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AZADI
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in...
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Remarkable
- By Creative on 31-01-25
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AZADI
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Love in Exile
- By: Shon Faye
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’ Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every...
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I love listing to this audible book.
- By jackie h on 24-03-26
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Love in Exile
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Notes on Grief
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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On 10th June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
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It just sounded like me talking to me
- By J Aravind on 22-06-21
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Notes on Grief
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.
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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 22-09-17
- Language: English
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance160
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The best of the Minimalists! This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably different from reading individual selections online. From simple living, decluttering, and finances to passion, health, and relationships, Essential is for anyone who desires a more intentional life.
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mumbling narrator destroys great content
- By Public name on 09-05-17
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-10-16
- Language: English
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I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things
- A creative journey through the everyday wonders of our world
- By: Rob Auton
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A selection of the world’s most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories and biro drawings detailing a selection of the Earth’s incredible things by...
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Incredible work
- By Barry G. on 03-01-23
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I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things
- A creative journey through the everyday wonders of our world
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ‘This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled by Christmas’ THE TIMES (Book of the Year) ‘You may disagree with Lionel Shriver’s...
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Vice-signalling
- By Graham G Grant on 14-02-23
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert Capa, Susan Shillinglaw - introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -...
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Very interesting and enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-22
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A Russian Journal
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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The Voice that Thunders
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more...
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The Voice that Thunders
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
- Essays
- By: Jenny Diski
- Narrated by: Charlotte Randle, Chloe Diski
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski, read by Charlotte Randle and Chloe Diski. A tonic for the soul ... I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal' Emilia Clarke ‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or...
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Fantastic Jenny Diski
- By Kindle Customer on 10-07-24
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
- Essays
- Narrated by: Charlotte Randle, Chloe Diski
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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On the Couch
- Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
- By: Siri Hustvedt, Andre Aciman, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and others
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.
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On the Couch
- Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance57
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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a singular experience
- By Curran on 28-08-13
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...
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Utterly, depressingly, brilliant.
- By Georgia Fancett on 10-04-25
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The Conspiracy against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall479
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Performance431
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere.... I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.'
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Fantastic!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-17
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Small Wonder
- Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR In this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the...
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Small Wonder
- Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Quietly Hostile
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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After fleeing Chicago to quarantine at home in Michigan, Irby finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her upper lip hairs are visible on Zoom. Her career reaches new heights: she gets to work with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City - her dream! - but behind the new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep her life together. Our friend in print is back, on point, and ready to take us with her, from adopting Abe (her scrawny, watery-eyed firstborn dog) to her favourite, extremely specific porn searches (including two old nuns).
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This book saved my life (my week!)
- By Kimberley Crafts & Crochet on 05-06-23
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Quietly Hostile
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience...
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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A Long Game
- How to Write Fiction
- By: Elizabeth McCracken
- Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Warm, wise and full of practical tips, this book is the ideal companion to every writing life Write every day Show, don’t tell Write what you know Kill Your Darlings These are some of the most popular nuggets of advice given to writers, universally agreed to be true...
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clear and expressive, and scary.
- By Anonymous on 23-02-26
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A Long Game
- How to Write Fiction
- Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-01-26
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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