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The Future of Truth
- Written by: Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann - translator
- Narrated by: Werner Herzog
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our...
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The Future of Truth
- Narrated by: Werner Herzog
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-30
- Language: English
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- By Shantelle Lamouche on 2021-01-18
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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Truth & Beauty
- A Friendship
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed...
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Ann Patchett is a master storyteller
- By Belinda Burston on 2020-12-14
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Truth & Beauty
- A Friendship
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2004-08-10
- Language: English
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance35
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. ""The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles...
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Just everything I needed to hear…
- By Anonymous on 2025-09-08
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-23
- Language: English
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- Written by: Christine de Pizan
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Shocked and distressed by a male writer's vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter misogynist cliches and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time.
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After more than 600 years more relevant then ever.
- By Terrie Holgerson on 2020-05-15
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-06
- Language: English
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
- Written by: John Gierach
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is "[A]n acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives".
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-02
- Language: English
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The Rebel
- Written by: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he reveals how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny.
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Not the best of Camus
- By Reza on 2019-12-21
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The Rebel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-24
- Language: English
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Written by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance29
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An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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shocking lack of depth, cogency, and empathy
- By Steph W on 2024-12-10
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-05
- Language: English
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- Written by: Youngmi Mayer
- Narrated by: Youngmi Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings...
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A Joy
- By Becky on 2025-04-03
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I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Youngmi Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-12
- Language: English
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Arguably
- Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 28 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront...
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Read anything written by Christopher Hitchens
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-19
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Arguably
- Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 28 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-01
- Language: English
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- Written by: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance41
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning.
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requires further reading
- By Anonymous on 2019-08-19
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-20
- Language: English
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Class Act
- A Field Guide to a Gentleman's Wardrobe
- Written by: John Berendt
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling, iconic author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes an irreverent and essential style guide—from boxers to button downs, turtlenecks to tuxedos For more than a decade, beloved author John Berendt wrote a series of smart, sophisticated columns for Esquire on...
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Class Act
- A Field Guide to a Gentleman's Wardrobe
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 2026-10-13
- Language: English
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The First Reader
- On Writers and Editors
- Written by: Luiz Schwarcz, Alison Entrekin - translator
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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From one of the world’s most celebrated literary publishers, a beautiful and candid meditation on the art of being a partner to creative greatness For 40 years, Companhia das Letras, the Brazilian publishing house founded by Luiz Schwarcz, has stood for a steadfast and imaginative commitment...
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The First Reader
- On Writers and Editors
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2026-10-06
- Language: English
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How to Look Away
- The Ritual of Trauma Consumption and Why We Need It
- Written by: Daniel Peña
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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A riveting, kaleidoscopic exploration of the American compulsion toward cruelty and its expression through rituals of degradation for citizen and immigrant alike—from an award-winning writer reporting from both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border Having grown up in Texas, a border state where...
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How to Look Away
- The Ritual of Trauma Consumption and Why We Need It
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 2026-10-06
- Language: English
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The Memory Palace
- True Short Stories of the Past
- Written by: Nate DiMeo
- Narrated by: Nate DiMeo, Jad Abumrad, Daniel Alarcón, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace. “One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The...
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Love the podcast, love the book!
- By Strohbi on 2025-07-11
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The Memory Palace
- True Short Stories of the Past
- Narrated by: Nate DiMeo, Jad Abumrad, Daniel Alarcón, Betsy Brandt, Carrie Coon, Hrishikesh Hirway, Dominic Hoffman, Rebecca Lowman, Roman Mars, Robin Miles, Ryan Reynolds, Kai Ryssdal, Lili Taylor, Full Cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-19
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Essays
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things. "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register "Didion’s timeless essays...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Essays
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-05
- Language: English
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
- Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
- Written by: David Grann
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon...
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Enthralling
- By Dear happy on 2023-09-05
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
- Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-09
- Language: English
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The Haves and Have-Yachts
- Field Notes from the Frontier of American Excess (t)
- Written by: Evan Osnos
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London) From National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably timely” (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire...
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Book of vignettes
- By _MJH_ on 2025-08-23
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The Haves and Have-Yachts
- Field Notes from the Frontier of American Excess (t)
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-03
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance132
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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I had to listen to it a few times
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-24
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The Fire Next Time
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2008-01-16
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- Written by: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home...
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Wonderful memoirs by an ingenious author!
- By Kuan Ming on 2022-09-08
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-27
- Language: English
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