Delight
By: J. B. Priestley
Narrated by: Sean Baker
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench ... Read more
View audiobookFlâneuse
By: Lauren Elkin
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative... Read more
View audiobookWe Came, We Saw, We Left
By: Charles Wheelan
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts... Read more
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
By: Shayla Lawson
Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more
The Outermost House
By: Henry Beston
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me... Read more
View audiobookFinding Hildasay
By: Christian Lewis
Narrated by: Christian Lewis
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home.
‘Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm – the part where the real pain sets in.... Read more
Coffee First, Then the World
By: Jenny Graham
Narrated by: Jenny Graham
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT
'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly
'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo lap of the planet by bike.
‘The relief was immense: no... Read more
The Cruise
By: Caroline James
Narrated by: Linda Hargreaves
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Three women. One widowed. One unmarried. One almost divorced. All aged 63, but not ready to give up on life! ... Read more
View audiobookWorld Travel
By: Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourd...
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos... Read more
View audiobookThey Didn't Teach THIS in Worm School!
By: Simone Lia
Narrated by: Edward Mitchell
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Marcus is a worm, and a bird named Laurence who looks very much like a chicken is about to eat him for breakfast. So what does Marcus do? He strikes up a conversation, of course! But even after talking his way out of being eaten, Marcus’s troubles are just beginning: soon he is clinging to Laurence’s neck as the designated navigator on an absurd... Read more
View audiobookFrom Scratch
By: Tembi Locke
Narrated by: Tembi Locke
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!
Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana!
This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food,... Read more
The Indifferent Stars Above
By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves,... Read more
View audiobookThe Stranger in the Woods
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.
A New York Times bestseller
In 1986, a shy and intelligent... Read more
Lands of Lost Borders
By: Kate Harris
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic."" —Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab... Read more
View audiobookVacationland
By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with... Read more
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more
View audiobookThe Falcon Thief
By: Joshua Hammer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more
A Walk in the Park
By: Kevin Fedarko
Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
A few years after quitting his job to follow... Read more
Round Here and Over Yonder
By: Trae Crowder & Corey Ryan Forrester
Narrated by: Trae Crowder & Corey Ryan Forrester
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the authors.Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin' the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches.Trae and Corey will take you from the smallest of small towns to major US metropolises (or is it metropoli? We haven't a fartin'... Read more
View audiobookRules for Rule Breaking
By: Talia Tucker
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo & Nick Martineau
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced into a shared college visit road trip where they discover that the reasons they’ve been rivals their entire lives might actually be signs they’re a perfect pair.
Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have... Read more
Moby Dyke
By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more
Your Table Is Ready
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Trained in acting and a lifer in the restaurant business, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina doles out opinions in the tone of an authentic New Yorker. He narrates with a good pace and rhythm. The inner workings of the restaurant world as revealed are exhilarating but often sordid and salacious....this is an entertaining and insightful audiobook."-... Read more
View audiobookThe Intimate City
By: Michael Kimmelman
Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best
As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more
Chasing the Thrill
By: Daniel Barbarisi
Narrated by: Daniel Barbarisi
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born... Read more
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