Humor Essays

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    • 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 2,594 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35,356 ratings
    • Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

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    • A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
    • By: Peter McGraw, Joel Warner
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Dr. Peter McGraw teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor....

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    • Rewire Your Brain to Stress Less, Laugh More, and Achieve More'er
    • By: Paul Osincup
    • Narrated by: Paul Osincup
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life.

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    • Essays
    • By: Tom Segura
    • Narrated by: Tom Segura
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,160 ratings
    • From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-topping podcasts “2 Bears 1 Cave” and “Your Mom’s House,” hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Barbara Kingsolver
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27,138 ratings
    • Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

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    • One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes
    • By: Jessica Pan
    • Narrated by: Jessica Pan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Fredrik Backman
    • Narrated by: Marin Ireland
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,923 ratings
    • Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage....

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    • Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And How Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.)
    • By: Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Michael Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • Anyone - even you! - can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business....

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    • Essays
    • By: Alexandra Petri
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency....

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    • And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
    • By: Tom Papa
    • Narrated by: Tom Papa
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • Tom Papa is a little worried about you. You seem stressed, overworked, and, frankly, a little mixed up. Everyone is fighting an overwhelming feeling that things are getting worse, that we should be doing more, that we're not good enough. Well, life isn't perfect....

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    • By: Karen Dolby
    • Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II is a celebration of the Queen's reign through some of her wittiest, most sarcastic and most humorous observations....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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    • 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 1,106 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Cat Shook
    • Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a late-night talk show—for fans of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld....

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    • How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work
    • By: Jesse David Fox
    • Narrated by: Jesse David Fox
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedy’s boom—and its magic....

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    • By: Nora Ephron
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays to her best-selling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America's most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers....

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