Essays audiobooks
A Town Called Dehra
By: Ruskin Bond
Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In this delightful collection; Ruskin Bond introduces us to the Dehradun he knows intimately and loves unreservedly—the town that he had spent many years of his childhood and youth in. A town which; when he knew it; was one of pony-drawn tongas and rickshaws; a town fond of gossip but tolerant of human foibles; a town of lush lichi trees;... Read more
View audiobookWhat I Did Not Learn At IIT
By: Rejeev Agarwal
Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A sudden transition from the mirthfulness of college life to the workplace often appears daunting and hard to acclimatise to. Time spent with friends, college festivities, overlooking the trials of life, and dreams of achieving big things abruptly transform into long office hours, stringent working conditions, and a monotonous life devoid of fun... Read more
View audiobookIndia's Most Fearless
By: Shiv Aroor & Rahul Singh
Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC; a soldier who killed 11 terrorists in 10 days; a Navy officer who sailed into a treacherous port to rescue hundreds from an exploding war; a bleeding Air Force pilot who found himself flying a jet that had become a screaming fireball . .... Read more
View audiobookFriends 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
View audiobookHabit Of Winning
By: Prakash Iyer
Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
At times when you feel let down due to the lack of self-confidence, you must read the book The Habit Of Winning: Stories To Inspire, Motivate And Unleash The Winner Within for a boost. This motivational book is a wonderful collection of short and inspirational stories and facts, which have the power to evoke the leader within oneself. Be it a... Read more
View audiobookIgnited Minds
By: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Authored by the most influential Indian President yet, this book delves into the obstacles that are preventing India from rising up to the challenge of development. India has unmatched talent and ambition with an inherent tendency to work hard, then what is it that keeps India from overtaking the world. Why does India as a nation settle for the... Read more
View audiobookThe Joy of Doing Just Enough
By: Jennifer McCartney
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Sit around, leave sh*t all over the place, drink, forget about deadlines...being lazy is pretty easy. But the real art to being chill is when someone without any real ambition can fly under the radar and live unscathed by the never-ending reams of self-help and inspiration rained upon anyone who just wants to watch Netflix. Find that magical... Read more
View audiobookGo Ask Ali
By: Ali Wentworth
Narrated by: Ali Wentworth
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Ali Wentworth’s first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics, and fellow comedians alike. Entertainment Weekly... Read more
View audiobookThe View from Flyover Country
By: Sarah Kendzior
Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER
From the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — Kirkus
In 2015, Sarah Kendzior... Read more
The Truth About Animals
By: Lucy Cooke
Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral... Read more
What the Future Looks Like
By: Jim Al-Khalili
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow- and beyond. Pull back the curtain... Read more
View audiobookAgainst Interpretation, and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre,... Read more
View audiobookAcid West
By: Joshua Wheeler
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking debut book of essays that takes listeners on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New... Read more
View audiobook100 Länder, 100 Frauen, 100 Räusche - Abridged
By: Michael Berndt & Rainer Schäfer
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Michael Berndt führt ein beschauliches Leben im ländlichen Sachsen. Er absolviert eine Metzgerlehre, nach der Arbeit trifft er sich gerne mit Freunden und Bekannten in der Kneipe, wo die Stammtischgespräche nicht selten in Unmut über die unerwünschten Fremden umschlagen, die einem ja doch nur die Arbeit wegnähmen. Michael Berndt sieht das... Read more
View audiobookMike Honeycutt’s World of Hunting and Fishing
By: Mike Honeycutt
Narrated by: Kate Marcin
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
For author Mike Honeycutt, there’s nothing more exciting than a remote trip with great scenery. In Mike Honeycutt’s World of Hunting and Fishing, he shares a travelogue that speaks to his passion for traveling the world to exotic locales to hunt and fish for unusual animal species. Based on his extensive travel experiences, Honeycutt narrates... Read more
View audiobookHamburger Sagen und Legenden
By: Kristina Hammann & Katharina Hammann
Narrated by: Michael Nowack
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Lange vor der heutigen Zeit lebten zauberhafte Wesen in der Hamburger Gegend und es geschahen seltsame Dinge, an die sich fast niemand mehr erinnert. So birgt die Hansestadt Hamburg zahlreiche Geheimnisse. Wohin z.B. verschwand der Goldschatz des Klaus Störtebeker? Wie kam der Stadtteil Altona zu seinem Namen? Das Hörbuch liefert Antworten und... Read more
View audiobookMy Patients and Other Animals
By: Suzy Fincham-Gray
Narrated by: Suzy Fincham-Gray
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals—a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experience of loving, healing, and losing our beloved pets, and the many ways they change our lives.
The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms on the English–Welsh border... Read more
A Brief History of Oversharing
By: Shawn Hitchins
Narrated by: Shawn Hitchins
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Musings from a “one-man flash mob” (Toronto Star)Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn’t shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes — he sacrifices them for an audience’s amusement. He roasts his younger self, the effeminate ginger-haired kid with a competitive... Read more
View audiobookAir Traffic
By: Gregory Pardlo
Narrated by: Gregory Pardlo
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.
Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic... Read more
The Displaced
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order.... Read more
View audiobookLook Alive Out There
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author
Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook.
From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays... Read more
See What Can Be Done
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 16 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America’s most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary—appearing in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s... Read more
View audiobookThe Very Worst Missionary
By: Jamie Wright
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
After finding Jesus at a suburban megachurch, young Jamie Wright trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her husband, kids, and the family cat, she intends to serve God and make converts. But she soon loses faith and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Fortunately, Knives the cat is... Read more
View audiobookMeaty
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes off the printed page in her uproarious first collection of essays.
Irby laughs her way through tragicomic mishaps, neuroses, and taboos as she struggles through adulthood: chin hairs, depression, bad sex, failed relationships, masturbation,... Read more