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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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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....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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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....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble
- Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.....
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Nora Ephron-articulate, funny and intelligent
- By Sennichi on 10-10-13
By: Nora Ephron
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
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The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
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Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Returno to Torino
- By Welsh Mafia on 24-06-16
By: Primo Levi
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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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....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble
- Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.....
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Nora Ephron-articulate, funny and intelligent
- By Sennichi on 10-10-13
By: Nora Ephron
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
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The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
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Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Returno to Torino
- By Welsh Mafia on 24-06-16
By: Primo Levi
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Le Naufrage des civilisations
- By: Amin Maalouf
- Narrated by: Stéphane Boucher
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience...
By: Amin Maalouf
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The Braindead Megaphone
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction....
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Wise and witty book to dip in and out of
- By Charlotte Wright on 28-12-21
By: George Saunders
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The Common Reader Volume 1
- 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....
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Let this not be your first Virginia !
- By Fothergill on 30-04-20
By: Virginia Woolf
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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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....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
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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....
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What is better than Gore Vidal
- By Pen Name on 29-08-23
By: Gore Vidal
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Cold Fish Soup
- By: Adam Farrer
- Narrated by: Adam Farrer
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Before Adam Farrer’s family relocated to Withernsea in 1992, he’d never heard of the Holderness coast. The move represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind....
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Raw, personal, humorous
- By manjipoo on 25-05-23
By: Adam Farrer
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Spring
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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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....
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A moving read
- By Arlene Finnigan on 12-04-21
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories....
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Not every essay brilliant, but well worthwhile
- By Paul Beardsell on 23-02-20
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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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....
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
By: Clive James
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In Gratitude
- By: Jenny Diski
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché....
By: Jenny Diski
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change....
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The Depth of the Blitz
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-22
By: George Orwell
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
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Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
By: Kae Tempest
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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What My Mother And I Don't Talk About
- By Hayley Westwood on 03-05-22
By: Michele Filgate
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Flush
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....
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Told from point of view of Barrett Browning's dog
- By ROSALIND BUCK on 02-07-21
By: Virginia Woolf
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....
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Wonderful, just oddly pronounced
- By Ali on 05-10-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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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
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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....
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She really doesn’t like dudes
- By Sveinbjörn Pálsson on 17-09-20
By: Lane Moore
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Dispatches from the Diaspora
- From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
- By: Gary Younge
- Narrated by: David Monteith
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora. He has witnessed how much change is possible and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations....
By: Gary Younge
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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
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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....
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Essential non-conformity
- By Johan De Ryck on 29-05-23
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Should be required reading for maturing adults
- By Nze kkuc akabusi on 20-04-19
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The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki
- By: Matsuo Basho, Kamo no Chomei
- Narrated by: Togo Igawa
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki are two of the best-loved works of their kind, famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition....
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Straw slippers
- By Rogayah on 23-09-08
By: Matsuo Basho, and others
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Incidental Inventions
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller....
By: Elena Ferrante
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On Drinking
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....
By: Charles Bukowski
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Ignited Minds
- By: A. P. J. Kalam
- Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Authored by the most influential Indian president yet, this audiobook delves into the obstacles that are preventing India from rising up to the challenge of development....
By: A. P. J. Kalam
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Tales2inspire: The Diamond Collection Series V
- The Moonstone Collections: Book 1 and Book 2
- By: Lois W. Stern, Jan Hurst-Nicholson, Micki Peluso, and others
- Narrated by: Lois W Stern
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.
By: Lois W. Stern, and others
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No Judgement
- On Being Critical
- By: Lauren Oyler
- Narrated by: Lauren Oyler
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety. No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offer dazzling insights into how we live and think today.
By: Lauren Oyler
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Supernatural Horror in Literature is a essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. The essay was researched and written between November 1925 and May 1927, first published in August 1927, and then revised and expanded during 1933–1934. Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Art of Libromancy
- On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Josh Cook
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.
By: Josh Cook
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White as Milk and Rice
- Stories of India's Isolated Tribes
- By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
- Narrated by: Avantika Akerkar
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maria girls from Bastar practice sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
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Alphabetical Diaries
- By: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Kate Berlant
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
By: Sheila Heti
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Tales2inspire: The Diamond Collection Series V
- The Moonstone Collections: Book 1 and Book 2
- By: Lois W. Stern, Jan Hurst-Nicholson, Micki Peluso, and others
- Narrated by: Lois W Stern
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.
By: Lois W. Stern, and others
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No Judgement
- On Being Critical
- By: Lauren Oyler
- Narrated by: Lauren Oyler
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety. No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offer dazzling insights into how we live and think today.
By: Lauren Oyler
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Supernatural Horror in Literature is a essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. The essay was researched and written between November 1925 and May 1927, first published in August 1927, and then revised and expanded during 1933–1934. Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Art of Libromancy
- On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Josh Cook
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.
By: Josh Cook
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White as Milk and Rice
- Stories of India's Isolated Tribes
- By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
- Narrated by: Avantika Akerkar
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maria girls from Bastar practice sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
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Alphabetical Diaries
- By: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Kate Berlant
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
By: Sheila Heti
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Fire Season
- Selected Essays 1984-2021
- By: Gary Indiana, Christian Lorentzen
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath—in the same discerning, insolent, eloquent way—about high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, it's also political, plus it's a riot of fun.
By: Gary Indiana, and others
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Sensations Thoughts and Emotions
- Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023
- By: Lincoln Stoller
- Narrated by: Lincoln Stoller
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This book helps you see, think, and feel back together those parts of yourself the Western mind reduced to rubble. If you feel integration to be unnatural, that’s your problem at a glance. I apologize that the day is dawning and there’s work we need to do, but hello. It’s time to wake up.
By: Lincoln Stoller
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Sex with a Brain Injury
- On Concussion and Recovery
- By: Annie Liontas
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the “walking wounded,” facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother’s battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate and expand representations of mental health, ability, and disability—particularly in relation to women and the LGBT community.
By: Annie Liontas
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Acres of Diamonds
- By: Russell H. Conwell
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Acres of Diamonds - essay, written by Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. The original inspiration for Acres of Diamonds, his most famous essay, occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The work began as a speech, "at first given," wrote Conwell in 1913, "before a reunion of my old comrades of the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which served in the Civil War and in which I was captain."
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- By: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before.
By: Lavinia Greenlaw
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Virginia Woolf: 3 Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The essays included are: The Father: Woolf's ruminations of family and, particularly, the father within the works of Dostoyevsky. More Dostoyevsky: Further thoughts on Dostoyevsky's work, an author of whom she once wrote “It is directly obvious that he is the greatest writer ever born." In Cranford: A comedic exploration of Dostoyevsky's work where Woolf transplants the great master into English provincial life to explore the unique nature of his work and the English nature.
By: Virginia Woolf
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays Collection
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Letters & Reminisances; Virginia Woolf's Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Emma Gregory
- Length: 16 hrs
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of Fyodor Dostotevsky's two finest works of non-fiction.
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Chapters from My Autobiography
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Chapters from My Autobiography is a collection of twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907. Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a typically Twain-esque collection of rambling anecdotes and ruminations.
By: Mark Twain
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From Superman to Man
- By: J. A. Rogers
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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"From Superman to Man" is not just a critique of racial prejudices but also an empowerment tool. By dismantling stereotypes and celebrating black accomplishments, the book seeks to uplift the African-American community. It remains a relevant historical document, capturing the zeitgeist of its era and contributing to the ongoing discourse on race and identity. Rogers' dedication to dismantling stereotypes and promoting a more inclusive understanding of African-American history is evident throughout the text, making the book a significant contribution to the broader conversation on racial issues in America.
By: J. A. Rogers
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A Radiant Birth
- Advent Readings for a Bright Season
- By: Leslie Leyland Fields - editor, Paul J. Willis - editor
- Narrated by: Kellye A. Saunders, William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, "Behold a new and wonderful mystery!" In this volume, the Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus.
By: Leslie Leyland Fields - editor, and others
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Book 101 Review: Volume 3
- Suggestions
- By: Daniel Lucas
- Narrated by: Daniel Lucas
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Delve deep into the literary cosmos with "Book 101 Review Volume 3: Suggestions," an exquisite collection of reviews and recommendations tailored for every breed of listeners. Curated with meticulous detail, this volume showcases a diverse range of genres, authors, and narratives, aiming to rekindle the flame of seasoned bibliophiles and light the spark for budding enthusiasts.
By: Daniel Lucas
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George Orwell - Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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George Orwell (1903-50) is known around the world for his satirical novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he was arguably at his best in the essay form. Below, we've selected and introduced ten of Orwell's best essays for the interested newcomer to his non-fiction, but there are many more we could have added.
By: George Orwell