Essays audiobooks

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in artAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and “brilliant” by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of... Read more

The Point of It All

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Daniel Krauthammer

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future... Read more

In Search of the Canary Tree

By: Lauren E. Oakes

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world

Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes... Read more

How to Love the Universe

By: Stefan Klein

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more

How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard... Read more

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

By: Thomas Morris

Narrated by: Thomas Morris & Ruper Farley

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.

A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in... Read more

Dance for Two

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams presents a collection of essays, written over the past twenty years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer listeners a... Read more

Counting Sheep

By: Axel Lindén

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Norwegian Wood meets The Tao of Pooh in this philosophical, witty, and heartwarming collection of daily observations from a Swedish academic-turned-sheep farmer who finds peace and meaning outside the hustle and bustle of modern, urban life.

One of the fun things about keeping sheep is that now and then it feels like something other than a job... Read more

Hungover

By: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mouth full of sand, head throbbing. You're hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the front lines of humanity's age-old fight against hangovers to settle once and for all... Read more

الذين هبطوا من السماء

By: أنيس منصور

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

يعتبر كتاب "الذين هبطوا من السماء" من أشهر ما كُتب في مجال ما وراء الطبيعة ومما زاد من شهرته هو اسم المؤلف الكاتب المصري الكبير "أنيس منصور" الذي يطرح من خلال هذه السطور أسئلةً محيّرة ويناقش قضايا تُثار لأول مرة مّا يدفع العقل للتفكيرمليًّا في جميع ما تعلمه وقرأه عن التاريخ والحضارة.. ياخذنا هذا الكتاب في رحلةٍ فلكيةٍ جغرافية مثيرة ليُثبتَ بأنَّ... Read more

Smart Ass

By: Margaret Winslow

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City. She met midlife agita not head-on, but ass-on, fulfilling a childhood curiosity about donkeys by answering a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey" in the American Donkey and Mule Society's magazine,... Read more

Films from the Future

By: Andrew Maynard

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how movies reveal the future of technology

Fans of The Science of Interstellar, The Second Machine Age, and Physics of the Future will love Films from the Future.

Science, technology, and society: In Films from the Future, former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science fiction movies with his expertise on emerging... Read more

Estambul

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: Jordi Varela

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

El hermoso retrato de una ciudad y de una vida -la ciudad de Estambul y vida del Premio Nobel de Literatura OrhanPamuk-, ambas fascinantes por igual. Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio... Read more

La fois où j'ai écrit un livre

By: Rosalie Bonenfant

Narrated by: Rosalie Bonenfant

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

D’abord présentées sur les ondes d’Énergie puis de Rouge FM, les chroniques de Rosalie Bonenfant ont conquis des dizaines de milliers d’auditeurs. Tantôt mordantes et cyniques, tantôt intimistes et sensibles, les « humeurs » de Rosalie ne rejoignent pas que les gens de sa génération mais tous les Québécois, de l’adolescent au boomer… à... Read more

The Binge

By: Maria K

Narrated by: Shannon Riddle

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BINGE is more than just a cookbook. It is an endlessly amusing, semi-biographical, all-around irreverent discussion of all things food with a stack of delicious recipes thrown in for good measure Read more

The Grandmaster

By: Brin-Jonathan Butler

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“A bravura performance…An entertaining book” (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport.

The first week of November 2016, hundreds of people descended on New York... Read more

Another Fine Mess

By: Tim Moore

Narrated by: Tim Moore

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Another Fine Mess, written and read by Tim Moore.

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him... Read more

Don't Need The Whole Dog!

By: Tony James Slater

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 2004, Tony James Slater went to Ecuador, looking to become a man. Not all of him returned.

But the bit that did was fueled by a burning desire to do . . . something. Something that mattered. And, ideally, to get the hell out of England in the process.

His dream was to blatantly steal his friend Toby's dream—of escaping to... Read more

Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

By: Harrison Scott Key

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who’s ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.Little-known author Mark Twain once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the... Read more

How to be Alone

By: Lane Moore

Narrated by: Lane Moore

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.

Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was... Read more

Rising

By: Elizabeth Rush

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Hijos de las estrellas

By: María Teresa Ruiz

Narrated by: Javiera Del Pino

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Edición revisada, aumentada y con nuevas imágenes
En Hijos de las estrellas, la reconocida astrónoma María Teresa Ruiz condensa generosamente el conocimiento que existe sobre el universo, explicando en qué parte de este estamos así como cuándo y cómo llegamos aquí. Al mismo tiempo, describe con precisión y amenidad los métodos, técnicas e... Read more

Drinking from the Trough

By: Mary Carlson, DVM

Narrated by: Sara Morsey

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Carlson didn't plan to become a veterinarian, let alone the caretaker of many cats, two huskies, and horses (some with manners, some without). A suburban Chicago girl, she only knew about the American West from her uncle's stories. But thanks to him, she moved to Colorado for college—and, after falling in love with a veterinary student,... Read more

Well-Read Black Girl

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of... Read more

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers—Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father—“Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Tóibín’s... Read more