitar las ideas de imperio, leyenda negra e imperiofobia. En este volumen podemos entender qué tienen en común los imperios y las leyendas negras que... Read more

Japanese Dream: Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan

By: Hidemi Woods

Narrated by: Hidemi Woods

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A dream I wish to have in the night most isn’t about dating a Hollywood star, or making a great hit with my song. It’s not about my parents saying to me with tears “We were wrong. We’re sorry.” either.It’s about numbers. I once saw a woman on TV who won 4 million dollars by the lottery with the numbers she had seen in her dream. Shortly after... Read more

Letters to a Young Contrarian

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement

In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range... Read more

Unvarnished

By: Eric Alperin & Deborah Stoll

Narrated by: Eric Alperin

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kitchen Confidential for the cocktail profession, Unvarnished is a fly-on-the-wall narrative peek at the joys, pains, and peculiarities of life “behind the stick.”

When it opened a decade ago, the acclaimed Los Angeles speakeasy The Varnish—owned, designed, and managed by award-winning cocktail aficionado Eric Alperin—quickly became the stylish... Read more

The 24-Hour Soup Kitchen

By: Stephen Henderson

Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It was when traveling on assignment in India that journalist Stephen Henderson first learned of soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses of worship (or gurudwaras). After volunteering for a week at the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi—which feeds 20,000 men, women, and children every day—Henderson became curious to research global... Read more

Contagio

By: David Quammen

Narrated by: Sebastián Rosas

Length: 22 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

«Deslumbrante Quammen: desvela lo que nos hace vivir y lo que nos mata con pasión, humor y conocimiento.» Daniel Arjona, El confidencial EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA. Desde hace años, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuestión de tiempo, y su origen,... Read more

El infinito en un junco

By: Irene Vallejo

Narrated by: Elena Silva

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

EL ENSAYO REVELACIÓN DE LA TEMPORADA PREMIO NACIONAL DE ENSAYO 2020 De humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de árboles, de plástico y de luz... Un recorrido por la vida del libro y de quienes lo han salvaguardado durante casi treinta siglos. Premio el Ojo Crítico de Narrativa 2019 Prólogo narrado por la autora Este es un libro sobre... Read more