- Classics (6,540)
- Historical Fiction (15,812)
We're pleased to have you join us
30-day trial with Audible is available.
Best Sellers
-
Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
-
-
Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
-
Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
-
-
Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
-
Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
-
-
easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
-
Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
-
-
This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
-
Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....
-
-
enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
-
Miami
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....
-
-
Fascinating book but some narration issues
- By "paraxylene" on 27-12-21
By: Joan Didion
-
Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
-
-
Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
-
Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
-
-
Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
-
Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
-
-
easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
-
Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
-
-
This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
-
Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....
-
-
enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
-
Miami
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....
-
-
Fascinating book but some narration issues
- By "paraxylene" on 27-12-21
By: Joan Didion
-
Gridalo
- By: Roberto Saviano
- Narrated by: Roberto Saviano, Pino Insegno
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Un uomo si ferma di fronte alla scuola che ha frequentato a sedici anni e vede uscire il ragazzo che è stato, quello che ancora ha un futuro tutto da immaginare. L'uomo sa che quel ragazzo è solo, e il suo cammino non sarà facile. Vorrebbe poterlo aiutare, ma non gli è concesso...
By: Roberto Saviano
-
The Essays
- A Selection
- By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....
-
-
Wonderful
- By BristolVoyage on 15-09-23
By: Michel Montaigne, and others
-
It's Not About the Burqa
- Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
- By: Mariam Khan
- Narrated by: Mariam Khan, Amna Saleem, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about....
-
-
A wonderful selection of personal & vital response
- By Mrs N Forbes on 21-02-19
By: Mariam Khan
-
Genius and Ink
- Virginia Woolf on How to Read
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf....
By: Virginia Woolf
-
Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....
-
-
Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
By: Clive James
-
Flush
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....
-
-
Voiceover skips entire parts of the book at a time
- By Sylva on 19-03-24
By: Virginia Woolf
-
Tell Me the Truth About Love
- 13 Tales from Couples Therapy
- By: Susanna Abse
- Narrated by: Susanna Abse
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Drawing on more than 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships....
-
-
Fairly interesting, though the title is misleading
- By David M Sumner-Smith on 03-10-22
By: Susanna Abse
-
Coventry
- By: Rachel Cusk
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work....
-
-
Essays for Women, about Women,
- By Aquilina Christophorus on 27-08-21
By: Rachel Cusk
-
How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- By: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....
-
-
She really doesn’t like dudes
- By Sveinbjörn Pálsson on 17-09-20
By: Lane Moore
-
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
- A Mortal Instruments Reader
- By: Cassandra Clare - editor
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Number-one New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare created the Mortal Instruments in 2004 with City of Bones (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Since then, the series has grown to five books....
-
-
Dreadful not worth the money
- By Tippy on 07-07-14
-
On Meditation
- By: Sri M.
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quiet your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation....
-
-
Excellent book
- By Sonic on 04-08-23
By: Sri M.
-
Mamá Desobediente (Narración en Castellano) [Disobedient Mom]
- By: Esther Vivas
- Narrated by: Raquel Romero Escriva
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
¿Qué implicaciones tiene ser madre, parir y dar de mamar? Las mujeres nos enfrentamos a una doble presión, ser mamás, como dicta el mantra patriarcal, y triunfar o sobrevivir como podamos en el mercado de trabajo....
By: Esther Vivas
-
The Lion and the Unicorn
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change....
-
-
The Depth of the Blitz
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-22
By: George Orwell
-
United States: Essays 1952-1992
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....
-
-
What is better than Gore Vidal
- By Pen Name on 29-08-23
By: Gore Vidal
-
Re-Sisters
- The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
- By: Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Narrated by: Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Myself, Delia and Margery—a trinity of the sacred and profane, sinners and saints of a kind...Re-sisters is the story of three women consumed by their passion for life, a passion they expressed through music, art and lifestyle—their recordings....
-
-
Essential non-conformity
- By Johan De Ryck on 29-05-23
-
On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
-
-
Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
By: Kae Tempest
-
The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
-
-
Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
-
Puedes hacerme lo que quieras [You Can Do Whatever You Want]
- By: Miguel Gane
- Narrated by: Miguel Gane
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Miguel Gane, uno de los poetas más leídos de su generación, reflexiona sobre las personas que poseen nuestro corazón, sobre cómo, a través del amor, nos ponemos en manos de otros hasta tal punto que quien te cura también te acaba hiriendo....
By: Miguel Gane
-
The Uncommercial Traveller
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens, published in 1860-1861...
By: Charles Dickens
-
What Writers Read
- 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
- By: Pandora Sykes, Various
- Narrated by: Nick Hornby, Sara Collins, Tessa Hadley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are....
-
-
Nice sentiment, badly narrated.
- By Emily on 06-12-22
By: Pandora Sykes, and others
-
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This compelling dramatic recreation has been carefully compiled from the original trial transcripts....
-
-
Astonishing performance by Martin Jarvis
- By Nicholas on 26-11-10
By: Gyles Brandreth
-
The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....
-
-
Returno to Torino
- By Welsh Mafia on 24-06-16
By: Primo Levi
-
Spring
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. It follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset....
-
-
A moving read
- By Arlene Finnigan on 12-04-21
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others
-
I Thought My Father Was God
- And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
- By: Edited by Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Paul Auster
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Paul Auster was asked to join NPR's Weekend All Things Considered program to tell stories, he turned the proposition on its head....
New Releases
-
Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
-
The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
By: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
-
A Black Girl in the Middle
- Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
- By: Shenequa Golding
- Narrated by: Aure Nash
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Black Girl in the Middle, a timely, compelling, and blazingly honest essay collection, Shenequa Golding holds up her magnifying glass to both her own experiences and those of young Black women everywhere. With her trademark wit and originality, Shenequa covers identity-searching themes of white supremacy, feminism, misogyny, love, sex and heartbreak. But this isn't just a book about Black women's trauma, it is also a book that embraces and celebrates the things that make Black women different.
By: Shenequa Golding
-
Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
By: Karolina Watroba
-
Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.
By: Anne Lamott
-
Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- By: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants listeners an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging.
By: Geoffrey Mak
-
Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
-
The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
By: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
-
A Black Girl in the Middle
- Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
- By: Shenequa Golding
- Narrated by: Aure Nash
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Black Girl in the Middle, a timely, compelling, and blazingly honest essay collection, Shenequa Golding holds up her magnifying glass to both her own experiences and those of young Black women everywhere. With her trademark wit and originality, Shenequa covers identity-searching themes of white supremacy, feminism, misogyny, love, sex and heartbreak. But this isn't just a book about Black women's trauma, it is also a book that embraces and celebrates the things that make Black women different.
By: Shenequa Golding
-
Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
By: Karolina Watroba
-
Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.
By: Anne Lamott
-
Mean Boys
- A Personal History
- By: Geoffrey Mak
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants listeners an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging.
By: Geoffrey Mak
-
Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
-
Excitable Boy
- Essays on Risk
- By: Dominic Gordon
- Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.
By: Dominic Gordon
-
Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.
By: Jessica J. Lee
-
Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
By: Joseph Epstein
-
Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
-
Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III