Essays audiobooks
The Book of Eating
By: Adam Platt
Narrated by: Adam Platt
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics.As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung... Read more
View audiobookEssays One
By: Lydia Davis
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis.
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal... Read more
Kölner Sagen und Legenden
By: Kristina Hammann
Narrated by: Michael Nowack
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Ach war das ein Leben in Köln! Des Abends bettete man sich zur Ruh und wenn man sich am nächsten Tage erhob, fand man alles aufs Vortrefflichste gerichtet. So ein schönes Leben hatten die Kölner früher also, als es die wundersamen Heinzelmännchen noch gab und diese kleinen Wesen den Kölnern ihre harte tagtägliche Arbeit abnahmen. Warum dies... Read more
View audiobookLa aventura de los romanos en Hispania
By: Juan Antonio Cebrián
Narrated by: Por confirmar
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Año 218 a.C., dos legiones romanas bajo el mando de Cneo Escipión desembarcan por sorpresa en la península Ibérica. Tienen como objetivo cortar las vías de suministro de los cartagineses, una estrategia más en el trascurso de la Segunda Guerra Púnica. Será el primer movimiento de un largo proceso que culminará con la invasión y colonización de... Read more
View audiobookThe Apprentice
By: Jacques Pépin
Narrated by: Jacques Pépin & Michel Chevalier
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called ""the best chef in America"" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award<en&winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain.
We see young Jacques as... Read more
Around the World in 60 Seconds
By: Nuseir Yassin
Narrated by: Nuseir Yassin
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
60 seconds. That’s how long it takes to dispel stereotypes in Mexico. Throw a house party for strangers in Israel. Change perspectives in Nebraska. Make friends in Japan. And connect millions of people all over the world.In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual tourist traps, Nas set out... Read more
View audiobookNash
By: Nash Grier
Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The first-ever book about Nash Grier, one of the biggest digital superstars in the world.
When he was still in high school, Nash Grier had no idea his life was about to change—forever. With the launch of the popular Vine app came the beginning of Nash’s career as a viral social media sensation. Now, in his official biography, the... Read more
Stealing Home
By: Ron Seybold
Narrated by: Ron Seybold
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting." KirkusIn an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing... Read more
View audiobookAlgren at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909–2009
By: Nelson Algren
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 17 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Nelson Algren’s two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventures of a Curious Cat
By: Curious Zelda
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
'Curiosity is more than a desire to discover. It's a lifestyle, and a purrvilege. It's hours of observing a fly on the wall. It's entering the sock drawer just before it closes. It's sniffing the lampshade one more time . . .'
Such is the wisdom of Curious Zelda: social media star, agony aunt, yoga teacher, cat. In The Adventures of a Curious Cat... Read more
The Shitshow
By: Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
Narrated by: Miles Jupp
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'
There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . .
The authors of the bestselling Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series... Read more
War is a Racket
By: General Smedley D. Butler
Narrated by: D. S. Harvey
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930's, General Smedley D. Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. The speech was well received and he wrote an expanded version of it, which was published as War Is A Racket. The work was published by Reader's... Read more
View audiobookMiracle on 10th Street
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time reflects on themes such as advent, epiphany, faith, and wonder in this Christmas holiday classic.For more than fifty years, Madeleine L'Engle has delighted and inspired readers with her warm, eloquent prose and inspirational poetry. She continues this tradition with Miracle on 10th Street, a collection... Read more
View audiobookMalaya
By: Cinelle Barnes
Narrated by: Cinelle Barnes
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America.Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning.Because she couldn’t... Read more
View audiobookGreat Australian Sporting Stories
By: Ian Heads & Norman Tasker
Narrated by: Chris Chapple
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee
'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a... Read more
99 Bottles
By: André Hueston Mack
Narrated by: André Hueston Mack
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A highly opinionated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated — and unorthodox — sommeliers and winemakers In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Mack presents listeners with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of... Read more
View audiobookDo You Mind If I Cancel?
By: Gary Janetti
Narrated by: Gary Janetti
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you love storytelling in the style of David Sedaris, this audiobook—narrated by Janetti himself—is for you." — Yahoo Lifestyle
This program is read by the author.
Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey… meet your new friend Gary Janetti.
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all... Read more
Dear Baseball Gods
By: Dan Blewett
Narrated by: Dan Blewett
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Dear Baseball Gods,
I hustled. I worked hard. I played the game the right way. Why did you let this happen?
I sat by beside a tree, staring at the ground, trying to decide what I would do next. The news was unthinkable—everything I worked for was now ruined. A second Tommy John surgery? Does anyone come back from this? What team would want a... Read more
Lâchez pas, les gars!
By: François Cardinal
Narrated by: Martin Larocque
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Qu’ont en commun l’éditorialiste en chef de La Presse, François Cardinal, l’ex-joueur du Canadien Steve Bégin, le chanteur Marc Hervieux, le comédien Claude Laroche, le chirurgien Stanley Vollant, l’artiste Marc Séguin, l’humoriste Mathieu Cyr et l’entrepreneur Alexandre Taillefer? Ils ont tous eu beaucoup de difficulté à l’école, au point de... Read more
View audiobookPretérito imperfecto
By: Nieves Conconstrina
Narrated by: Raquel Romero
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Este nuevo libro de Nieves Concostrina empieza en el Año de la Pera y llega a nuestros tiempos, pasando, cómo no, por Fernando VII. En estas historias podrá descubrir las consecuencias que trajo la única criadilla del último Austria, saber que fumamos por culpa de Colón, desmitificar el 2 de mayo, conocer que María Cristina de Borbón fue la... Read more
View audiobookDesmadre
By: Pamela Rodríguez
Narrated by: Pamela Rodríguez
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Camila es una artista de limeña de treinta y tres años, divorciada y con una hija de ocho años. Contacta con Juan por Tinder. Es de La Coruña, como el padre de su hija. Ambos se darán a conocer el uno al otro sin filtros y a gran velocidad. La atracción virtual compartida a diez mil kilómetros de distancia se convertirá enseguida en pasión fuera... Read more
View audiobookBurn the Place
By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place and what happens once she doesBurn the Place is a galvanizing culinary memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan’s journey from foraging on the family farm to opening her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is alive with startling imagery,... Read more
View audiobookWe Should All Be Mirandas
By: Chelsea Fairless & Lauren Garroni
Narrated by: Jessica Rau
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A snarky guide to life inspired by the most underrated character on Sex and the City, from the creators of the Instagram sensation @everyoutfitonSATC
When Sex and the City premiered, many were hesitant to identify as the Miranda of their social circle—after all, sarcasm, workaholism, and dubious fashion choices are rarely considered... Read more
Good Things Out of Nazareth
By: Flannery O'Connor
Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Dorothy Dillingham Blue & Various
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends.
Flannery O’Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her... Read more