Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Thaddeus Stevens

By: Hans L. Trefousse

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive "dictator of Congress," out to punish the South at the behest of big business and... Read more

Called to the Fire

By: Cheston M. Bush

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The last place on earth young Charles Johnson wanted to go was Mississippi during the heat of the Civil Rights Movement.“Me and the Lord had a talk all the way all those miles. ‘Lord, I have seen those dogs eatin’ those people up! I have seen them lock the doors, Lord.’ When I got there I looked for black people to be hangin’ from street... Read more

Just a Mo

By: Laila Morse

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire. Read more

Data, A Love Story

By: Amy Webb

Narrated by: Amy Webb & Brian Woolf

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, thought-provoking memoir about how one woman "gamed" online dating sites like JDate, OKCupid and eHarmony – and met her eventual husband.

After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn’t that her standards were too high, as women are often told, but that she... Read more

Unknown Pleasures

By: Peter Hook

Narrated by: Peter Hook

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer... Read more

Remembering Whitney

By: Cissy Houston

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death — complete with never-before-seen photographs — from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston.Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney’s heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens... Read more

The Wise Men

By: Walter Isaacson & E. Thomas

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates... Read more

Congressman Lincoln

By: Chris DeRose

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of an Abraham Lincoln many Americans aren't at all
familiar with: Lincoln as a reluctant husband in an abusive
relationship; Lincoln who came within moments of fighting a duel with a
political adversary; the first and only president to patent an
invention; and the first future president to argue before the Supreme Court.

Though... Read more

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

By: Neil White

Narrated by: Taber Burns

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. “Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children,” she explained. But it wasn't camp . . .Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money... Read more

Fresh Off the Boat

By: Eddie Huang

Narrated by: Eddie Huang

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People
 
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and... Read more

The Soul of It All

By: Michael Bolton

Narrated by: Michael Bolton

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his... Read more

Rome's Last Citizen

By: Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with... Read more

Alone on the Ice

By: David Roberts & Jenny Piening

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: The Life of America's 16th President

By: Gary Jeffrey & Kate Petty

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in 1809. It looked like he would be a simple farmer, but Abe loved books and read anything he could get his hands on. In time, he became a successful lawyer and started getting attention as a politician. Known as a brilliant speaker, Abe impressed enough people to become the 16th president in... Read more

Drinking with Men

By: Rosie Schaap

Narrated by: Rosie Schaap

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars.Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the... Read more

The Disaster Diaries

By: Sam Sheridan

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, worked as a professional wilderness firefighter, an EMT, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will likely ensue,... Read more

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde

By: Rebecca Dana

Narrated by: Rebecca Dana

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as... Read more

May I Be Happy

By: Cyndi Lee

Narrated by: Cyndi Lee

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

How can I help others grow and transform if I haven’t done it myself...?" Cyndi Lee asks in the opening pages of her memoir, May I Be Happy, where she makes a surprising revelation. In spite of her success in physically demanding professions - dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher - Lee was caught in a lifelong cycle of repetitive... Read more

12 Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years... Read more

Francona: The Red Sox Years

By: Terry Francona & Dan Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From famed baseball manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure with the storied Boston Red Sox

From 2004 to 2011, Terry "Tito" Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In Francona the legendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they... Read more

Saturday Night Widows

By: Becky Aikman

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.

   In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world.  In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and,... Read more

Madam Secretary

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 24 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of... Read more

The Inventor and the Tycoon

By: Edward Ball

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
 
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more

First Lady of Song

By: Geoffrey Mark Fidelman

Narrated by: Geoffrey Mark Fidelman

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella Fitzgerald. The name alone conjures up images of the Savoy Ballroom; of the Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie bands; of hot jazz, sweet ballads, and a genuinely unique presence. Ella Fitzgerald, an artist who has been called a national treasure—and no one has disputed the laudation—has captivated an international audience for more... Read more