Essays audiobooks

Dictionary of the Undoing

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass & John Freeman

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in... Read more

London Journal

By: James Boswell

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship. This account, told with much detail and candor, was one of the various journals written by Boswell, but it is the... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Jack Lohman

Narrated by: Jack Lohman

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world.

The challenge to transform museums is unapologetically real and complicated. But everything we learn about reconciliation, science and biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability gives us the confidence and... Read more

Océano África

By: Xavier Aldekoa

Narrated by: David Brau

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es una historia de carreteras de tierra, de viajes en autobuses destartalados y de platos de mijo compartidos. También de las lágrimas de un veterano de guerra en Sudán del Sur, de la negociación de una dote en una aldea sudafricana y del hambre desesperada de los nómadas del Cuerno de África. Desde hace más de una década, Xavier Aldekoa... Read more

Genius and Ink

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the... Read more

Corazón de Ulises

By: Javier Reverte

Narrated by: Jordi Salas

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

En Corazón de Ulises, acompañamos a Javier Reverte en su viaje por Grecia, Turquía y Egipto: un viaje con la cultura a cuestas. Corazón de Ulises es un libro que, desde su primera edición, ha sido considerado un clásico de la literatura de viajes de nuestro país. Leído y estudiado en las universidades y recomendado también en numerosas guías,... Read more

La vida en cuatro letras

By: Carlos López-Otín

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Partiendo de un momento extraordinariamente difícil de la vida del autor, este audiolibro empieza con una pregunta fascinante: ¿llevamos la felicidad escrita en nuestros genes? Tomando esta pregunta como hilo conductor a lo largo de catorce capítulos, López-Otín nos presenta los momentos estelares de la historia de la vida sobre la Tierra, nos... Read more

It All Adds Up

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in the New York Times, Esquire, and the New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across topics as various as the talents of President Roosevelt, the economic narrative of Jay Gatsby, and... Read more

Wherever You Go

By: Daniel Houghton

Narrated by: Kyle Tait, James Langton, Corey Brill, Fred San...

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former CEO of renowned travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, a look at how travel can transform not only the traveler, but also the world.

Imagine your job was to travel the world, then report back on how everyone else should do it. That’s what happened to Daniel Houghton when, fresh out of Western Kentucky University, he took the helm... Read more

Seelensegeln

By: Désirée Meier

Narrated by: Elias Meier & Christine Dietrich

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Désirée und Elias kündigen ihre gut bezahlten, sicheren Jobs und entscheiden sich für ein alternatives Leben außerhalb der durchorganisierten Zivilisation. Eine Segelyacht ist ab sofort ihr Zuhause. Als blutige Anfänger wagen sie sich ins Abenteuer "Meer". Schnell stellen sie fest, dass intensive, existentielle Naturerfahrungen und zutiefst... Read more

El río sin orillas

By: Juan José Saer

Narrated by: Gustavo Bonfigli

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La escritura de Juan José Saer ha sido reconocida por la crítica especializada como una de las más valiosas y renovadoras en el ámbito de la lengua española contemporánea. Para Saer, narrar, antes que nada, es delimitar un espacio y una voz. Con este libro vuelve al lugar donde sitúa su mundo narrativo: el litoral. En El río sin orillas, la... Read more

Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing their world

By: Snigdha Poonam

Narrated by: Richa Syal

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 CROSSWORD JURY AWARD FOR NON FICTION*

More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five and the country is set to have the youngest population in the world by 2021. But India's millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West.

In a world that's marked by unprecedented connectivity and... Read more

Happy to Be Here

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Happy to be Here" is Berg's third collection of Facebook posts. Her first, "Make Someone Happy," was written in response to her many fans' requests that she put her posts together in a book that they could take on the plane, to the beach, or give to others. The book did indeed make people happy and so she followed up with a second book, "Still... Read more

Tatalog

By: Harish Bhatt

Narrated by: Arish Bhiwandiwala

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Tatalog presents eight riveting and hitherto untold stories about the strategic and operational challenges that TATA companies have faced over the past two decades and the forward thinking and determination that have raised the brand to new heights. From Tata Indica, the first completely Indian car; to the jewellery brand Tanishq; and... Read more

Eleven Ways to Love Part 11: The Smartphone Freed Me

By: Nadika Nadja

Narrated by: Swasti Shree Sharma

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of eleven remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image... Read more

Equipaje de mano: Crónicas de viaje

By: Juan Pablo Meneses

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Un viaje por los Estados Unidos buscando un pueblo cercano a Tampa donde se reúnen muchos de los hombres más raros de Norteamérica, freaks que trabajan en circos divirtiendo al público con sus deformidades; un recorrido por España en busca de Aguaviva, un pueblo español que ha sido repoblado con argentinos cesantes; un vuelo a Iquitos, en la... Read more

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

By: Eric Newby

Narrated by: James Bryce

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent... Read more

Slowly Down the Ganges

By: Eric Newby

Narrated by: James Bryce

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history. On his forty-forth birthday,... Read more

NoirEs sous surveillance

By: Robyn Maynard

Narrated by: Mireille Métellus

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Prix des Libraires du Québec 2019 | Essai La vérité a souvent un goût amer. Nous ne savons comment accepter nos histoires. Faut-il s’en tenir aux faits et dire la vérité ? Cet ouvrage monumental si richement documenté est précieux, il nous tire de l’oubli et du silence. Que savons-nous de l’esclavage au Canada ? Que savons-nous de la répression... Read more

Essays One

By: Lydia Davis

Length: TBA

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 Book of Eating

By: Adam Platt

Narrated by: Adam Platt

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics.As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung... Read more

La aventura de los romanos en Hispania

By: Juan Antonio Cebrián

Narrated by: Por confirmar

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Año 218 a.C., dos legiones romanas bajo el mando de Cneo Escipión desembarcan por sorpresa en la península Ibérica. Tienen como objetivo cortar las vías de suministro de los cartagineses, una estrategia más en el trascurso de la Segunda Guerra Púnica. Será el primer movimiento de un largo proceso que culminará con la invasión y colonización de... Read more

Kölner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ach war das ein Leben in Köln! Des Abends bettete man sich zur Ruh und wenn man sich am nächsten Tage erhob, fand man alles aufs Vortrefflichste gerichtet. So ein schönes Leben hatten die Kölner früher also, als es die wundersamen Heinzelmännchen noch gab und diese kleinen Wesen den Kölnern ihre harte tagtägliche Arbeit abnahmen. Warum dies... Read more

The Apprentice

By: Jacques Pépin

Narrated by: Jacques Pépin & Michel Chevalier

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called ""the best chef in America"" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award<en&winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain.
We see young Jacques as... Read more