Essays audiobooks

The Songlines

By: Bruce Chatwin

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity's origins. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the... Read more

Raised in Captivity

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, James Urbaniak, Bill Wise, Ed...

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play.... Read more

The Jack Report

By: Albert

Narrated by: Jack

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

London Calling is the independent social and political observation of an observant Londoner.Albert Jack has written 18 books, including four worldwide best-sellers, on subjects ranging between history, politics, religion and war.This collection is Part One in a series of five.'Albert Jack offers a crash-course in skeptical thinking and -... Read more

Burn the Ice

By: Kevin Alexander

Narrated by: Holter Graham & Kevin Alexander

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Inspiring"—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table

James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American dining

Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a... Read more

Hungry

By: Jeff Gordinier

Narrated by: Jeff Gordinier

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
 
“If you want to understand modern restaurant culture, you need to read this book.”—Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums
 
Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but... Read more

Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

By: Nicolas Bérubé

Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Comment décririez-vous la vie d'un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics ? Des repas dans des restaurants à la mode ? Ces gens existent, bien sûr, mais la plupart de ceux qui mènent... Read more

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

By: Gore Vidal & Jay Parini (Editor)

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four... Read more

Tras los pasos de Livingstone

By: Xavier Moret

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Xavier Moret recorre en este libro el África oriental, recordando a su paso a los exploradores que lo hicieron antes que él, cuando el centro de África era, en los mapas occidentales, un gran espacio en blanco. Su ruta parte de Zanzíbar, de donde salieron la mayoría de expediciones al interior del continente, sigue por Tanzania, el lugar donde... Read more

After the Flight 93 Election

By: Michael Anton

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2016, the provocative essay “The Flight 93 Election” galvanized many voters by spotlighting the stakes ahead in November and reproaching complacent elements of the Right. It also drew disparagement from many who judged it too apocalyptic in its assessment of the options facing the electorate.Its author, Michael Anton―writing as... Read more

I Like to Watch

By: Emily Nussbaum

Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more

Wayfinding

By: M. R. O'Connor

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way makes us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to... Read more

One More Croissant for the Road

By: Felicity Cloake

Narrated by: Felicity Cloake

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it’ – DIANA HENRY ‘Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing – this book will get you hooked’ – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km... Read more

Uncultivated

By: Andy Brennan

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here.
 
Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a... Read more

Notes to Self

By: Emilie Pine

Narrated by: Emilie Pine

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide—from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR • “Emilie Pine’s voice is razor-sharp and raw; her story is utterly original yet as familiar as my own breath.”—Glennon Doyle,... Read more

Serious Eater

By: Ed Levine

Narrated by: Ed Levine & Bill Oakley

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"A hilarious and moving story of unconventional entrepreneurialism, passion, and guts." --Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder of Shake Shack; Author of Setting the Table

Original recipes by J. Kenji López-Alt of The Food Lab and Stella Parks of BraveTart

James Beard Award-winning founder of Serious Eats Ed Levine finally... Read more

The Way Home

By: Mark Boyle

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.The Way Home is a... Read more

Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire

By: Thomas Lin

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bringing together the best and most interesting science stories appearing in Quanta Magazine over the past five years, Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire reports on some of the greatest scientific minds as they test the limits of human knowledge. It communicates science by taking it seriously, wrestling with difficult concepts, and clearly... Read more

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

By: Anne Boyer

Narrated by: Sky Goodden

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs, time, Kansas City, and other impossible questions.  Read more

The Whole Okra

By: Chris Smith

Narrated by: Chris Smith

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

With recipes for gumbos and stews, plus okra pickles, tofu, marshmallow, paper, and more Chris Smith’s first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra at a greasy-spoon diner. Despite that dismal introduction, Smith developed a fascination with okra, and as he researched the plant and began to experiment with it in his own... Read more

The Gentle Art of Tramping

By: Stephen Graham

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Gentle Art of Tramping by Stephen Graham, read by Mike Grady.

'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys

First published in 1926, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as then. Tramping is an approach: to nature, to humankind, to nations, to beauty, to life itself. This lost classic is a breath of fresh air for... Read more

Bad féministe

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Clotilde Seille

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Derrière ce titre ironique, Roxane Gay développe une réflexion révolutionnaire et bienvenue sur l'état actuel du féminisme. Lassée des prises de position parfois trop clivantes de certaines organisations féministes, elle rappelle que la défense de l'égalité des sexes ne dispense pas d'assumer ses contradictions. On peut aimer la télé-réalité, se... Read more

Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being

By: Amy Fung

Narrated by: Amy Fung

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian.Before I Was a Critic I Was a... Read more

Definitely Hispanic

By: LeJuan James

Narrated by: LeJuan James

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin’s celebration of Latinidad and Fresh Off the Boat’s situational humor, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective and witty essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James about growing up Hispanic in the US.

Social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James loves being... Read more

Where the Lost Dogs Go

By: Susannah Charleson

Narrated by: Susannah Charleson

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Susannah Charleson comes an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunion.One in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope for good news. But amid these grim statistics, countless... Read more