Essays audiobooks

Selma Lagerlöf

By: Vivi Edström

Narrated by: Anja Cederved Schmidt

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Selma Lagerlöf hade hunnit bli 33 år när hon debuterade med "Gösta Berlings Saga", och efter det levde hon sitt liv som en mycket produktiv författare som skrev flertalet välkända romaner och noveller. Idag räknas Lagerlöf som en av Sveriges främsta författare någonsin. Men vem var hon egentligen? Och vilka uppoffringar tvingades hon att göra... Read more

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

By: Jeffrey Geri & Marian Lebor

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This edition provides important insights for listeners, revealing what to expect and how to behave, how to avoid misunderstandings, and how to form good social and business relationships when on visit to Israel. While Israel is a modern and largely secular country, it is one steeped in biblical history—a place where religion still plays an... Read more

Here for It

By: R. Eric Thomas

Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the creator of Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.

“Pop culture–obsessed, Sedaris-level... Read more

Suite Italiana

By: Javier Reverte

Narrated by: Jordi Salas

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro sobre libros, viaje y paisaje, a medio camino entre el diario y el ensayo literario, bañado por la maravillosa luz del Mediterráneo italiano. En este nuevo relato viajero, el escritor Javier Reverte ha seguido un camino que nos lleva a las ciudades de Venecia y Trieste y que concluye con un recorrido por la isla de Sicilia. Y no sólo... Read more

The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

By: Nora Samaran

Narrated by: Nora Samaran

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As Nora Samaran writes, "violence is nurturance turned backwards." In its place, she proposes "nurturance culture" as the opposite of rape culture, suggesting that models of care and accountability — different from "call-outs" — can move communities toward dismantling systems of dominance and oppression.This audiobook contains the viral 2016... Read more

Too Much and Not the Mood

By: Durga Chew-Bose

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice.



On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers,... Read more

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

By: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrated by: Daniel M. Lavery

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of our smartest, most inventive humor writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation.” —Jordy Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes a hilarious and... Read more

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

By: Russel Maddicks

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Squeezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, volunteers, and increasing numbers of US retirees... Read more

Censorship Now!!

By: Ian F. Svenonius

Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ian F. Svenonius’s new collection of sixteen essays and stories, entitled Censorship Now!!, is reorganizing people’s ideas about censorship; Ikea; documentary film-making; the Berlin Wall; the film Heathers; the twist; the frug; the mashed potato; shaving one’s body; Apple, Inc.; Nordic functionalism; the supposed benevolence of the Wikipedia;... Read more

Memoria o caos

By: Valentí Puig

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

En un mundo en el que las modas son la esencia de todo, las costumbres quedan relegadas a convertirse en algo perecedero. El escritor y articulista Valentí Puig aborda en este ensayo una lúcida reflexión sobre cómo la aceleración del tiempo acorta nuestra memoria y, en consecuencia, nos desliga irremediablemente de las formas del pasado. «Sin... Read more

A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter

By: Julian Norton

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Yorkshire Vet embarks on this newest adventure treating the animals and their assorted owners across the Yorkshire Dales.

A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter follows Julian's veterinary stories and amusing anecdotes through his work as a mixed practice vet in North Yorkshire.

Julian has spent over twenty years working in Thirsk, literally... Read more

Name Drop

By: Ross Mathews

Narrated by: Ross Mathews

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ross Mathews, the nationally bestselling author of Man Up!, judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and alum of Chelsea Lately, comes “a delightful mix of sweet and sour celebrity experiences” (Shelf Awareness) in this hilarious and irreverent collection of essays.

Pretend it’s happy hour and you and I are sitting at the bar. I look amazing and, I... Read more

Destination Dachshund: A Travel Memoir

By: Lisa Fleetwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Macfie

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With teenage children and in-laws in tow, the Fleetwood family embark on their 3 month family vacation just days after the tragic loss of their beloved dachshund, Coco. When two miniature dachshunds in smart winter coats are spotted in Moscow, it’s game on! A riotous, often hilarious dachshund spotting competition for the lovable, long-bodied... Read more

Don't Get Too Excited

By: Jen Epstein

Narrated by: Jen Epstein

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jen Epstein was born a worrier. As a child she worried her uvula would break off and she would swallow it and choke to death. Then she worried high voltage wires would get her. Eventually she was diagnosed with learning disabilities and later, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Smart but challenged, Jen navigates two years in Israel as a high school... Read more

My Shorts

By: Brian Kagan

Narrated by: Brian Kagan

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

You don’t have to be Jewish to love My Shorts. But it doesn’t hurt!Think David Sedaris meets Nora Efron meets Ralph from The Christmas Story.An uproarious collection of true stories featuring a chubby Cheetos-loving Jewish middle child with overactive sweat glands and an abundant imagination. His tendency towards mischief and twisting the truth... Read more

Diarios, ensayos, crónicas: la cocina de la escritura

By: José Donoso

Narrated by: Ricardo Alanis

Length: 26 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Los diarios de José Donoso han sido, por años, fuente de especulaciones y comentarios acerca de su carácter polémico y controversial. Este libro rescata una importante sección de esos diarios olvidados, y nos enfrenta como lectores a algunos de los secretos y obsesiones más profundos del gran narrador chileno. Los recuerdos de la infancia, la... Read more

Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

Narrated by: Maggie Nelson

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color …Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human—via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue. This new edition celebrates Maggie... Read more

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby & Adam Verner

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil... Read more

Gabby

By: Barby Keel

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving, heartfelt true story that celebrates the way animals and humans rescue one another . . .

Baby seagulls, mischievous ferrets, strutting peacocks . . . in the decades that Barby Keel has run her animal sanctuary in the English countryside, she has seen all manner of creatures. Thousands of cats and dogs have come through her doors and,... Read more

Colonize This!

By: Bushra Rehman & Daisy Hernández

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari, Sharmila Devar, Kyla Garcia, A...

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the... Read more

Underqualified Advice

By: Drew Hayes

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is Drew Hayes, and for the past six years I've made my living as a writer. In that time, I've published twenty books, written hundreds of thousands of words, and made countless mistakes—most of which I like to think I've learned from.



Underqualified Advice (and Other Amusing Diversions) is my attempt to compile those lessons and share... Read more

Cómo construir una barca

By: Jonathan Gornall

Narrated by: Oscar Barberán

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Una oda a la importancia de los trabajos artesanos en el siglo XXI, una celebración del mar, un emotivo relato sobre la relación padre-hija. Cómo construir una barca es la historia de un hombre moderno y sin ninguna habilidad destacable que, inspirado por su amor al mar y todo lo que éste le ha enseñado, se propone construir una barca de madera... Read more

The Frozen River

By: James Crowden

Narrated by: James Crowden

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

‘A tour de force of luminous writing.’ Mark Cocker, Spectator ‘In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living... Read more

Fight of the Century

By: Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: an All Star Cast

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.

On January 19, 1920, a small group of... Read more