Essays audiobooks
Theft by Finding
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot
An NPR Best Book of 2017An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads Choice Awards nominee
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.
For... Read more
Sunshine State
By: Sarah Gerard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida’s gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival—physical, emotional, environmental—through a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
View audiobookDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
New York Times Best Seller
A Skimm Reads Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... Read more
Mincemeat
By: Leonardo Lucarelli
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen.
In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part of the landscape. In reality, the restaurant... Read more
Moranifesto
By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Joanna Neary
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose... Read more
View audiobookThe Princess Diarist
By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Carrie Fisher & Billie Lourd
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
2018 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *New York Times Bestseller *
When Carrie Fisher recently... Read more
Buffering
By: Hannah Hart
Narrated by: Hannah Hart & Judy Young
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the... Read more
View audiobookWhere Am I Now?
By: Mara Wilson
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads"
“Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City
Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly
A... Read more
You'll Grow Out of It
By: Jessi Klein
Narrated by: Jessi Klein
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman.
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.
In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers - through an... Read more
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more
The Oregon Trail
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Rinker Buck
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of... Read more
View audiobookDreaming of Ramadi in Detroit
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Narrated by: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction
This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha... Read more
Joker and Philosophy
By: Jason T. Eberl, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio & Geo...
Narrated by: Danny Montooth
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. With his enigmatic motivations, infectious irreverence, and selfless devotion to evil, Joker never fails to provoke a host of philosophical questions.
Bringing together essays by a diverse panel of acclaimed scholars and... Read more
The Adventure Gap
By: James Edward Mills
Narrated by: Mirron Willis & James Edward Mills
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Features a new "where are they now" section, with updates about lives of expedition's original climbers and updated resources based on the "Anti-Racism in the Outdoors" (ARITO) guide.
Outdoor journalist James Edward Mills's book, The Adventure Gap, is a groundbreaking volume that is equal parts adventure story, history, and inspiration as it... Read more
The Conspiracy against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti
Narrated by: Jonathan Padgett
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Notes from an Island
By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
From a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal that includes sketches from her romantic partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä.
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for... Read more
Lifeform
By: Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Vanessa Bayer & W...
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human... Read more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
By: Bill McKibben & Jaime Green
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens, Stephen Graybill, Lee Osorio & ...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Essays 2024
By: Wesley Morris & Kim Dana Kupperman
Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Cary Hite, Jeanette Illidge, Robe...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.“Imparting some piece of yourself—any part—is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation,” writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable, the essayists in this volume use... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
By: Padma Lakshmi & Jaya Saxena
Narrated by: Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary ...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we... Read more
View audiobookThe Science of Superwomen
By: Mark Brake
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrate the rise of superwomen and discover the science behind the abilities of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Catwoman, and more!
Superhero fiction has been with us for almost a century; high-octane tales crammed with concepts and contrasting themes, from superpowers and the post-human, to masked vigilantes and immortality. In that... Read more
Pleasure (ungekürzt)
By: Jovana Reisinger
Narrated by: Jovana Reisinger
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Was macht eigentlich das Unterschichtskind auf dem Roten Teppich?", fragt eine Besucherin auf dem Münchner Filmfest in meine Richtung. Ja, was macht sie da? Sie ist auf einer Mission. Die Tussi suggeriert durch ihre Erscheinung ein grenzüberschreitendes Begehren. Es geht um Kitsch, Glamour, Trash, es geht um Camp. Es geht um Körper, Identitäten.... Read more
View audiobookHow to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).
Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill... Read more