Essays audiobooks

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

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

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

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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

Father-ish

By: Clint Edwards

Narrated by: Clint Edwards

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In his third book, Clint Edwards shares honest, relatable and unbearably funny tales of botching birthdays and holidays as a father of three.

Clint Edwards, author of the hit book I'm Sorry...Love Your Husband, and the follow up Silence is a Scary Sound, is back with a third collection of essays chronicling honest tales of struggling to raise... Read more

Oscura globalización

By: Bruno Rivas Frías

Narrated by: Hernán Jaimes

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

¿El crimen también se globaliza? La pregunta que en tiempos actuales parece una afirmación es el punto de partida de esta publicación. Oscura globalización. Ensayos sobre el crimen como fenómeno mundial se compone de siete artículos con temas tan actuales como las representaciones de las organizaciones criminales en las industrias del... Read more

Die Überraschung

By: Wolf Lotter

Narrated by: Wolf Lotter & Ralf Herms

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

+rosebud no.8 – Die Überraschung ist die finale Ausgabe von +rosebud magazine. Das bibliophil gestaltete und produzierte Buch markiert den Abschluss einer Serie, deren Leitmotiv seit mehr als 20 Jahren, abseits von Genregrenzen, die Möglichkeiten des Mediums Papier auslotet und experimentell weiterentwickelt. Zentraler Bestandteil des Buches ist... Read more

Wake Up

By: Piers Morgan

Narrated by: Piers Morgan

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It’s time we get back to common sense. It’s time to cancel the cancel culture. It’s time to Wake Up. ... Read more

One Hundred Dogs and Counting

By: Cara Sue Achterberg

Narrated by: Cara Sue Achterberg

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After nearly a year struggling to find a home for a particular foster dog, Cara begins to wonder how the story ends—when will all the dogs be saved? Even after the one-hundredth foster dog passes through Cara’s home, the stream of homeless dogs appears endless. Seized by the need to act, Cara grabs her best friend, fills a van with donations,... Read more

Fermentation as Metaphor

By: Sandor Ellix Katz

Narrated by: Sandor Ellix Katz

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Sandor Katz--an "unlikely rock star of the American food scene" (New York Times) with over 500,000 books sold--gets personal about the deeper meaning of fermentation. In 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world, a runaway bestseller, and a James... Read more

The Wind in the Willows - Abridged

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Patrick Wymark

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

Bland Fanatics

By: Pankaj Mishra

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of... Read more

Baggage

By: Jeremy Hance

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning journalist’s eco-adventures across the globe with his three traveling companions: his fiancée, his OCD, and his chronic anxiety—a hilarious, wild jaunt that will inspire travelers, environmentalists, and anyone with mental illness.
Most travel narratives are written by superb travelers: people who crave adventure, laugh in the... Read more

Letters of Note: Cats

By: author

Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, ...

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, Anne Frank, Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Taylor, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections

Florence Nightingale sends care instructions to the woman who has just adopted her angora tomcat Mr. White. T. S. Eliot... Read more

The Fragile Earth

By: David Remnick & Henry Finder

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman & Cat Gould

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James... Read more

American Cheese

By: Joe Berkowitz

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese.
“Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious, American Cheese goes far beyond the plastic yellow slices... Read more

A Perfect 10

By: Heather Land

Narrated by: Heather Land

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of I Ain’t Doin’ It and popular comedian Heather Land returns with a collection of laugh-out-loud, hilarious, and unfiltered essays that explore the funny and inspirational moments in everyday life—perfect for fans of Rachel Hollis’s Girl, Wash Your Face.

A popular social media comedian, Heather Land’s irresistible Southern charm has... Read more

Every Breath You Take

By: Mark Broomfield

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But even though we breathe in and out every few seconds, few of us really know what’s in the air all around us. In Every Breath You Take, air-quality specialist-and full-time breather-Dr. Mark Broomfield connects the dots from the... Read more

Why Didn't We Riot?

By: Issac J. Bailey

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump’s America. South Carolina–based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics—from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort—which have... Read more

Mantel Pieces

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd & Hilary Mantel - introduction

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training... Read more

Are You Kidding Me?!

By: Lesley Crewe

Narrated by: Lesley Crewe

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest newspaper columns are collected in one place.Not merely razor sharp, Crewe’s wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the humiliations of breast pumping to the indignities of aging, from the frantic excess of holiday preparations to the homey... Read more