Essays audiobooks

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.

“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead

“What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that... Read more

On Being 40(ish)

By: Lindsey Mead

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Madeleine Maby, Soneela Nankani...

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fifteen powerful women and writers you know and love—from the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, and The Atlantic—offer captivating, intimate, and candid explorations about what it’s really like turning forty—and that the best is yet to come.

The big 4-0. Like eighteen and twenty-one, this is a major and meaningful... Read more

Brown White Black

By: Nishta J. Mehra

Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance.

Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily... Read more

The Land of Little Rain

By: Mary Austin

Narrated by: Ellen Parker

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1903, The Land of Little Rain is Mary Austin's classic homage to the American Southwest. Her collection of short stories and essays takes readers on an enchanted journey through Death Valley, the High Sierras, and the Mojave Desert. This first-ever audiobook edition is read by Emmy Award-winning actress, Ellen Parker, and... Read more

Eureka

By: Graham Field

Narrated by: Graham Field

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a hard roadEspecially on an old bike and with little money, but harder still is resisting the urge to ride. This is a journey of thrill and despair as the author heads into heavily armed Iraq, barely unable to escape the overwhelming hospitality and humbling generosity.On the verge of discoveryUreka is an almost accidental realisation that... Read more

Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard

Narrated by: Emily Bernard

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” 

In these twelve deeply personal, connected... Read more

Bookends

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon & George Newbern

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a... Read more

Dancing at the Edge of the World

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos—in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.Le Guin... Read more

At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.

Proving that fishing is not just a part-time pursuit, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman takes us through a year with America's favorite fishing scribe, John Gierach, who dedicates himself to his... Read more

Taste and See

By: Margaret Feinberg

Narrated by: Margaret Feinberg

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Margaret Feinberg, one of America's most beloved teachers and writers, as she sets out on a remarkable journey to unearth God's perspective on food. What you discover will forever change the way you read the Bible--and approach every meal. This groundbreaking book provides a culinary exploration of Scripture. You'll descend 400 feet below... Read more

Paseos por Londres

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cristina Rubio

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Entre el cuaderno de viajes, el ensayo literario, el diario personal y la crónica urbana, el autor nos muestra su fascinación por el turbulento y espléndido pasado de Budapest. De la barbarie a la civilización, de la sabiduría de Marco Aurelio a la gran narrativa magiar contemporánea, este recorrido por las huellas de la memoria atiende también... Read more

Variaciones sobre Budapest

By: Sergi Bellver

Narrated by: Antonio Galeano

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Entre el cuaderno de viajes, el ensayo literario, el diario personal y la crónica urbana, el autor nos muestra su fascinación por el turbulento y espléndido pasado de Budapest. De la barbarie a la civilización, de la sabiduría de Marco Aurelio a la gran narrativa magiar contemporánea, este recorrido por las huellas de la memoria atiende también... Read more

Eat It Anyway

By: Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison

Narrated by: Eve Simmons and Laura Dennison, Laura Kirman & ...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.' - Virginia Woolf.

The definition of 'healthy eating' has been chewed up, spat out and re-digested enough times to make Joe Public give up and seek out their nearest branch of McDonald's. Our mindless obsession with eating 'right' is such that we're now more concerned about... Read more

Self Deception : India's China Policies

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Simalaya

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all warnings in Tibet and our entire border? What did he do when those assumptions proved wrong? What eventually led to the debacle of 1962? Are the same... Read more

My Life Among the Underdogs

By: Tia Torres

Narrated by: Tia Torres

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planets hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her... Read more

Soul Healing with Our Animal Companions

By: Tammy Billups

Narrated by: Henrietta Weekes

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to understanding the profound connection in animal/human relationships and its potential for mutual healing

• 2020 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award

• Explains the unspoken connection between people and their animal companions and how they share the same energetic patterns and emotional wounds

• Outlines specific behavioral... Read more

The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for... Read more

En el barco de Ise. Viaje literario por Japón

By: Suso Mourelo

Narrated by: Aníbal Soto

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Suso Mourelo recorre Japón con brújula literaria. Desde grandes ciudades a tranquilos enclaves rurales, el objetivo es conocer los lugares donde transcurrieron las novelas de sus autores preferidos: el Tokio del escritor maldito Osamu Dazai o la pequeña isla de Kamishima que sirvió de inspiración a Yukio Mishima; el Kioto de las historias... Read more

كمين القصر العيني

By: عمر طاهر

Narrated by: محمد العربي

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

مع بداية الثورة المصرية ونزول الشباب إلى ميدان التحرير دأب "عمر طاهر" على كتابة مقالاته اليومية والأسبوعية متحدثًا عن الوضع العام، عن الشباب، عن الأمل القادم، عن الوضع السياسي وناقدًا للكثير من الأحداث في تلك الفترة لم يخطر ببال "عمر طاهر" أنّ مقالاته ستجتمع في كتاب لتكون مرجعًا لجيلٍ بأكمله عن ثورةٍ مستمرة.. "كمين القصر العيني" هو أرشيف كامل... Read more

A Dynamic God

By: Nancy Mairs

Narrated by: Vicki Summers-Christopher

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

God doesn't saunter in once for all and settle like a large cat plumping herself into your favorite rocker with an air that says, "Here I am! Now your life is complete!" God dances beyond the threshold and must continually be enticed into our dwelling. I hope these essays remind us all to extend that invitation, clean all the corners and polish... Read more

Still Life with Brook Trout

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers



In Still Life with Brook Trout, John Gierach demonstrates once again that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport.



Gierach travels to Wyoming and Maine and points in between,... Read more

One Story, One Song

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in... Read more

Rediscovering Travel

By: Seth Kugel

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly... Read more

The Rush for Second Place

By: William Gaddis

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists, the heir to Joyce and Nabokov. Less well known is Gaddis's body of perceptive critical writings.



Presented here is a wide range of Gaddis's original essays. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'"... Read more