Essays audiobooks

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

My Years With Apu

By: Satyajit Ray

Narrated by: Suyash Mohan

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The absorbing story of how one of the greatest directors of our time began his film-making career. Read more

Habit 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

Failure Is An Option

By: H. Jon Benjamin

Narrated by: H. Jon Benjamin

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”
—AV Club


H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.

Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone... Read more

India'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

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

What 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

Ignited 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

The 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

The 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

Go 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

Against 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

Acid 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

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

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

100 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

Mike 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

Hamburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina 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

My 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

Air 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

The 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

Meaty

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