Essays audiobooks

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers—Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father—“Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Tóibín’s... Read more

In This Light

By: Archbishop Justin Welby

Narrated by: Thomas McGairl & Tanya Chainey

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What a beautiful, genuine, moving book. Reminds us of what's important in life. Dip into this, and get strength for the day. For when you can feel the darkness, use this book as light.Jeremy Vine Journalist and Author A time for reflectionChristmas should be a time of peace, togetherness and celebration; yet it can leave all too many of us... Read more

Reporting Pakistan

By: Meena Menon

Narrated by: Mary Joseph

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Meena Menon was The Hindu's correspondent in Islamabad till she was expelled by the Pakistani authorities in May 2014. In spite of her truncated stay, and the restrictions placed on her movements, Menon managed to write on a range of subjects covering swathes of life in Islamabad. She spoke to people from the persecuted Ahmadi... Read more

India's Legal System

By: Fali S. Nariman

Narrated by: Sumit Kaul

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive and comprehensive view of India’s legal process and its key issuesIndia has the second-largest legal profession in the world, but the systemic delays and chronic impediments of its judicial system inspire little confidence in the common person. In India’s Legal System, renowned constitutional expert and senior Supreme Court lawyer... Read more

Well-Read Black Girl

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of... Read more

Problemzonen - Über das Leben, die Sehnsucht und die Liebe danach (Autorinnenlesung) - Abridged

By: Ildikó von Kürthy

Narrated by: Ildikó von Kürthy

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sehnsucht und Schokolade Liebe und ihr Ende, Freundschaft, Feindschaft, Elternschaft und nackte Oberarme. Problemzonen versammelt die besten Brigitte-Kolumnen von Ildikó von Kürthy. Radikal subjektive Texte, todernst und lebendig, amüsant, scharfsinnig, neurotisch und dramatisch - ein Reiseführer in die Krisengebiete des Alltags, ein Hörbuch zum... Read more

Hater

By: John Semley

Narrated by: John Semley

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely manifesto urging us to think critically, form opinions, and then argue them with gusto.

Hater begins from a simple premise: that it's good to hate things. Not people or groups or benign belief systems, but things. More to the point, it's good to hate the things everyone seems to like.
    Scan the click-baiting headlines of your favorite... Read more

American Tantrum

By: Anthony Atamanuik

Narrated by: Anthony Atamanuik, Neil Casey, Kathy Griffin, T...

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In American Tantrum, the star of Comedy Central’s acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and releases Donald J. Trump’s presidential archives. The result is a devastatingly hilarious audiobook that gets closer to truth than any nonfiction account, voiced by the author, Anthony Atamanuik, with guests Neil Casey, Kathy Griffin, Tom Arnold,... Read more

Forever Nerdy

By: Brian Posehn

Narrated by: Brian Posehn & Patton Oswalt

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first memoir by beloved comedian, actor, and writer Brian Posehn, hilariously detailing what it's like to grow up as and remain a nerd, with a foreword by Patton Oswalt

Brian Posehn is a successful and instantly recognizable comedian, actor, and writer. He also happens to be a giant nerd. That's partly because he's been obsessed with such... Read more

Cheddar Gorge

By: John Squire

Narrated by: Robert Portal

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Where can you read about a monstrous cheese big enough to hold a girl of 13 inside? Or that the invention of the bicycle directly, and poorly, impacted sales of cheddar? Or that some of the first cheese makers hid gold coins inside their wheels of dairy as a sales tool? Brethren, the writer calls you this... Read more

Impeachment

By: Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker & Jef...

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Four experts on the American presidency examine the first three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.

Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the... Read more

Johnathan Thurston

By: Johnathan Thurston

Narrated by: James Phelps

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling autobiography of a league legend.
Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2003, to State of Origin... Read more

Liberación animal

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la Biblia de quienes luchan por los derechos de los animales, con prólogo de Yuval Harari . Este revolucionario libro, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro, inspiró, desde su publicación original en 1975, un movimiento mundial de defensa de los derechos de los animales que aspira a transformar nuestra actitud hacia ellos y... Read more

My Squirrel Days

By: Ellie Kemper

Narrated by: Ellie Kemper

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and host of The Great American Baking Show Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman... Read more

The Reckonings

By: Lacy M. Johnson

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.

In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a... Read more

Interior States

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction

"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection."
--Lorrie Moore

A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity:... Read more

Why Baseball Matters

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital... Read more

Frankfurter Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann & Katharina Hammann

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Die alte Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, die Karl der Große im Jahre 794 n. Chr. erstmals in einer Urkunde erwähnte, ist reich an wundervollen Sagen und Legenden und blickt auf eine große deutsche Geschichte zurück. Kein geringerer als Carolus Magnus, Karl der Große, einer der geschichtsträchtigsten Herrscher des Abendlandes, wählte die Furt der... Read more

What We’re Teaching Our Sons

By: Owen Booth

Narrated by: Owen Booth

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what... Read more

The Unexpected Genius of Pigs

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Matt Whyman

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long. Pigs are highly social and smart. They like to play. They’re inventive, crafty and belligerent – and incredibly singleminded. Ultimately, we have far more in common with these... Read more

Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance

By: Valorie Kondos Field

Narrated by: Valorie Kondos Field

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Highly acclaimed UCLA Women's gymnastics coach of 7 NCAA championships Valorie Kondos Field shares insights on how to use uniqueness and authenticity to achieve success.
Former professional ballerina Valorie Kondos Field--or Miss Val, as she's affectionately known--has never tumbled, flipped, or even played any type of organized sports, and yet... Read more

Impossible Owls

By: Brian Phillips

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.



The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new... Read more

Kamikaze Kangaroos!

By: Tony James Slater

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony James Slater knew nothing about Australia. Except for the fact that he’d just arrived there. The stage is set for an outrageous adventure: three people, one van, on an epic, 20,000 mile road trip around Australia. What could possibly go wrong?

Of course, the van—nicknamed "Rusty"—is a crumbling wreck, held together by the world’s most... Read more

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

By: Dr. Steven Novella

Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."

It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with... Read more