Memoir Essays

Product List
    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: CJ Hauser
    • Narrated by: CJ Hauser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature
    • By: Bill Roorbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • Essays
    • By: Ziwe
    • Narrated by: Ziwe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind functions” (New York Magazine)....

    Regular price: $14.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.95 or 1 credit

    • 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 1,832 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....

    Regular price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

    Regular price: $29.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $29.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Damon Young
    • Narrated by: Damon Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him....

    Regular price: $27.89 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $27.89 or 1 credit

    • The Complete Crônicas
    • By: Clarice Lispector
    • Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
    • Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés....

    Regular price: $22.93 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.93 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Memoir
    • By: Lamya H
    • Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown.

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan....

    Regular price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'N' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N' Roll
    • By: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus....

    Regular price: $20.88 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.88 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
    • By: Jen Mann
    • Narrated by: Jen Mann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • A debut collection of witty, biting essays laced with a surprising warmth, from Jen Mann, the writer behind the popular blog People I Want to Punch in the Throat...

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,134 ratings
    • David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

    Regular price: $14.81 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.81 or 1 credit

    • On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
    • By: Elena Ferrante
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter....

    Regular price: $11.90 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.90 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

    Regular price: $19.90 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.90 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Essays
    • By: Elissa Washuta
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Juicy Collection of Essays
    • By: Rachel Kramer Bussel
    • Narrated by: Rose Caraway
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Sex and Cupcakes is a collection of essays from writer Rachel Kramer Bussel reflecting on her years as a sex columnist and cupcake blogger....

    Regular price: $2.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $2.99 or 1 credit

    • 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 8,809 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

    Regular price: $11.66 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.66 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $20.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.99 or 1 credit

    • 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 1,704 ratings
    • Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband....

    Regular price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.29 or 1 credit

    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Kelly McMasters
    • Narrated by: Kelly McMasters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Kelly McMasters found herself in her mid-thirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit