American Cheese
By: Joe Berkowitz
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese.
“Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious, American Cheese goes far beyond the plastic yellow slices... Read more
Tough Titties
By: Laura Belgray
Narrated by: Laura Belgray
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover a brutally honest, hilarious, and relatable account of being a late bloomer on the dating scene, trying to master adulthood, and embracing your inner dork: "a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you" (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast... Read more
The Book of (More) Delights
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Pre-order now! The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy shares this new chronicle of small, daily wonders—and it is exactly the book we need in these unsettling times.
Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón).... Read more
Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“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
View audiobookPlease Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?
With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable... Read more
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know
By: Retta
Narrated by: Retta
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book feels like a real conversation. When we enter Retta's world we are at the best party and in the hands of a gracious, self-perceptive, and deeply hilarious host." — Amy Poehler
This program is read by the author.
In this hilarious audiobook essay collection, Parks and Recreation star Retta shares the stories that led to her success in... Read more
Walking with Sam
By: Andrew McCarthy
Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more... Read more
I Take My Coffee Black
By: Tyler Merritt
Narrated by: Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Merritt, James Iglehart, Je...
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has... Read more
View audiobookBuy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
By: Tara Schuster
Narrated by: Tara Schuster
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at Comedy Central who was called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele
“You’re going to want Tara Schuster to become your new best friend.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“Compelling, persuasive,... Read more
Nice Try
By: Josh Gondelman
Narrated by: Josh Gondelman
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman’s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results.Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying—and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic—dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer—is known throughout the industry as one of comedy’s true “nice... Read more
View audiobookBring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.
"Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR
When Helen Ellis and her lifelong... Read more
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
DON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH—NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.
Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but... Read more
Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is... Read more
Southern Lady Code
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"I loved it." —Ann Patchett
The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living... Read more
Wolfish
By: Erica Berry
Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive presentation." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award... Read more
View audiobookMy First Popsicle
By: Zosia Mamet
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Da...
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.
Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more
What If? 2
By: Randall Munroe
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire... Read more
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
Narrated by: John Koenig
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the... Read more
Black Nerd Problems
By: William Evans & Omar Holmon
Narrated by: William Evans & Omar Holmon
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays—on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation—that “will fill you with joy and give you hope for the future of geek culture” (Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
When... Read more
If I Knew Then
By: Jann Arden
Narrated by: Jann Arden
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.
Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her... Read more
Miracle Country
By: Kendra Atleework
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.
Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the... Read more
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie... Read more
Dreyer's English
By: Benjamin Dreyer
Narrated by: Benjamin Dreyer & Alison Fraser
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • Paste • Shelf Awareness
“Essential (and delightful!)”—People
We all write, all the time: books, blogs,... Read more
The Souls of Yellow Folk
By: Wesley Yang
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin... Read more
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