Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Carta al padre

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Irene Gamarra

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Carta al padre" de Franz Kafka es una carta autobiográfica escrita en 1919 y publicada póstumamente. En ella, Kafka se dirige a su padre, Hermann Kafka, y expone la compleja y conflictiva relación que mantuvieron. La carta revela el profundo impacto que el carácter autoritario y crítico de su padre tuvo en su vida y en su obra literaria. Kafka... Read more

The Presidents of World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be America’s greatest 20th century president, but there’s no question that he was the most unique. A well-connected relative of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was groomed for greatness until he was struck down by polio. Nevertheless, he persevered, rising through New York politics to reach the White House just as the... Read more

Swinging On The Garden Gate

By: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Narrated by: Jenna Rose Stein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual by award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew. Every story begins with a word. As a young woman, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew carried a word within her so potent that it spread through her every artery and vein. She carried it in secret until she was shown a different way and... Read more

Establishing the Elizabethan Age

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 450 years after his reign, Henry VIII is still the most famous and recognizable King of England, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. Though well regarded by contemporaries as a learned king and "one of the most charismatic rulers to sit on the English throne", he is best remembered today for his gluttony and multiple marriages, particularly... Read more

Мае Акадэміі

By: Аляксандар Вайтовіч

Narrated by: Аляксандар Вайтовіч

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Cучасныя мэмуары. Чытае аўтар. Упершыню прагучалі на хвалях Радыё Свабода з 09.12.2005 па 11.01.2006. Read more

The Maverick Effect

By: Harish Mehta

Narrated by: P. Mathai Abraham

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'The customs officer told me that I needed to leave samples of what I was exporting with him. I was forced to leave the floppy disk of the software with him. The diligent officer immediately planted a stapler pin through the floppy disk and attached it to the form, thereby destroying the media and rendering it unreadable. For the longest time,... Read more

秦始皇传奇（下卷）

By: 石家兴

Narrated by: 石家兴

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

秦始皇嬴政，登基后迅速展现出其非凡的治国才能，他统一了全国，建立了中央集权，统一了货币、度量衡和文字，为后世奠定了坚实的基础，做出了不可磨灭的贡献。《秦始皇传奇：天下一统》将带您继续见证这位伟大帝王的辉煌与落幕。
嬴政不仅是雄才大略的统治者，也是一个追求长生不老的皇帝。他到处求仙寻药，却多次受骗，甚至在泰山封禅之时遭到儒生讥讽，最终引发了焚书坑儒的惨剧。为抵御北方匈奴，他命人建造了举世闻名的万里长城；为满足奢华享受，他建造了宏伟的阿房宫和直道，然而这些工程却导致了民众的苦难，苛捐杂税使得民不聊生。
秦始皇在一次求仙的途中因病驾崩，权臣赵高乘机弄权，将江山交给了昏庸无能的胡亥，最终导致了天下大乱，秦国迅速走向灭亡。
通过这部有声书，您将全方位了解秦始皇一生的辉煌与悲剧，感受他在治国理政和个人追... Read more

The KLF

By: John Higgs

Narrated by: John Higgs

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early ’90s, the KLF was the biggest-selling singles band in the world—until they destroyed their records, erased themselves from music history, and literally set fire to one million pounds.In this fascinating and in-depth biography, popular British writer and cultural historian John Higgs digs into the story behind the end of one of the... Read more

The Color of Everything

By: Cory Richards

Narrated by: Cory Richards

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights.

“An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Becoming Nicole

“In order to escape madness, I will live madly. I... Read more

To Be a Problem

By: Dara Baldwin

Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color

For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are made. Disenfranchisement of people of color and... Read more

The Life and Times of Bill Williamson

By: Bill Williamson

Narrated by: Dalan Decker

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Williamson definitely had a rough start at life. His mother went through many complications while pregnant with him, and he spent much time in the hospital as a child for his health issues, including being seriously hearing impaired. As a partially deaf child, Bill received a lot of ridicule for his hearing impairment, and thus many... Read more

Wingless Victory

By: Anthony Richardson

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of an airman's audacious escape from occupied France in World War Two.



Perfect for fans of The Great Escape, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram, and The Wooden Horse.



Sir Basil Embry's Blenheim bomber was shot down in the summer of 1940.



During the course of his time in enemy territory he broke out from a column of prisoners while... Read more

Other Rivers

By: Peter Hessler

Narrated by: Peter Hessler

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century

More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to... Read more

Who Killed The President?

By: Brian Gibson

Narrated by: John Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States as President and the country's youngest and first Catholic leader. His singularity foreshadowed a sort of challenge to his presidency from the start. Many people were taken aback by his assassination. It was the height of the Cold War and the United States' involvement in Vietnam. John... Read more

Mis inventos

By: Nikola Tesla

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“El instinto es algo que trasciende el conocimiento” Nikola Tesla.ADÉNTRATE EN LA MENTE DE UN VISIONARIO.A través de sus propias palabras, Nikola Tesla nos lleva en un viaje desde su infancia en el Imperio Austrohúngaro, pasando por sus años de formación y sus primeras invenciones, hasta sus logros más notables en los Estados Unidos colaborando... Read more

Legendary

By: Dick LeBeau, Scott Brown & George Von Benko

Narrated by: Todd Menesses, Dick LeBeau, Troy Polamalu & Jam...

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook edition features narration from Pittsburgh Steelers greats: Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu, 5-time Pro Bowler James Harrison, and coach Dick LeBeau himself. To most NFL fans, Dick LeBeau is known as a football lifer, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and mastermind behind the revolutionary zone blitz defense. But to Pittsburgh... Read more

One Last Lunch

By: Erica Heller

Narrated by: Kim Niemi & Paul Woodson

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists, and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished.



A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to... Read more

The Secret Lives of Numbers

By: Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell

Narrated by: Daphne Kouma

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories.""A book to make you love math."" —Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told... Read more

Carrie Carolyn Coco

By: Sarah Gerard

Narrated by: Sarah Gerard

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death?personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable?as “nuanced and subtly intimate” (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.   On the night of September... Read more

True Gretch

By: Gretchen Whitmer

Narrated by: Gretchen Whitmer

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot.

When Gretchen Whitmer was... Read more

More, Please

By: Emma Specter

Narrated by: Erin deWard

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

AS FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE!""Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart."" —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writerAn unflinching and deeply... Read more

A Season for That

By: Steve Hoffman

Narrated by: Steve Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.
 
Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been... Read more

Short Poems of John Milton

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Short Poems of John Milton
With a preface by Samuel Thurber
Narrated by Denis Daly
While the issues of the day that consumed the attention of scholar, accomplished linguist, politician and severe Puritan, John Milton (1608 - 1674) are now largely of historical interest, the verse which they inspired remains a staple of English literature. ... Read more

Instructions to His Son

By: Sr. Walter Raleigh

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Instructions to his Son
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Narrated by Denis Daly
During his long internment in the Tower of London Elizabethan adventurer and statesman Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618) took time to compose this thoughtful homily to his son. It consists of ten short chapters dealing with a variety of important issues such as the choice of... Read more