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The White Album
- Essays
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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"First appearing in print in 1979, this remarkable and intimate audiobook chronicles the implosion of the 1960s and reports on the people, mores, and trends that defined that turbulent time."—AudioFile First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and...
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The White Album
- Essays
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-04
- Language: English
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
- Written by: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How...
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Wish it was Chuck
- By Anonymous on 2017-11-22
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- 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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Three or More Is a Riot
- Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
- Written by: Jelani Cobb
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of the definitive journalists of this era—acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism—comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past...
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Three or More Is a Riot
- Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-14
- Language: English
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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams. His writings on aesthetics, language, truth, morality, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, and the meaning of existence have exerted a vast influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history.
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Arbitrary selections, not the complete books
- By Lord Ba on 2023-06-13
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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-19
- Language: English
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Music and Mind
- Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
- Written by: Renée Fleming - editor, Francis S. Collins MD PhD
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
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A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS.
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Music and Mind
- Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, Cary Hite, Vikas Adam, Renée Fleming
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-09
- Language: English
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In Praise of Shadows
- Written 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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Illuminating understanding of Shadows.
- By Playaprez on 2022-12-20
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-22
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- Written by: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage - whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance - as she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had.
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Not sure how this was supposed to make people less
- By E Birnam on 2020-12-30
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How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-06
- Language: English
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Written by: Jim Holt
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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Sexist overtones ruin an interesting read
- By Gregory on 2019-04-24
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Written by: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2024-08-20
- Language: English
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Aime-toi, un pas à la fois!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Cet ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour trouver sa motivation et la garder tout au long du parcours vers une meilleure santé. Finis les complexes et les excuses! C’est maintenant qu’on s’prend en main!
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Motivation +++
- By Anonymous on 2021-05-06
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Aime-toi, un pas à la fois!
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Series: Cours Toutoune, Book 2
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-07
- Language: French
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Written by: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings...
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Missing the First Essay
- By Anonymous on 2021-01-25
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2020-06-30
- Language: English
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Reflections
- Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
- Written by: Walter Benjamin
- Narrated by: Peter Demetz, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.
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Reflections
- Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
- Narrated by: Peter Demetz, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-28
- Language: English
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Written by: Zenshin Florence Caplow - editor, Reigetsu Susan Moon - editor
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-07
- Language: English
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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Superb
- By Alessandra on 2020-10-19
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-31
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly
- Collected Wisdom
- Written by: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more. “One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa...
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Dear Dolly
- Collected Wisdom
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-14
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Written by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-15
- Language: English
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It Came from the Closet
- Queer Reflections on Horror
- Written by: Joe Vallese - editor, various authors
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Aven Shore, Aida Reluzco, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.
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Wow!
- By K. Ottaway on 2022-10-14
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It Came from the Closet
- Queer Reflections on Horror
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Aven Shore, Aida Reluzco, Mark Sanderlin, Tori Barron, Krystal Hammond, Daniel Henning, Ron Butler, Hope Newhouse, Lindsey Dorcus, André Santana, Joel Froomkin, Mike Cooper, Em Grosland
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-04
- Language: English
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
- Written by: Patrick McManus
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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America's most hilarious sportsman returns with this collection of insights about youth, the great outdoors, and the philosophy of fileting fish. When best-selling author Patrick McManus looks at a subject, you're sure to come away with an outrageously new perspective.
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wont play again
- By Ernie N on 2024-05-06
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2009-10-29
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
- Written by: Susan Orlean, Jaime Green
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Callie Beaulieu, Will Tulin, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it,” writes Susan Orlean in her introduction. This year’s collection masterfully guides us through exotic locations...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Callie Beaulieu, Will Tulin, Shahjehan Khan, Brittany Bradford
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-21
- Language: English
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