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  • Danse Macabre Audiobook By Stephen King cover art

    • Danse Macabre

    • By: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • In ten brilliantly written chapters, Stephen King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.

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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 22,174 ratings

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

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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 5,531 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 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 2,600 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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  • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 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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  • 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 7,006 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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  • 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 8,831 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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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 10,588 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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  • 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 968 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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  • 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 1,846 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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  • Quietly Hostile Audiobook By Samantha Irby cover art

    • Quietly Hostile

    • Essays
    • By: Samantha Irby
    • Narrated by: Samantha Irby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings

    • Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts....

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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 1,695 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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  • A Certain Idea of America Audiobook By Peggy Noonan cover art

    • A Certain Idea of America

    • Selected Writings
    • By: Peggy Noonan
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Peggy Noonan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.

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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 4,016 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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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem Audiobook By Joan Didion cover art

    • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    • Picador Modern Classics
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Maya Hawke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”

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  • Essays Audiobook By George Orwell cover art

    • Essays

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings

    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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  • Little Weirds Audiobook By Jenny Slate cover art

    • Little Weirds

    • By: Jenny Slate
    • Narrated by: Jenny Slate
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings

    • You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style....

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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 1,709 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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  • The Memory Palace Audiobook By Nate DiMeo cover art

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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 864 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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