Classic Nonfiction

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    • Penguin Classics
    • Written by: Marcus Aurelius, Diskin Clay - introduction, Martin Hammond - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 142 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay. Originally written only for his personal...

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    • War and Peace; Anna Karenina; Resurrection; Short Stories; Novellas; and Non-Fiction
    • Written by: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory
    • Length: 186 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-26
    • Language: English
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    • Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators....

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    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Saul Reichlin, known for their roles in War and Peace and Miss Marple. This definitive recording includes an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale, also read by Saul Reichlin. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in...

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    • Written by: Plato, Christopher Rowe - translator
    • Narrated by: Jim Barclay
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jim Barclay, best known for their roles in The Young Ones and Jeeves and Wooster. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe, also read by Jim Barclay. 'We set about founding the best city we could...

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    • Penguin Classics
    • Written by: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford - introduction
    • Narrated by: Tanya Reynolds
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-03
    • Language: English
    • 10 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Tanya Reynolds, star of Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane...

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    • Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
    • Written by: David Quammen
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 12 ratings
    • “Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation...

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    • A Low Culture Manifesto
    • Written by: Chuck Klosterman
    • Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2006-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 25 ratings
    • From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal...

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    • Written by: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2006-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 19 ratings
    • The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of...

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    • Written by: John Berendt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron, John Berendt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2005-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 77 ratings
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book...

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    • Written by: Sloane Crosley
    • Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • "An unflinching and deeply absorbing memoir of grief and loss, expertly narrated by the author."—Library Journal (Starred Review) "Crosley’s narration is frank and articulate, a perfect complement to the wit and candor of her prose."—BookPage "Crosley's fresh imagery and pithy one-liners...

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    • Penguin Classics
    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner - introduction
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. 'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner This Penguin Classic is performed by Leighton Pugh, known for his various roles at the National Theatre. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Tanner. Beyond Good and Evil...

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    • The Story of My Experiments with Truth
    • Written by: Mohandas - Mahatma K. Gandhi
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2010-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 40 ratings
    • A holy man to Hindus, a hero to Muslims, and a criminal to the British, Mohandas K. Gandhi was an inspiring figure of the 20th century....

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    • Written by: Niccolo Machiavelli, Tim Parks - translator
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Callow, actor and director, known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and the BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew...

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    • Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson
    • Written by: JR MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 10 ratings
    • Dive deep into the lives, successes, and failures of some of the most successful, and wealthiest, men on the planet - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson - and discover what drove them all to become super achievers....

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    • Written by: Morrissey
    • Narrated by: David Morrissey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2013-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 8 ratings
    • “Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones.” –Rolling Stone “Morrissey is a pop star of unusual writing talent.” –The New York Times Autobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth...

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    • Written by: James Ellroy
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: LA Quartet, Book 4
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2007-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an...

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    • A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
    • Written by: Martín Prechtel
    • Narrated by: Martín Prechtel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the...

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