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

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart
Narrated by: Miranda Hart
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

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Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title!

Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered... Read more

Cue the Sun!

The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

“Are you low-key fascinated by reality tv? This is the book for you! It follows unscripted television from its game-show-type origins all the way up to today. It's a big part of our culture so I think it's great someone is studying it with such detail. Read more

Sonny Boy

A Memoir

By: Al Pacino
Narrated by: Al Pacino
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

“The book is a beautiful trip.” (New York Times Magazine) • “Soulful . . .  Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years.” (Los Angeles Times) • “Startlingly cinematic ... A fine memoir.” (The Guardian)

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative... 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

Paris in Ruins

Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

By: Sebastian Smee
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans—then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of... Read more

Disney High

The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

By: Ashley Spencer
Narrated by: Lalaine
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

This program is read by actor Lalaine, known for her roles in Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, The Disney Channel original movie You Wish, and her role as Kate in the 1999 remake of Annie. It features a foreword and an epilogue read by the author.

The first unauthorized look at the inner workings—and ultimate breakdown—of the Disney Channel machine

For... 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

The Spamalot Diaries

By: Eric Idle
Narrated by: Eric Idle & Alan Tudyk
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author

On March 17, 2005, Spamalot debuted on Broadway to rapturous reviews for its... Read more

Men Have Called Her Crazy

A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler
Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“Tendler flays with loving care the scabs of our childhood & young adult years. Exposing the raw underbelly with a grace and poetry befitting an artist of her caliber, while maintaining a level of relatability many fail to achieve. Read more

They Went Another Way

A Hollywood Memoir

By: Bruce Eric Kaplan
Narrated by: Bruce Eric Kaplan
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

This program is read by the author.

A darkly comic memoir about being a working creative person in a world that is growing ever more dysfunctional, by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and television writer Bruce Eric Kaplan

In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a... Read more

Lorne

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

By: Susan Morrison
Length: TBA

The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show

Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a... 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 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

“Looking for some inspiration for keeping your chin up while you create your art? Austin Kleon does a fantastic job of giving you just that as he describes many processes and advice from major thinkers throughout our times. There are lots of great little tidbits about finding your tribe and sharing your work that were particularly poignant. Read more

My Broken Language

A Memoir

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.

“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away.... Read more

Monsters

A Fan's Dilemma

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

“As a reader and a bookseller and a lover of all kinds of art, I’m confronted daily by the question of how to reconcile my love with the sometimes horrible artists who created those works. This intelligent essay collection gave me a lot to think about and was even comforting in the end. Read more

How to Build a Fashion Icon

Notes on Confidence from the World's Only Image Architect

By: Law Roach
Narrated by: Law Roach
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

“If you follow fashion and are a lover of red-carpet style, you probably already know Law Roach and his work. Law Roach is the mastermind behind looks that have broken the Internet time and again—from Zendaya at the Met Gala to Anya Taylor-Joy at the Golden Globes, from Lewis Hamilton’s iconic streetwear to Céline Dion’s style renaissance. In... Read more

The Queens of Animation

The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

By: Nathalia Holt
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures).

From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt... Read more

American Scary

A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

By: Jeremy Dauber
Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror—and what it tells us about ourselves.
 
In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the reader to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United... 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

The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel
Narrated by: Katy Hessel
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

“Did this book make me cry? Yes. Did I think it would? No. This audio book is read by the author and knowing that makes it seem extra special. She has a lovely voice and I learned so much. I appreciated the writing style because this is the first book I have read about women and gender nonconforming artists that describes their work in ways I... 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

Ninth Street Women

Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel
Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
Length: 39 hours 14 minutes

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).

Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic,... Read more

I Must Say

My Life As Humble Comedy Legend

By: Martin Short
Narrated by: Martin Short
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

“Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.” — Washington PostIn this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite... 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

Chasing Beauty

The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its... Read more

Surely You Can't Be Serious

The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker
Narrated by: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Arne Schmidt, Barry Diller, Beau Bridges, Bill Hader, Bob Weiss, David Zucker, Dick Chudnow, Hunt Lowry, James Murray, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Praino, John Landis, Jon Davison, Joyce Bulifant, Julie Hagerty, Ken Collins, Laura Orrico, Lee Bryant, Lloyd Schwartz, Lorna Patterson, Marcy Goldman, Matt Stone, Michael Eisner, Molly Shannon, Pat Proft, Patton Oswalt, Peter Farrelly, Rich Markey, Robert Hays, Ross Harris, Sarah Silverman, Tom Parry & Trey Parker
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

This program is read by the authors (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker), Laura Orrico and Joe Praino, with special appearances by an all-star cast of comedy giants, including the film's stars, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays, as well as Beau Bridges, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Peter Farrelly, Bill Hader, Jimmy Kimmel, John Landis,... Read more

Oscar Wars

A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading... Read more

Kid Artists

True Tales of Childhood From Creative Legends

Kid Legends: Book #3

By: David Stabler
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world’s most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Jackson Pollock’s family moved constantly—he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old. Georgia... 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

Catching the Big Fish

Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

By: David Lynch
Narrated by: David Lynch
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed... Read more

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of... 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

Miss May Does Not Exist

The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius

By: Carrie Courogen
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

As part of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, May revolutionized sketch comedy before striking out on her own to make history as the third woman to be admitted into the Directors Guild of America when she wrote, directed, and starred in 1971’s A New Leaf. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, May was one of Hollywood’s top... Read more

Born to Be Posthumous

The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

By: Mark Dery
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the... Read more

From Under the Truck

A Memoir

By: Josh Brolin
Narrated by: Josh Brolin
Length: TBA

From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back and forth through time, Josh Brolin captures a life marked by curiosity, pain, devotion, kindness, humor. He recounts an unconventional childhood far from Hollywood. Raised... Read more

Didion and Babitz

By: Lili Anolik
Narrated by: Lili Anolik
Length: TBA

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan... Read more

Impro

Improvisation and the Theatre

By: Keith Johnstone
Narrated by: William Reay
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Impro is the most dynamic, funny, wise, practical, and provocative book on theatre craft that I have ever read. (James Roose-Evans, British theatre director, priest, and writer) Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him.... 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

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

By: James Acaster
Narrated by: James Acaster
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult reading it in public as I looked like a madman' - Richard Herring

'James Acaster has a brilliant comic mind, crackling with energy every bit as much as his corduroy slacks' - Milton Jones

James... Read more

Working on a Song

The Lyrics of HADESTOWN

By: Anaïs Mitchell
Narrated by: Anaïs Mitchell & Steve Earle
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020

An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown—the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—from its author, songwriter... Read more

The Lonely City

Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By: Olivia Laing
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The... Read more

Dancing on My Own

Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy

By: Simon Wu
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 | A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick""A book that emerges out of the moment, electric with timely energies."" –Washington Post“Keen and refreshing.” –Cathy Park Hong""Genius."" –Claudia RankineAn expansive and deeply personal essay collection which explores the aesthetics of... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 1

A full-cast BBC Radio Comedy

By: John Finnemore
Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore, Roger Allam & Stephanie Cole
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying actresses to Italy, cricketers to the Sahara, or a cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more

Ghosts of the British Museum

A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

By: Noah Angell
Narrated by: Noah Angell
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.' - Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin Of All Witches

'Fascinating and... Read more

The Rainbow Age of Television

An Opinionated History of Queer TV

By: Shayna Maci Warner
Narrated by: Shayna Maci Warner
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

With the last decade's television boom across a multitude of platforms, American audiences are being treated to a cascade of shows that some have trumpeted as a second Golden Age. But something completely new is stirring, too—the Rainbow Age. For the first time in the history of American television, we have shows in which LGBTQIA+ characters... Read more

The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition

A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

By: Nikki Sixx
Narrated by: Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman & Ross Marquand
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

In honor of the ten-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is reissued with exclusive new content. This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our... Read more

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies

Hamlet; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McKellen, Paul Scofield & Peggy Ashcroft
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Three powerful radio productions from the BBC archives starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup and Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent . These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist.

Romeo and Juliet: The... Read more

Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart

What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive

By: Russ Ramsey
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Beyond a mere introduction to great art, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart is about loving to learn what art has to teach us about the wonder and struggle of being alive.Did you know that: Vincent van Gogh's attempt to start an artist's colony with Paul Gauguin lasted only nine weeks, ending in his infamous "ear episode"? Pablo Picasso was a prime... Read more

Vivienne Westwood

By: Vivienne Westwood & Ian Kelly
Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world.

For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating... Read more