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Literary Audiobooks

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    Poetry Unbound

    50 Poems to Open Your World

    by Pádraig Ó Tuama ...
    Narrated by Pádraig Ó Tuama ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Professor and The Madman

    A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    A New York Times Notable BookThe Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Scoundrel

    How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

    by Sarah Weinman ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him freeIn the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Argonauts

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Narrated by Maggie Nelson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and familyMaggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    Narrated by Marion Turner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Drydento Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Shakespeare

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and updated to include recent discoveries, Shakespeare: ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Bettyville

    A Memoir

    by George Hodgman ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother-a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself-an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook-in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Angela's Ashes

    by Frank McCourt ...
    Narrated by Frank McCourt ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 8 min

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    What Comes Next and How to Like It

    A Memoir

    by Abigail Thomas ...
    Narrated by Abigail Thomas ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 13 min

    The New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life—an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: “If you only read one book this year, make it this one” (Ann Patchett).In her bestselling memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the devastating loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

    by Catherine Gray ...
    Narrated by Catherine Gray ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    'Truthful, modern and real' - Stylist'Brave, witty and brilliantly written' - Marie Claire'Hilarious, sharp, spitfire writing' - Sacha Z. Scoblic, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and author of Unwasted: My Lush SobrietyEver sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? ... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Traveling Mercies

    Some Thoughts on Faith

    by Anne Lamott ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny.With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Going There (read by Katie Couric)

    by Katie Couric ...
    Narrated by Katie Couric ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 27 min

    This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    by Maya Angelou ...
    Narrated by Maya Angelou ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Glass Castle

    A Memoir

    by Jeannette Walls ...
    Narrated by Jeannette Walls ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Into the Wild

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Narrated by Philip Franklin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself..."Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Into Thin Air

    A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Narrated by Jon Krakauer ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 58 min

    When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Small Place

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    by Joan Didion ...
    Narrated by Barbara Caruso ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 10 min

    Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness, about marriage and children ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Into Thin Air

    A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Narrated by Philip Franklin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Furious Hours

    Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

    by Casey Cep ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    **ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY *Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside HookNew York Times* Best Seller**“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Papillon

    by Henri Charriere ...
    Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 26 min

    Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

    Essays and Arguments

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    Narrated by Paul Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 46 min

    In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Red Comet

    The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

    by Heather Clark ...
    Narrated by Laura Jennings ...

    Unabridged

    45 hours 27 min

    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed**With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD