What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
By: Damon Young
Narrated by: Damon Young
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the YearFrom the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous... Read more
View audiobookI Might Regret This
By: Abbi Jacobson
Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more
What If This Were Enough?
By: Heather Havrilesky
Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
*APublishers WeeklyBest Book of 2018*
*ABustleBest Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One ofChicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*ASelfBest Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more
Can We All Be Feminists?
By: June Eric-Udorie
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who "calls to mind a young Audre Lorde" (Kirkus)
Why do some women struggle to identify as... Read more
Daemon Voices
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman & Simon Mason
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that... Read more
The Diary of a Bookseller
By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Robin Laing
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost … In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at... Read more
View audiobookFeminasty
By: Erin Gibson
Narrated by: Erin Gibson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality... Read more
Pops
By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: Michael Chabon
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Best Cook in the World
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.
Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She... Read more
Travel as a Political Act
By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.
With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's... Read more
This Will Be My Undoing
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist,... Read more
View audiobookDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
New York Times Best Seller
A Skimm Reads Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... Read more
Mincemeat
By: Leonardo Lucarelli
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen.
In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part of the landscape. In reality, the restaurant... Read more
Moranifesto
By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Joanna Neary
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose... Read more
View audiobookThe Princess Diarist
By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Carrie Fisher & Billie Lourd
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
2018 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *New York Times Bestseller *
When Carrie Fisher recently... Read more
Buffering
By: Hannah Hart
Narrated by: Hannah Hart & Judy Young
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the... Read more
View audiobookWhere Am I Now?
By: Mara Wilson
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads"
“Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City
Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly
A... Read more
You'll Grow Out of It
By: Jessi Klein
Narrated by: Jessi Klein
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman.
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.
In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers - through an... Read more
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more
The Oregon Trail
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Rinker Buck
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of... Read more
View audiobookI Feel Bad About My Neck
By: Nora Ephron
Narrated by: Nora Ephron
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read more
Zero at the Bone
By: Christian Wiman
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism,... Read more
View audiobookDaybreak at Chavez Ravine
By: Erik Sherman
Narrated by: Asa Siegel
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in a remote Mexican town, the left-hander had moved to the US less than two years before. He became an instant icon and there hasn't been a player since who created as many Dodgers fans.
After the Dodgers' move to... Read more