Essays audiobooks

Nonconformity

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding:... Read more

The Best American Short Stories 2019

By: Anthony Doerr & Heidi Pitlor

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Heidi Pitlor, Scott Shepherd, G...

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of... Read more

Tercios de España. Una infantería legendaria

By: Fernando Martínez Laínez & José María Sánchez d...

Narrated by: Rafael Alcázar

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Para los europeos de su tiempo no hubo sombra de duda: Durante más de ciento cincuenta años, entre 1534 y finales del siglo XVII, los tercios españoles fueron las mejores unidades militares del mundo. Tres siglos después de su desaparición, todavía los especialistas de hoy comparan los tercios de infantería española con las legiones romanas y... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more

Hacia rutas salvajes

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Alberto Santillán

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Por qué un joven que acababa de graduarse decide cortar todos los lazos con su familia y perderse en una región inhóspita? Descúbrelo en este audiolibro En abril de 1992, Chris McCandless, de 24 años, se internó solo y apenas equipado en tierras de Alaska. Había regalado todo su dinero y abandonado su coche, y soñaba con una vida en estado... Read more

Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca

Narrated by: Julian Glover

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Glover, Olivier Award winning actor, also known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robin Campbell.


A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in... Read more

Idiot

By: Laura Clery

Narrated by: Laura Clery

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2020 Audie Award Finalist

From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby and You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein.

Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She... Read more

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Amy Wallace & David Foster Wallace

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep... Read more

Surfacing

By: Kathleen Jamie

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.” —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, “By the Book”... Read more

Never Drive A Hatchback To Austria (And Other Valuable Life Lessons)

By: R.A. Dalkey

Narrated by: R.A. Dalkey

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

If being a grown-up were as simple as holding down a job, buying a reliable car, finding the home of your dreams and living happily ever after, there’d be no need for this true story. But our mid-thirties author’s unorthodox approach and complete failure to accept the world as defined by adults was never going to make it quite so straightforward... Read more

Nouvelle-France

By: Gilles Proulx

Narrated by: Gilles Proulx

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui. C'est pour corriger ces tristes lacunes qu'au-delà des faits de guerre et autres dates... Read more

Sightlines

By: Kathleen Jamie

Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish "byways and hills" to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what,... Read more

Nice Try

By: Josh Gondelman

Narrated by: Josh Gondelman

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman’s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results.Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying—and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic—dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer—is known throughout the industry as one of comedy’s true “nice... Read more

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

By: Mona Eltahawy

Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.

Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their... Read more

Ten Years a Nomad

By: Matthew Kepnes

Narrated by: Ryan Burke

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad. "Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world is unrivaled, and never fails to amaze me." ―Mark... Read more

Tasting Grace

By: Melissa d'Arabian

Narrated by: Melissa d'Arabian

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The winner of The Next Food Network Star season five and New York Times best-selling author of Ten Dollar Dinners shares how God used food to invite her into His love.

It wasn't until Melissa d'Arabian evaluated her relationship with food in light of her relationship with God that she began to appreciate food as not only a gift from him but also... Read more

Титаник

By: Шинейд Фитцгиббон

Narrated by: Василий Духанин & Станислав Иванов

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Титаник", легендарный корабль, воплощенная мечта человечества, вызов, брошенный безбрежной и могучей стихии... Казалось, он – символ эпохи прогресса и процветания. И вот прекрасная мечта в одночасье оборачивается кошмаром. Цепь нелепых совпадений и случайностей приводит к мрачному финалу. С тех пор прошло больше ста лет, прогремели... Read more

Dancing with Bees

By: Brigit Strawbridge Howard

Narrated by: Brigit Strawbridge Howard

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A naturalist’s passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from them Brigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French Revolution than she did about her native trees. And birds. And wildflowers. And bees. The thought stopped her—quite... Read more

Menus that Made History

By: Alex Johnson & Vincent Franklin

Narrated by: Vincent Franklin

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'An absolutely riveting book - reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes - and very hungry indeed.' - Richard Curtis

'This brilliantly conceived and well-researched book is a source of real delight.' - Dr Annie Gray, BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet

'Superbly written, a complete joy to read, and just about the perfect... Read more

حول العالم في 22 يوما

By: محمد المر

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

إذا ما فتحنا ملف المشاهير في عوالم الأدب والفكر والثقافة والشعر والخط العربي واللوحات الفنية والمقتنيات التراثية والفنون بمختلف أشكالها فلن نجد أفضل من الأستاذ "محمد المر" كي نتحدث عنه فلقد وهبه الله قدرةً استثنائية على الخوض في مختلف المجالات والمسك بتلابيبها فهو أشبه بموسوعةٍ متنقلة باهتمامات لاحصرية أغلبها تصبُّ في التاريخ والفنون. في هذا... Read more

Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In)

By: Daniel Jones

Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Will Brill, Michael Crouch, Kevi...

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the Amazon Original series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery

A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s... Read more

The Cider Revival

By: Jason Wilson

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Cider is having a major moment, and The Cider Revival charts its history, resurgence, and a year with the vanguard makers of heritage cider Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition when orchards were destroyed and neglected, cider all... Read more

How To

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try... Read more

My Time Among the Whites

By: Jennine Capo Crucet

Narrated by: Jennine Capo Crucet

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an "accidental" American?an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capo Crucet explores the condition of... Read more