Essays audiobooks

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

On Nostalgia

By: David Berry

Narrated by: Adam Daniel Mezei

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis... Read more

Little Miss Little Compton

By: Arden Myrin

Narrated by: Arden Myrin

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an unconventional upbringing.

Arden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. Arden's parents did one... Read more

Earth Almanac

By: Ted Williams

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted nature writer Ted Williams invites readers along on a year-long immersion in the wild and fleeting moments of the natural world, from winter candy and spring quackers to summer’s scarlet farewell and autumn reveilles. This beautifully crafted collection of short, seasonal essays combines in-depth information with evocative descriptions of... Read more

The Dog Who Healed a Family

By: Jo Coudert

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this charming collection of nineteen stories, you can't help but fall in love with the unlucky fawn who is saved by a nursing home, the troublesome rabbit who warms her way into a new family and the good (German) shepherd who comforts the sick. These are stories of hope, humor, triumph, loyalty, compassion, life and even death—but most of... Read more

Nala's World

By: Dean Nicholson

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the heartwarming true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his rescue cat, Nala, as they adventure together on a bike journey around the world -- from the Instagram phenomenon @1bike1world.

When 30-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our... Read more

Be More Sausage

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Matt Whyman

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A love letter to the small but mighty dachshund or, as it’s more affectionally known, the Sausage Dog. This book – almost as adorable as its namesake – proves that sausage dogs are not just sweet, soft and a little bit silly to look at. They can be an example to us all. Despite having the... 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

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

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

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

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

World of Wonders

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year
A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction
A Southern Book Prize Finalist
An NPR Best Book of 2020
An Esquire Best Book of 2020
A BookPage Best Book of 2020
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020
An Indie Next Pick, September 2019
A Publishers Weekly "Big Indie... 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

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

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

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