Essays audiobooks

He Held Radical Light

By: Christian Wiman

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and... Read more

The Old Man and the Gun

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a mesmerizing collection of true-crime stories that includes "The Old Man and the Gun"—the inspiration for the movie starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, along with two other riveting tales.

"The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and... Read more

Call Them By Their True Names

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun... Read more

Dangerous Minds

By: S. Hussain Zaidi & Brijesh Singh

Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dangerous Minds will delve into the complex and intricate lives of some of the most talked-about terrorists of the country. Dr Jalees Ansari, a doctor from Malegaon involved in eighty blasts, including some on railway tracks, was supposed to be a quiet, peace-loving medical professional. Fahmida Ansari, a housewife and mother of two from the... Read more

Devlok 2

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

Narrated by: Suyash Mohan

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Are the illustrious clans of the Mahabharata from Surya Vansh or Chandra Vansh?

Which yuga does the Ramayana occur in, and does it occur only once?

What do haldi, kumkum, bhasm or chandan signify in a puja thali?

After the sensational response to Season 1 of EPIC Channel’s Devlok with Devdutt Pattanaik, Devdutt invited his viewers and... Read more

Inside Chanakya's Mind

By: Radhakrishnan Pillai

Narrated by: Suyash Mohan

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive new book from India’s no. 1 business writer
Chanakya was one of the best strategic thinkers of the world. In the fourth century BC, he wrote the Arthashastra, an unrivalled political treatise that has since been used by leaders across the globe. In Inside Chanakya’s Mind, for the first time, Radhakrishnan Pillai, the bestselling... Read more

The Dog's Last Walk

By: Howard Jacobson

Narrated by: Howard Jacobson

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting, Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, Whatever It Is I... Read more

In Defense of Nuance

By: Magnus Vinding

Narrated by: RJ Bayley

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

We appear to find ourselves in a crisis of polarization and failed communication. What can we do about it?This essay argues that part of the solution may be that we all make a deliberate effort to follow certain virtues that are quite straightforward, if difficult to practice. Simply put, we should strive to be charitable toward our adversaries,... Read more

Every Lie I've Ever Told

By: Rosie Waterland

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm okay!' The bestselling author of The Anti-Cool Girl returns with a devastating, heartbreaking, brilliant, brave and laugh-out-loud funny memoir of telling lies and being on the brink...
'I had made it! All my dreams had come true. I had an operating fridge, I was doing brilliantly, and I had written the memoir to prove it. I even had online... Read more

Avant je criais fort

By: Jérémie McEwen

Narrated by: Jérémie McEwen

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Jérémie est professeur de philosophie au Collège Montmorency, rappeur du duo La Brigade des Moeurs, et chroniqueur philo à Radio-Canada (C’est fou, On dira ce qu’on voudra…). Il a aussi écrit ponctuellement pour La Presse, dans le magazine Nouveau Projet ou sur le site Voir.ca. Jérémie en a marre d’entendre, partout dans les médias, du monde... Read more

Gross Anatomy

By: Mara Altman

Narrated by: Mara Altman

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest, funny, neurotic, and totally gross love child of Mindy Kaling and Mary Roach.

Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe... Read more

The Chapo Guide to Revolution

By: Chapo Trap House

Narrated by: Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James,...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times bestseller
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker

The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the lizard-brained... Read more

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner... Read more

Ruthless

By: Marie Brenner

Narrated by: Marie Brenner

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most prolific and influential investigative journalists of her generation, Marie Brenner has brought countless fascinating people—politicians, activists, journalists, and private citizens—to life through her writing. Now, for the first time, her profile of the nefarious relationship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn is available as an... Read more

Less Ketchup than Salsa

By: Joe Cawley

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you go from pulling pints one day, to travelling the world, all-expenses paid the next?For this author it involved a huge dollop of Ketchup, a little bit of growing up, and an extraordinary sequence of events that flings the author on a career path he’d never dreamed could happen.Throw in the patter of little feet, sharp teeth,... Read more

ATTENTION

By: Joshua Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus
 
“Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED

One of Granta’s Best of Young American... Read more

Dreaming of Jupiter

By: Ted Simon

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly thirty years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s.... Read more

Tree

By: David Suzuki

Narrated by: David Skulski

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.

In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a... Read more

Maeve in America

By: Maeve Higgins

Narrated by: Maeve Higgins

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour

A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy path to finding her footing in New York City, from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins was a bestselling author and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old... Read more

Women in Clothes

By: Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & o...

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen Sepulveda, Keisha Zollar, ...

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more... Read more

Third Thoughts

By: Steven Weinberg

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize–winning author of To Explain the World.For more than four decades, one of the most captivating and celebrated science communicators of our time has challenged the public to think carefully about the foundations of nature and the inseparable entanglement of... Read more

Okay Fine Whatever

By: Courtenay Hameister

Narrated by: Courtenay Hameister

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding (Cheryl Strayed).

For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She... Read more

South Toward Home

By: Julia Reed

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Julia Reed

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South.

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and... Read more

The Anti-Cool Girl

By: Rosie Waterland

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brutal, brave, hilarious -- a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you.
Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various... Read more