Literary Criticism bestsellers
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All bestsellers Bestsellers by genreOne in a Millennial
On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
This program is read by the author.
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist
One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned... Read more
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Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
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A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“In this personal critique of creative genius Dederer examines the phenomena of cancel culture. Exploring relationships between artist and audience/fan and whether it's possible to have the proverbial "cake and eat it" too. Lots of food for thought. Read more
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By: Melissa Ferguson
Narrated by: Talon David
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I've LOLed many times while listening to this enemies-to-lovers romance about books. I almost predicted the twist but was thrown off by a character I never suspected. This book would be great for readers who would prefer a non-steamy read. I felt for Savannah as I learned more about her family's dynamic and how she has tried to navigate it.... Read more
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Log in Create accountA Swim in a Pond in the Rain
In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“In this literal master class on literature and writing, Saunders earnestly yet playfully dissects 19th-century Russian short stories to discover how they exude life to this very day, while highlighting methods any aspiring writer can employ. The huge bonus: reading the wondrous stories themselves, and experiencing Tolstoy’s authority, Chekhov’s... Read more
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On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
After nearly three... Read more
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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
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50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Not only has he selected interesting poems, his down-to-earth essays describing why he loves them are excellent! Nothing uber-academic. Makes one wish this was the approach of poetry teachers everywhere. Read more
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Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the... Read more
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A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 7 hours
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – The New York Times
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown
Who are you? You are data... Read more
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An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE• A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more
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Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more
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Coming of Age at the End of Our World
By: Daniel Sherrell
Narrated by: Daniel Sherrell
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORKER AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“[Warmth] is lyrical and erudite, engaging with science, activism, and philosophy . . . [Sherrell] captures the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair—the pendulum of emotional states that defines our attitude toward the future.” —The New Yorker... Read more
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By: Melissa Febos
Narrated by: Melissa Febos
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
National Bestseller
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys
“Irreverent and... Read more
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The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
By: Sarah Hart
Narrated by: Sarah Hart
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
This program is read by the author.
"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." —The New York Times
“An absolute joy to read!" —Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics
"Listeners, however well versed in literature and mathematics, or not, will relish author/narrator Sarah Hart's... Read more
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Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary... Read more
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Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers
By: Marisa Crawford & Megan Milks
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Ali Ahn, Emily Bauer, Erin Moon, Susan Heyward, Leigh Ponce, Daniel Henning, Dani Martineck, Nikki Massoud, Marisa Crawford, Megan Milks & Mara Wilson
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. Martin’s beloved Baby-Sitters Club series
In 1986, the first-ever meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club was called to order in a messy bedroom strewn with RingDings, scrunchies, and a... Read more
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By: Helena Kelly
Narrated by: Emma Bering
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.
In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena Kelly--dazzling... Read more
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From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
By: David J. Peterson
Narrated by: David J. Peterson
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance
From master language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative guide to language construction for sci-fi and fantasy fans, writers, game creators, and language... Read more
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Penguin Classics
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Laura Aikman
Length: 26 hours 56 minutes
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Laura Aikman. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pam Norris.
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia,... Read more
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Read by Alan Bennett
By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett
Length: 10 hours
The complete collected edition of the award-winning writer's unforgettable Untold Stories
Over the course of his distinguished entertainment career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George, and a... Read more
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Read by Alan Bennett
By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter
Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first time Telling Tales, Diaries: 1980-1990, the autobiographical section of Untold Stories, which covers the... Read more
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Log in Create accountAuthor Paul Levinson Discusses Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media
By: Paul Levinson
Narrated by: Paul Levinson
Length: 49 minutes
In the following keynote address given at Baylor University, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's seminal book, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man," which proposed that the media--not the content that they carry-- affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the focus... Read more
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By: Jon Fosse
Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
Length: TBA
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on... Read more
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Essays
By: Wang Xiaobo
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.
Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and... Read more
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Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Atwood is brilliant--obviously, yes, but wonderfully so, nonetheless. These pieces took me to somewhere I have never traveled on the wings of a goddess. She informs, scolds, gives warnings, and inspires action. She talks about books she's written and books others have written. She speaks with authority and humility. I listen with awe and gratitude. Read more
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Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia... Read more
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Essays
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe •... Read more
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A Book-By-Book Guide to C. S. Lewis' Spiritual Themes
By: Will Vaus
Narrated by: Will Vaus
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
When ten-year-old Anne Waller from Suffolk England wrote to C. S. Lewis in 1961 with a question about The Chronicles of Narnia she never expected to receive a reply. However, not only did Lewis answer her letter, he also outlined the spiritual themes in each of the Narnia books. That letter served as inspiration for Will Vaus to write The Hidden... Read more
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Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK Big Ideas
By: DK
Narrated by: Katherine Press
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing.
The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays, and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling... Read more
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By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative.... Read more
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When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
By: Elizabeth Lesser
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected... Read more
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By: Thomas C. Foster
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner, Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America looks closely at... Read more
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The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 45 hours 26 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.
“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed
With a... Read more
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The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need
By: Jessica Brody
Narrated by: Jessica Brody
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.
Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing.... Read more
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By: Paramhansa Yogananda
Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
Length: 18 hours 30 minutes
"You realise that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it." - Paramhansa Yogananda. Paramahansa Yogananda was one of those great spiritual teachers in India who introduced the ancient wisdom of Kriya yoga, to the western world. His book Autobiography of a Yogi, which was first published in 1946, has been... Read more
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Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
By: Duncan White
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 24 hours 47 minutes
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the... Read more
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By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood
“A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire... Read more
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Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Simon Jones & Neil Gaiman
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker!First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural... Read more
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Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more
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Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
By: Evette Dionne
Narrated by: Evette Dionne
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender—and toward a brighter future—from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down.In this insightful,... Read more
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By: Jeff Deutsch
Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the... Read more
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By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I’m convinced that Patti Smith is the reincarnation of some spiritual mystic. Someone like Joan of Arc or Hildegard von Bingen. At this point I am committed to only listening to her audiobooks because her words are even more powerful in her own dreamy cadence. I sound like a school girl mooning over her first loved celebrity but, I can’t say... Read more
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Writing the Race
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.”
— Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste
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By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained... Read more
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By: Mark Daniels
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Since the dawn of communication, humankind has looked around itself and used myths and legends to make sense of the world. Imaginative tales of goddesses, heroes, villains and beasts bring understanding to the biggest questions in life: Who made the world? What happens when we die? Where did we come from? How should we live our lives? Gods,... Read more
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The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.""[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn.""... Read more
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Occasional Essays
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times
Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both... Read more
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By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Sam Blair , Pietro Kelley, Teo Harding, Sefa Chandler, Clarissa Meyer Samuel Welch, Arina Sharp, Joshua Riley
Length: 31 hours 28 minutes
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature.
Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main... Read more
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The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
By: Jason McBride
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
“It’s shocking to learn that this is McBride’s first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more” —Los Angeles Times
The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature.
Kathy Acker... Read more
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