Essays audiobooks

Leave Only Footprints

By: Conor Knighton

Narrated by: Conor Knighton

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe

From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and... Read more

I Don't Want to Die Poor

By: Michael Arceneaux

Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called “a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating,” comes a wry and insightful essay collection that explores the financial and emotional cost of chasing... Read more

Final Draft

By: David Carr & Jill Rooney Carr

Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Christopher Ryan Grant & Jill...

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr’s writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more.

Throughout his 25-year journalistic career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and justice, and his remarkable compassion and... Read more

안녕, 나의 순정

By: 이영희

Narrated by: Yeong-Eun Kim

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

순정만화를 읽던 소녀는 어른이 되었고 순정만화는 추억이 되었습니다. 1980년대부터 2000년대 초, 대한민국 순정만화 전성기를 한 권으로 추억할 수 있는 『안녕, 나의 순정』이 출간되었다. 신일숙, 황미나, 김혜린, 이빈, 한승원, 이은혜, 한혜연, 박희정, 강경옥, 유시진, 문흥미, 이미라, 나예리, 천계영, 박은아까지. 이름만 들어도 우리를 설레게 만드는 대표 작가 15인의 만화에 담긴 이영희 작가의 추억을 함께 따라가 보자. 학창시절 친구들과 『르네상스』, 『하이센스』, 『댕기』, 『윙크』, 『이슈』 같은 만화잡지를 모아 돌려보던 기억부터 매일 학교 앞 지하상가 만화방에 들러 와플을 사 먹으며 아끼는... Read more

Las reinas de África

By: Cristina Morató

Narrated by: Elisa Beuter

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Semblanzas, anécdotas e historias de las principales viajeras que llegaron a África en los siglos XIX y XX. Cristina Morató viajó por primera vez a África en 1983 y desde entonces ha recorrido varios países de este continente atraída por sus gentes y la grandeza de sus paisajes. Al igual que ella un buen número de extraordinarias viajeras y... Read more

Sensuous Knowledge

By: Minna Salami

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.

Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore... Read more

Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories

By: Fanny Singer

Narrated by: Fanny Singer & Alice Waters

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.

In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother--and herself--Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food,... Read more

FoodWISE

By: Gigi Berardi

Narrated by: Julie Slater

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive guide for food lovers on how to make the right food choices amidst a sea of ever-changing information, and an invitation to return to the joys of garden and kitchen

We live in a culture awash with advice on nutrition and eating. Who do we believe? And what does it really mean to eat healthy? Food Wise is for anyone who has felt... Read more

Hitching for Hope

By: Ruairí McKiernan

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern travel tale—part personal pilgrimage, part political quest—that captures the power of human resilience "McKiernan sticks his thumb out, and somehow a healthy dose of humanity manages to roll up alongside him. . . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."—Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times... Read more

One Hundred Daffodils

By: Rebecca Winn

Narrated by: Rebecca Winn

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"When women share the truth about life and loss . . . hope is restored" in this enlightening and comforting memoir about purpose, personal growth, and nature's ability to heal (Sarah Ban Breathnach).
"There is so much life in the garden. That is why I come. Life that is gentle, self-supporting, and beautiful. Continuous in its cycles, grounded,... Read more

Lives of Houses

By: Kate Kennedy & Hermione Lee

Narrated by: Kate Kennedy, Lisa Coleman, Phyllida Nash, Herm...

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee celebrates our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWith additional narration by Lisa Coleman, Phyllida Nash, and Richard PryalFeatures contributions by notable writers such as UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes,... Read more

Your Life Is a Life of Hope!

By: Lord Birthday

Narrated by: Matthew Frow

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes life worth living? If you ask Lord Birthday, the answer is visor hats. And lighthouses. And the stranger who gave him a half-eaten panini on the bus the other day.

In Your Life Is a Life of Hope!, the Internet’s favorite mustachioed king presents a series of short, illustrated essays in which he argues for hope by way of absurdity and... Read more

Constellations

By: Sinéad Gleeson

Narrated by: Sinéad Gleeson

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 Irish bestseller and winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, winner of the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, named Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Observer, Image, Irish Times, New Statesman, and Irish Independent, Sinéad Gleeson’s essays chronicle—in crystalline, tender, powerful prose—life in a... Read more

Lean Out

By: Tara Henley

Narrated by: Tara Henley

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Travel to the land of Couldn't Be More Timely."--Margaret Atwood on Lean Out, in the West End Phoenix

"What begins as one woman's critique of our culture of overwork and productivity ultimately becomes an investigation into our most urgent problems: vast inequality, loneliness, economic precarity, and isolation from... Read more

Had I Known

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker).

A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an... Read more

Thailand - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Roger Jones

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For many outsiders, Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting—a view largely formed by Hollywood films like The King and I. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today, it is a representative democracy with a populist... Read more

This Ain’t No Holiday Inn

By: James Lough

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Robertson Dean...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone.This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the... Read more

Infinite Variety

By: Amit Varma

Narrated by: Amit Varma

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

India may seem sexually repressed and prudish – but in the past, we just been just the opposite. In episode 10 of The Book Club, Amit Varma discusses 'Infinite Variety', Madhavi Menon's eye-opening history of desire in India. Read more

Im Grunde gut - Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Rutger Bregman

Narrated by: Julian Mehne

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Historiker und Journalist Rutger Bregman setzt sich in seinem neuen Buch mit dem Wesen des Menschen auseinander. Anders als in der westlichen Denktradition angenommen ist der Mensch seinen Thesen nach nicht böse, sondern im Gegenteil: von Grund auf gut. Und geht man von dieser Prämisse aus, ist es möglich, die Welt und den Menschen in ihr... Read more

Netherlands - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide To Customs & Culture

By: Sheryl Buckland

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking listeners beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and tulips, this pocket-sized guide helps visitors understand the complex layers of identity in this small, densely populated country on Europe's northwestern seaboard. With roots as a maritime nation that built a network for transportation, defense, and trade, the Netherlands... Read more

Romania - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Debbie Stowe

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A land of mountains, hills, and fertile plains, Romania is a tourist destination waiting to be discovered. It is a rich and complex country: a place whose cities are home to beautiful parks and vibrant cultural scenes and whose people welcome guests warmly into their homes, sharing the best of whatever they have and partying into the night,... Read more

Pretty Bitches

By: Lizzie Skurnick

Narrated by: Andrea Lopez, Shayna Small, Carolyne Leys, Kase...

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world.

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications... Read more

The Eye You See With

By: Robert Stone & Madison Smartt Bell

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive collection of nonfiction—from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing—from the “legend of American letters” (Vanity Fair)

Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a visionary whose award-winning novels—including Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate—earned him comparisons to literary... Read more

Happísland

By: Cédric H. Roserens

Narrated by: Angus Freathy

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Un avant-goût d'Islande avec un arrière-goût de requin fermenté. Une petite introduction sans prétention à la psyché islandaise, centrée sur Reykjavík. L'espion helvétique Hans-Ueli Stauffacher est envoyé un an en Islande pour comprendre pourquoi les Islandais sont plus heureux que les Suisses... Read more