Essays audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Quarry Fox

By: Leslie T. Sharpe

Narrated by: Leslie T. Sharpe

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Quarry Fox, Leslie T. Sharpe chronicles the seasons and the vibrant wildlife of a landscape she cherishes, offering her keen insights in an engaging narrative that celebrates the splendor of the natural world. From crafty foxes and hibernating bears to vulnerable monarch butterflies, The Quarry Fox explores the creatures of the Great... Read more

Nature beyond Solitude

By: John Seibert Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well.In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological... Read more

Война Алой и Белой розы. Краткая история

By: Дэвит Граммитт

Narrated by: Михаил Росляков

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Книга посвящена одной из самых драматичных страниц в истории Англии — Войне Алой и Белой розы, серии династических вооруженных конфликтов 1455–1485 годов, развернувшихся в ходе борьбы за власть между двумя ветвями династии Плантагенетов — Ланкастеров и Йорков — и завершившихся победой Генриха Тюдора из боковой ветви Ланкастеров, основателя... Read more

Rebel Chef

By: Dominique Crenn & Emma Brockes

Narrated by: Hope Newhouse

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn

By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and everything she knew to move to San Francisco, where... Read more

The Gift and the Curse "the Jeff Jackson Story"

By: Jeff Jackson

Narrated by: Jeff Jackson

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

(Author) Jeff Jackson former high school "GATORADE" Player Of The Year and Philadelphia Phillies former #1 Draft Pick takes you on a journey deep into his life... He reveals his truth about his professional baseball career as well as his experience with the Philadelphia Phillies and shares what really happened... For the first time, he divulges... Read more

French Like Moi

By: Scott Dominic Carpenter

Narrated by: Scott Dominic Carpenter

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

FRENCH OR FAUX?When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted, where even... Read more

Dans la tête des animaux

By: François Y. Doré

Narrated by: Claude Despins

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

À quoi pense un chat en guettant les oiseaux ? Un éléphant marchant dans la savane ? Un chimpanzé devant un miroir ? Si les animaux ne peuvent nous parler, les récentes recherches démontrent qu’ils ont tout de même une activité mentale intense. En fait, l’animal a des habiletés cognitives qui lui permettent de s’adapter et de s’ajuster à... Read more