The best friends are the ones who can deliver the perfect deadpan one liner, make you laugh until you’re doubled over, and still have a lot of heart. Meet your new favorite pals in these audiobooks of essays by Black authors that are simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny, sharp, and poignant. READ MORE
How do we love thee, Betty White? Let us count the ways: Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, animal activist, national treasure, unofficial dimples hall-of-famer, and Best Spoken Word Album GRAMMY Award winner for her 2011 audiobook memoir, If You Ask Me. READ MORE
In this episode, meet the CEO of Gumroad Sahil Lavingia, author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur, artist Danny Casale (aka Coolman Coffeedan), author of Ur Special, and creator of PhD Comics Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson, co-authors of Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe. READ MORE
In this episode, meet bestselling author, actress, comedian, and producer Phoebe Robinson, author of Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, one of Silicon Valley’s youngest entrepreneurs Michael Sayman, author of App Kid, and mountaineer and adventurer Rick Ridgeway, author of Life Lived Wild. READ MORE
Forget apple picking, pluck one of the funniest books of the season from the bushel and take a bite! From rambles through the great outdoors to the inner-workings of Slack (and every situation in between), these audiobooks contain big hearts alongside their big laughs. READ MORE
Updated from the original June 2019 post
Friends, readers, listeners: lend me your beers. Bottled, canned, or pulled ice-cold from a tap. Craft brewed, microbrewed, macrobrewed, abbey brewed, homebrewed, brewed by elves. Lagers, Pilsners, Stouts, Wheats, IPAs. Whatever your sud, summer is the time to match it with a palate-perfect audiobook bud. READ MORE
Read hard, play hard. Scratch that: let’s do both. This summer, book nerds everywhere are pulling the ultimate mental #VanLife and listening to audiobooks that feel good and travel well. READ MORE
Beloved and prolific multihyphenate Seth Rogen leads a full cast of more than 80 narrators for the audiobook of his debut collection of hilarious and insightful personal essays, Yearbook. READ MORE
Academy Award®-winning actor Cate Blanchett joins author Lauren Hough in narrating the audiobook edition of Hough’s Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing. READ MORE
In this episode, go behind the mic with Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, author of Greenlights, actor and humorist Nick Offerman, author of All Rise, and Tony Award-winning song writer Anaïs Mitchell, author of Working on a Song. READ MORE