Essays audiobooks

The Traveling Feast

By: Rick Bass

Narrated by: Rick Bass

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review).

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has... Read more

Eating My Heroes

By: Rick Bass

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations

"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass, remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review editor in his office, in... Read more

Travel Tales: Women Alone — The #MeToo of Travel!

By: Michael Brein

Narrated by: Gary Roelofs & Rose Dupouy

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS SERIESThese are the true travel tales of solo women travelers being sexually harassed and assaulted in their travels around the world and what some of them were able to do about it! This is a book about how to survive as a solo woman traveler abroad.They are shouting “Me Too!” to you through these pages! No one should be subjected to the... Read more

See You Again in Pyongyang

By: Travis Jeppesen

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and... Read more

There Are No Grown-ups

By: Pamela Druckerman

Narrated by: Pamela Druckerman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.

When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever.
 
Yet... Read more

By the Smoke and the Smell

By: Thad Vogler

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We care so much about the food we eat: how it is made, by whom, and where. Yet we are far less careful about the spirits we drink, often allowing the biggest brands with the most marketing dollars to control the narrative. In By the Smoke and the Smell, Vogler is here to set the record straight. This remarkable memoir is the first book to ask... Read more

Blame It On Bianca Del Rio

By: Bianca Del Rio

Narrated by: Bianca Del Rio

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic—""The Joan Rivers of the Drag World,"" (New York Times)—who isn’t afraid to shock or offend brings her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary to the page in an uproarious collection of advice.When it comes to insult comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny,... Read more

I'm Keith Hernandez

By: Keith Hernandez

Narrated by: Keith Hernandez

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary first baseman Keith Hernandez tells all in this gripping literary memoir and New York Times bestseller.

Keith Hernandez revolutionized the role of first baseman. During his illustrious career with the World Series-winning St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets, he was a perennial fan favorite, earning eleven consecutive Gold Gloves, a... Read more

Consilience

By: Edward O. Wilson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal

One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In... Read more

Upon Further Review

By: Mike Pesca

Narrated by: Mike Pesca, Shira Springer, Peter Thomas Fornat...

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way.

"Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington Post
No announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the... Read more

Styles of Radical Will

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.In “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an... Read more

First Train Out of Denver

By: Leo Jenkins

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On a tenebrous winter morning in Denver, Colorado, Leo Jenkins felt the weight of the world crushing him. Leo has a decision to make—maintain a comfortable position in a career he's no longer passionate about—or take a massive leap of faith. Giving up everything he's ever known, Jenkins sells his business, purges every possession that won't fit... Read more

Tip of the Iceberg

By: Mark Adams

Narrated by: Mark Adams

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**The National Bestseller**

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating... Read more

A Pocketful of Hope For Mothers

By: Robin Jones Gunn

Narrated by: Robin Jones Gunn

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Every mother needs encouragement and inspiration. This lovely collection of stories, poems and verses narrated by the author will provide exactly that.. Best-selling author, Robin Jones Gunn, shares personal insights from when her children were young as well as heartwarming entries from her journal, written when her children began to have their... Read more

A Pocketful of Hope For Mothers

By: Robin Jones Gunn

Narrated by: Robin Jones Gunn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Every mother needs encouragement and inspiration. This lovely collection of stories, poems and verses narrated by the author will provide exactly that.. Best-selling author, Robin Jones Gunn, shares personal insights from when her children were young as well as heartwarming entries from her journal, written when her children began to have their... Read more

Bradbury Speaks

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

He is an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. On subjects as diverse as fiction, the future, film, famous personalities, and more, Ray Bradbury has much to say, as only he can say it. Collected between these covers are memories, ruminations,... Read more

The Book of the Courtier

By: Baldassare Castiglione

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, ‘What should a courtier be like?’ and presents a deep and timeless discussion that is reminiscent of Plato’s Symposium and... Read more

Spring

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. "Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to... Read more

The Destiny Thief

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Richard Russo

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review

A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

A Naturalist at Large

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to... Read more

Like Brothers

By: Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass

Narrated by: Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir.

“A book that anyone will love . . . You can enjoy it even if you have no idea who the Duplass brothers are.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Whether... Read more

The Best Of Ruskin Bond

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Paul Thottam

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far. Read more

Friends In Small Places

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Paul Thottam

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the... Read more

My Patients Like Treats

By: Duncan MacVean, DVM

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s all fun and games until somebody ends up in a cone.Physicians used to make house calls. Today, a few veterinarians still do. Duncan MacVean, DVM, is one such vet. His patients range from cats and dogs to pigs and lizard—each of them a unique personality. Every animal and every home is different, but every owner is the same in their... Read more