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The top 50 Essays audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 1,300+ partner bookstore locations.
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Essays
By Lauren Hough
Narrated by: Cate Blanchett & Lauren Hough
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
"This is a memoir in essays about so many things—growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it’s like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough’s writing will break your heart." —Roxanne Gay
Searing and extremely personal... Read more »
Bestseller #2
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more »
Bestseller #3
The Best of Me
By David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
The Best of Me
“As if there is anything greater than a new David Sedaris, it's listening to David Sedaris read the new David Sedaris. This self-edited collection of essays from his prolific 25-year career is exactly what we need to boost the morale of 2020 and remind ourselves what a crazy world we've always lived in when viewed through Sedaris's keen observational eye and told with his unique & irreverent voice. The Best of Me is perfect for both long-time fans or those reading Sedaris for the first time and the audio read by the author means no nuance is left behind.”
Jessica, Literally Speaking
Bestseller #4
World Travel
An Irreverent Guide
By Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander & Steve Albini
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
World Travel
“Like the cowriter Laurie Woolever, I was initially a little skeptical that the world needed this travel guide, but now that I've sampled it I'm so grateful to have a little bit more of Bourdain in the world. While there is some practical advice here (hotel and restaurant suggestions), what I really love is hearing Bourdain's trademark wry humor and utter irreverence. Take a whirlwind tour around the world from Argentina to Vietnam and dozens of countries in between. ”
Emily, An Unlikely Story
Bestseller #5
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Crazy Stories about Racism
By Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
“I didn’t think it was possible to combine education and humor so effectively in a book about racism, but Ruffin and Lamar proved me wrong. This incredibly well-structured, digestible, challenging, and engaging book opened my eyes to the many ways racism can permeate every interaction in Black people’s lives. The way the sisters play off each other and how Ruffin reflects on Lamar’s experience in contrast to her own make the book especially accessible. A must-read!”
Emily Autenrieth, A Seat at the Table Books
Bestseller #6
Finding Freedom
A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
By Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Finding Freedom
“A memoir that grabs you from the beginning and immediately has you rooting hard for a scrappy, young, genius chef-to-be as she overcomes some pretty serious challenges along the way to owning one of the most sought-out restaurants in New England.”
Michael Herrmann, Gibson's Bookstore
Bestseller #7
Dear Girls
Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
By Ali Wong
Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.
“Knife-sharp . . . a genuine... Read more »
Bestseller #8
Calypso
By David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Calypso
“We, your concerned booksellers, want to make sure you are in tip-top reading shape before David Sedaris visits Main Street Books. Much like a runner must train for a marathon, you must exercise your sense of humor, so as not to pull something in David's presence. Tune up your funny bone with Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, or any of the other great Sedaris collections on Libro.fm. ”
Eleanor, Main Street Books Davidson
Bestseller #9
Crying in H Mart
A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner
Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far... Read more »
Bestseller #10
The Witches Are Coming
By Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
The Witches Are Coming
“This was recommended to me as a funny political/social commentary read, particularly the audiobook. Lindy West is funny, on the point, and full of rational sense! So many things became clear, like why I no longer watch "funny" movies made by "funny" men. I highly recommend this to anybody who like humor and non-fiction/memoir/stuff. Particularly if you are in search of your next audiobook.”
Julia, The Bookloft
Bestseller #11
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Unabridged Selections
By Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more »
Bestseller #12
Wow, No Thank You.
Essays
By Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and... Read more »
Bestseller #13
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: TBA
A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green.
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green... Read more »
Bestseller #14
A Very Punchable Face
A Memoir
By Colin Jost
Narrated by: Colin Jost
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.
“I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.”—Larry David
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Cosmopolitan • Vulture • Parade
If there’s... Read more »
Bestseller #15
The Wreckage of My Presence
Essays
By Casey Wilson
Narrated by: Casey Wilson
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.
Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of... Read more »
Bestseller #16
Shit, Actually
The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
By Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Shit, Actually
“It might be that Lindy West talks during movies, but you wouldn't shush her. She's better than the movie. This audiobook is read by the author and she is hilarious. Smart, funny, irreverent and feminist. I'll take that with a bowl of popcorn. PS. I really, really want West's Hermione-lead HP remake.”
Robin, Books & Books @ The Studios of Key West
Bestseller #17
The Hard Crowd
Essays 2000-2020
By Rachel Kushner
Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.
Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (Michael Lindgren, The Millions) and as a master of the essay... Read more »
Bestseller #18
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By Joan Didion
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Hilton Als
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
*A New York Times Best Seller*
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 from Vogue, TIME, Bustle, The New York... Read more »
Bestseller #19
Life's Edge
The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By Carl Zimmer
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
“Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.”
—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world—from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses—the harder they find it is to locate life’s edge.
Carl Zimmer... Read more »
Bestseller #20
Gathering Moss
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more »
Bestseller #21
Rising
Dispatches from the New American Shore
By Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.
In this highly original work of lyrical... Read more »
Bestseller #22
Weird but Normal
Essays
By Mia Mercado
Narrated by: Mia Mercado
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Weird but Normal
“Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado is a hilarious and thought-provoking look at the weird aspects of every day life that we all experience. When authors narrate their own memoirs, it adds an additional dimension to the story to hear it literally in their own words and voice. Mercado reminds us that it's okay to be ourselves, even if we are a little bit weird.”
Tina, Leaves Book and Tea Shop
Bestseller #23
The Fire Next Time
By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our... Read more »
Bestseller #24
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By Tarana Burke & Brené Brown
Length: TBA
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.
Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox, Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing... Read more »
Bestseller #25
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Essays
By Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
“There are many ways to craft a humorous essay. One of the most straightforward is to harness the clarity to tell it exactly like it is. You know, through the warped lens of personality. Samantha Irby sees all, and she sees it through wickedly potent bifocals.”
Eleanor, Main Street Books Davidson
Bestseller #26
The Last Black Unicorn
By Tiffany Haddish
Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South... Read more »
Bestseller #27
Fraud
By David Rakoff
Narrated by: David Rakoff
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Fraud
“Reading David Rakoff is not unlike sitting in the veterinarian's office with your family, having just put down a beloved pet, worn out with grief, swollen-eyed and snot-nosed, peering over the edge of an existential abyss, when a tabby cat patient with an anxiety disorder breaks free of its carrier and gobbles up a little girl's pet hamster, sending the office into a tear-laden frenzy. Immediate am-I-laughing-or-am-I-crying relief breaks through the grief and you feel just a little bit crazy. This is what it is to read David Rakoff.”
Eleanor, Main Street Books Davidson
Bestseller #28
The Disordered Cosmos
A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.
In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the... Read more »
Bestseller #29
All We Can Save
Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Sherri Mitchell, Catherine Pierce, Kate Marvel, Adrienne Maree Brown, Jacqueline Patterson, Janine Benyus, Camille T. Dungy, Mary Anne Hitt, Abigail Dillen, Leah C. Stokes, Joy Harjo, Maggie Thomas & Marge Piercy
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Janet Mock, Bahni Turpin & Alfre Woodard
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more »
Bestseller #30
H Is for Hawk
By Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
When Helen Macdonald’sfather died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experiencedfalconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she’d never before been temptedto train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, shesaw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving topurchase and raise... Read more »
Bestseller #31
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
By Rachel Bloom
Narrated by: Rachel Bloom
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different,"... Read more »
Bestseller #32
Trace
Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
By Lauret Savoy
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors... Read more »
Bestseller #33
Good Apple
Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
By Elizabeth Passarella
Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
“For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated.”
Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative, Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she... Read more »
Bestseller #34
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
By Michael Arceneaux
Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media.
From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I’m Judging You, a timely collection... Read more »
Bestseller #35
Notes From the Bathroom Line
Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy
By Amy Solomon
Narrated by: Amy Solomon & Multi Cast
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
A collection of never-before-seen humor pieces—essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more—from 150 of the biggest female comedians today, curated by Amy Solomon, a producer of the hit HBO shows Silicon Valley and Barry, performed by the author and Jo Firestone, Mitra Jouhari, Whitmer Thomas, Lauren Lapkus, Sasheer Zamata,... Read more »
Bestseller #36
Intimations
Six Essays
By Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith
Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
Intimations
“Strongly recommend this book of six short essays written in the wake of pandemic shut-downs and ensuing isolation and racial injustice and protests. Smith is always a favorite, but this collection is profound, thought-provoking, and one to revisit again and again.”
Tina, Leaves Book and Tea Shop
Bestseller #37
Thanks for Waiting
The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
By Doree Shafrir
Length: TBA
An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected
“Thanks for Waiting is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form.”—Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her... Read more »
Bestseller #38
Idiot
Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash
By Laura Clery
Narrated by: Laura Clery
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist
From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby and You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein.
Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She... Read more »
Bestseller #39
I Like to Watch
Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
By Emily Nussbaum
Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more »
Bestseller #40
Trick Mirror
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 »
Bestseller #41
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
Essays
By Phoebe Robinson
Length: TBA
New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more.
Written in Phoebe’s unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest... Read more »
Bestseller #42
The Groom Will Keep His Name
And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
By Matt Ortile
Narrated by: Matt Ortile
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America who is learning that everything is about sex (Bitch Magazine) -- and sex is about power.
When Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Harassed as a kid for his brown skin, accent, and femininity, he believed... Read more »
Bestseller #43
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
By Michele Filgate
Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, Janina Edwards, Emily Ellet, Cynthia Farrell, Soneela Nankani, David Sadzin, Keong Sim & Candace Thaxton
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.
As an undergraduate, Michele... Read more »
Bestseller #44
The Bassoon King
My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
By Rainn Wilson
Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and... Read more »
Bestseller #45
Knitlandia
A Knitter Sees the World
By Clara Parkes
Narrated by: Clara Parkes
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world.
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to... Read more »
Bestseller #46
Little Weirds
By Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Little Weirds
“Little Weirds, a collection of essays by actress and comedian Jenny Slate, is pure magic—a joyous, thoughtful, and deeply gorgeous peek into the soul of an extremely bright and unique individual. Jenny’s mastery of the English language, the way she arranges words to tell a story, the vulnerability with which she does it, and the purity of her heart is so astounding at times that reading a paragraph once or twice is simply not enough. Little Weirds cuts deeply into what it means to be a woman here on this earth. It is about friendship and growth and learning to love ourselves in all of our tender and wild strangeness.”
Jenna Schenk, BookTowne
Bestseller #47
The Mother Tongue
English and How It Got That Way
By Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells... Read more »
Bestseller #48
NPR Driveway Moments Baseball
Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go
NPR Driveway Moments
By NPR
Narrated by: Neal Conan
Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime.< Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the... Read more »
Bestseller #49
The Book of Difficult Fruit
Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
By Kate Lebo
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
A is for Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for Durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor—peaches, old garlic. M is for Medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for Quince, which, fresh, gives off the... Read more »
Bestseller #50
Rebel Chef
In Search of What Matters
By Dominique Crenn & Emma Brockes
Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn
By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and everything she knew to move to San Francisco, where... Read more »