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  • Want Audiobook By Gillian Anderson cover art

    • Want

    • Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
    • By: Gillian Anderson
    • Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?

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  • Happy-Go-Lucky Audiobook By David Sedaris cover art

    • Happy-Go-Lucky

    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,460 ratings

    • David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....

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  • The Anthropocene Reviewed Audiobook By John Green cover art

    • The Anthropocene Reviewed

    • Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,494 ratings

    • Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....

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  • Calypso Audiobook By David Sedaris cover art

    • Calypso

    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22,141 ratings

    • With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....

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  • The Best of Me Audiobook By David Sedaris cover art

    • The Best of Me

    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,590 ratings

    • David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook....

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus Audiobook By Albert Camus cover art

    • The Myth of Sisyphus

    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 953 ratings

    • One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought....

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  • The Practicing Stoic Audiobook By Ward Farnsworth cover art

    • The Practicing Stoic

    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,002 ratings

    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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  • The Fire Next Time Audiobook By James Baldwin cover art

    • The Fire Next Time

    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,783 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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  • These Precious Days Audiobook By Ann Patchett cover art

    • These Precious Days

    • Essays
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,814 ratings

    • “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....

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  • Dad Is Fat Audiobook By Jim Gaffigan cover art

    • Dad Is Fat

    • By: Jim Gaffigan
    • Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,576 ratings
    • In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....

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  • Upstream Audiobook By Mary Oliver cover art

    • Upstream

    • Selected Essays
    • By: Mary Oliver
    • Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • “I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness to lose herself within the beauty of the natural world....

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  • What the Dog Saw Audiobook By Malcolm Gladwell cover art

    • What the Dog Saw

    • And Other Adventures
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,984 ratings

    • The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker....

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  • Walking in My Joy Audiobook By Jenifer Lewis cover art

    • Walking in My Joy

    • In These Streets
    • By: Jenifer Lewis
    • Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,658 ratings

    • Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul....

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  • Love's Executioner Audiobook By Irvin D. Yalom cover art

    • Love's Executioner

    • By: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,127 ratings
    • The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....

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  • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Audiobook By Ann Patchett cover art

    • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700 ratings
    • Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband....

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  • Truth & Beauty Audiobook By Ann Patchett cover art

    • Truth & Beauty

    • A Friendship
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 855 ratings
    • The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

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  • On Drinking Audiobook By Charles Bukowski cover art

    • On Drinking

    • By: Charles Bukowski
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings

    • A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....

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  • The Book of Delights Audiobook By Ross Gay cover art

    • The Book of Delights

    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 571 ratings

    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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  • Loving Corrections Audiobook By adrienne maree brown, Janine de Novais cover art

    • Loving Corrections

    • Emergent Strategy, Book 12
    • By: adrienne maree brown, Janine de Novais
    • Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
    • Series: Emergent Strategy, Book 12
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown’s Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war.

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  • Democracy in America Audiobook By Alexis de Tocqueville cover art

    • Democracy in America

    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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