Art bestsellers

The Art Thief

A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“I have not been able to stop talking about this book since I finished listening to it. It’s the story about the world’s most prolific (yet astoundingly unremarkable) art thief. While it’s a short listen, it’s fascinating beginning to end, full of twists and immersive details. Read more

Get the Picture

A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

“The art world is wack, and this book is a fascinating look at it. Bosker is a fantastic narrator; thoroughly engaging. Highly recommend this one! Read more

Monsters

A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“Woody Allen, Picasso, even Michael Jackson? What do you do when the artists you love turn out to be terrible people? Claire Dederer confronts her own conflicted emotions with wit and deep insight. There are no easy answers here. Read more

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

A Memoir

By: Matthew Perry
Narrated by: Matthew Perry
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more

Behind the Seams

My Life in Rhinestones

By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

“As a typically fiction-only reader this book was a true delight to listen to! With narration from Dolly Parton herself, as well as some of her designers, it really grabbed my attention. A great way to learn about Dolly's life as well as her style! Included you'll find a pdf so you can look some of the fashions discussed in the book. Read more

When I Was Your Age

Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice From a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson
Narrated by: Kenan Thompson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie JonesWhen I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan ThompsonKenan Thompson... Read more

The Design of Everyday Things

Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Don Norman
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics.
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.
The fault, argues this ingenious -- even... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 2

By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 23 hours 1 minute

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

Shit, Actually

The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

“Lindy West makes true observations about movies in ways that will make you laugh at out, and cause you to re-think some of your 90s/00s favorite films! Her witty commentary is what we all NEED in this 2020 world, even if you have not seen the films. It’s written by someone smart and hilarious who has strong opinions about things that don’t... Read more

Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
 
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more

Born Standing Up

A Comic's Life

By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit... Read more

Dying of Politeness

A Memoir

By: Geena Davis
Narrated by: Geena Davis
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

“I love how Davis' mind works and how much passion she has for her job. A funny and highly entertaining listen that will have you smiling and binging her life's work. Read more

Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Quentin Tarantino
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Instant New York Times bestsellerThe long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary... Read more

Celebrating Birds

An Interactive Field and Listening Guide Inspired by the Wingspan Game

By: Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon & Laura Jennings
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.

Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international... Read more

Hamlet

A BBC Radio Production

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Ellie Beaven, Full Cast, Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Cranham & Michael Sheen
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

In this BBC full-cast production, the ghost of Hamlet's father orders him to kill the man who took his life, his throne and his wife: Claudius.

In a tale of caution, tragedy and revenge, Hamlet is driven to madness by his mission and his father's legacy.

Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet, with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as... Read more

Frida

A Biography of Frida Kahlo

By: Hayden Herrera
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

""Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human."" — San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and... Read more

Men Have Called Her Crazy

A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler
Length: TBA

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.

In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in... Read more

Sunshine Girl

An Unexpected Life

By: Julianna Margulies
Narrated by: Julianna Margulies
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • “At once a tender coming-of-age story and a deeply personal look at a young woman making... Read more

Kubrick

An Odyssey

By: Nathan Abrams & Robert P. Kolker
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.

The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years.

Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap.... Read more

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

By: Alison Arngrim
Narrated by: Alison Arngrim
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim's comic memoir of growing up as one of television's most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making... Read more

A Suitable Boy

By: Vikram Seth
Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker, Full Cast & Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world.

The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece

'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may... Read more

In Montmartre

Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

By: Sue Roe
Narrated by: Emma Bering
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century

In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a... Read more

All About Me!

My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks
Narrated by: Mel Brooks
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“I am an unabashed Mel Brooks fan, and this is everything that I wanted and more! Mel narrates his life in great and fantastic detail, from his earliest memories growing up in Brooklyn to all his Hollywood exploits and beyond. His wit and warmth exude throughout, and his stories encapsulate his long list of pranks, one of kind adventures, and... Read more

The Lost Painting

The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

By: Jonathan Harr
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. 

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to... Read more

The Swans of Harlem

Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

By: Karen Valby
Narrated by: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Marcia Lynn Sells, Khadija Tariyan McKinney G. & January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.

“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!” —Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy

“Utterly absorbing,... Read more

John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme: Series 5

The BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show

By: John Finnemore
Narrated by: Full Cast & John Finnemore
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

John Finnemore's Double Acts Series 1 is the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show!

The complete fifth series of BBC Radio 4’s award-winning sketch show, written by and starring the writer of Cabin Pressure.

'One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some... Read more

Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Patience

By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

These news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Patience includes "Aunt Ellie," "Duke's 25th," and "You're Not the Only One." Read more

Walt Disney - Abridged

The Triumph of the American Imagination

By: Neal Gabler
Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, here is the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in American entertainment and cultural history.
From the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood to the visionary whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen,... Read more

The Far Pavilions

By: M.M. Kaye
Narrated by: Blake Ritson & Full Cast
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of M.M. Kaye’s epic novel of love and war. M.M. Kaye’s masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that spans over twenty years, moving from the foothills of the Himalayas, to the burning plains, to the besieged British Mission in Kabul. It begins in 1857 when, following the Indian... Read more

Earth to Moon

A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa
Length: TBA

From daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age as part of the MTV generation in the 1980s as the “Valley Girl,” and finding herself after losing her father, then her mother, and the fracturing of her longest relationships. I got my... Read more

Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon & Marni Penning
Length: 28 hours 49 minutes

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives... Read more

The Lady from the Black Lagoon

Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

“One part biography and one part autobiography Mallory O'Meara tells the story of Milicent Patrick a beautiful and talented artist and actress in 1950's Hollywood. It is the story of Milicent's successful creation of the creature from the Black Lagoon and how the male dominated Hollywood industry buried her contribution to one of the most well... Read more

As You Wish

Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden
Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Chris Sarandon, Andy Scheinman, Wallace Shawn & Robin Wright
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“An affectionate and engaging love letter to the movie-adaptation of The Princess Bride, and everyone who worked on the project. If you are a huge fan of the fairytale cult classic, this memoir is a must-read that will leave you feeling nostalgic, and ready to watch the film again with new eyes. With guest commentary from the cast and crew, this... Read more

Being Henry

The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler
Narrated by: Henry Winkler
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

“I loved listening to the author tell stories and recount memories of his career and life. It was fascinating and funny and so entertaining! We have sold so many copies of this book and the audiobook especially!! Read more

Is this Anything?

By: Jerry Seinfeld
Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

“My husband and I have had the pleasure of seeing Jerry Seinfeld live on two occasions. Obviously, we are big fans. When I learned that Seinfeld was releasing his book at the same time as a cross-country road trip that we had planned, I was ecstatic. Jerry did not let us down. The miles flew by quickly as we laughed our way through Connecticut. I... Read more

It Came from the Closet

Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese & various authors
Narrated by: various narrators, Graham Halstead, Aven Shore, Aida Reluzco, Mark Sanderlin, Tori Barron, Krystal Hammond, Daniel Henning, Ron Butler, Hope Newhouse, Lindsey Dorcus, André Santana, Joel Froomkin, Mike Cooper, Em Grosland & Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist... Read more

The Science of Storytelling

By: Will Storr
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can tell better stories, revealing, among... Read more

Bossypants

By: Tina Fey
Narrated by: Tina Fey
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she... Read more

Every Man for Himself and God Against All

A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before

Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated... Read more

Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

By: Cassandra Peterson
Narrated by: Cassandra Peterson
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself.  On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and... Read more

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek

How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

By: Thea Glassman
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“Anyone who grew up watching 90s and early 2000s TV will adore this deep dive into why & how these shows came to be. This is excellent on audio as well - like a great podcast! Read more

All The Beauty in the World

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley
Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the... Read more

Burn It Down

Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

By: Maureen Ryan
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions... Read more

Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 17 hours 1 minute

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing... Read more

The 99% Invisible City

A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

By: Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
Narrated by: Roman Mars
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

From the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?Or stopped to consider why you don't see... Read more

The Path to Paradise

A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

“Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage.”—New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award–winning director Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long... Read more

The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going

By: Austin Kleon
Narrated by: Austin Kleon
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

An audio compilation ofSteal Like an Artist, Show Your Workand Keep Going.  Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life.  Includes full text from:Steal Like an Artist: The New York... Read more

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

A Memoir

By: Bob Odenkirk
Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick & Leo Benvenuti
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

In this“essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club)memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

“I’ve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and... Read more

Your Brain on Art

How the Arts Transform Us

By: Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.

“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times... Read more

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume
Narrated by: Matt Baume
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from... Read more