Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Song of Bernadette

By: Franz Werfel

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Song of Bernadette is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest novels of triumphant religious faith. How the book came to be written is itself an inspirational and even miraculous story.In 1940, famed Austrian author Franz Werfel and his wife were on a desperate flight from the Nazi invaders, whom Franz had publicly denounced.... Read more

My Beloved World

By: Sonia Sotomayor

Narrated by: Rita Moreno

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary... Read more

The Heavy

By: Dara-Lynn Weiss

Narrated by: Amanda Tepe

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
 
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how could a woman with... Read more

I, Rhoda

By: Valerie Harper

Narrated by: Valerie Harper

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

2014 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author

The heartwarming memoir of beloved television actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda.

Valerie Harper was an unknown actress when she won the groundbreaking role of Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Tyler Moore’s lovable and... Read more

Ten Years Later

By: Hoda Kotb

Narrated by: Hoda Kotb

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a New York Times bestseller, in Ten Years Later, Today show coanchor Hoda Kotb tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere—and even thrive—and asks, What if you, facing a game-changing event or decision right now, could see ten years into the future?

New York Times... Read more

The Backyard Parables

By: Margaret Roach

Narrated by: Margaret Roach

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more.

After ruminating on the bigger... Read more

E Street Shuffle

By: author

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he was the swaggering, stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was a brooding introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band. Clinton Heylin's revelatory biography, E Street Shuffle, chronicles the evolution and influence of Springsteen's E Street Band as they rose from... Read more

The Prince of Beers

By: Alex Berenson

Narrated by: Alex Berenson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

August Busch IV had everything - or seemed to. In 2006, Busch became the chief executive of Anheuser-Busch, the sixth member of his family to control the legendary brewery. At age 42, Busch was handsome, wealthy, married to a beautiful woman, and running one of the biggest companies in America. Two years later, Busch lost control of... Read more

Magical Journey

By: Katrina Kenison

Narrated by: Katrina Kenison

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day comes an intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth that will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to create something new in my life?"​

"No longer indispensable, no longer assured of our... Read more

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more

She Matters

By: Susanna Sonnenberg

Narrated by: Susanna Sonnenberg

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling “immensely gifted” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) author of Her Last Death comes a fearless, compulsively readable, intensely provocative book about female friendships.

THE BEST FRIEND WHO BROKE UP WITH YOU. The older girl at school you worshipped. The friend who betrayed you. The friend you betrayed. Companions in... Read more

My Share of the Task

By: General Stanley McChrystal

Narrated by: Kevin Collins

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Never shall I fail my comrades. . . . I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.” —from the Ranger Creed In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural... Read more

Rescue Me

By: Melissa Wareham

Narrated by: Melissa Wareham

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised she'd have to start at the bottom, cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home.

From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk who've lost their favourite hound, it seemed that at some point everyone passes through Battersea's... Read more

JFK: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President. But, barely one thousand days into his Presidency, he was assassinated. JFK in an Hour provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of this man credited with introducing an aspirational new approach to American... Read more

Stalin: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his... Read more

Henry VIII’s Wives: History in an Hour

By: Julie Wheeler

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In his ambition to provide a male heir to the throne, Henry VIII married six times. Divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, caused England’s break from the Catholic church in Rome. He went on to divorce Anne of Cleves and behead Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard... Read more

Not Young, Still Restless

By: Jeanne Cooper

Narrated by: Jeanne Cooper

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited memoir from one of daytime television's most celebrated and beloved actresses.Three or four days a week, Jeanne Cooper drives from her Hollywood Hills home to the job she's held for more than three decades: bringing life to the character of Katherine Chancellor, the outspoken, powerful, and insanely wealthy force of nature who,... Read more

The King Years

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Leslie Jr, Odom

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy—Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan’s Edge.

Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his... Read more

Do Life

By: Ben Davis

Narrated by: Jonny Loquasto

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 22, Ben Davis weighed over 360 pounds. Depressed, addicted to food, and morbidly obese, he thought he’d lost all hope. But after a Christmas Eve conversation with his grandmother, Ben promised himself that he would finally take control of his life.

Ben decided to “do life,” and so can you.

He started running—slowly at first,... Read more

Sternstunden der Menschheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Stefan Kaminsky

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Sternstunden der Menschheit" erzählt Stefan Zweig 14 historische Begebenheiten, deren Auswirkungen die Geschichte der Menschheit verändert haben. Read more

Bend, Not Break

By: Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace,... Read more

Coming of Age in Mississippi

By: Anne Moody

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the... Read more

Never Goin' Back

By: Al Roker

Narrated by: Al Roker

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Al Roker’s aha! moment came a decade ago. He was closing in on 350 pounds when he promised his dying father that he wasn’t going to keep living as he was. That led to his decision for a stomach bypass—and his life-changing drop to 190. But fifty of those pounds gradually crept back until he finally devised a plan, stuck to it, and got his life... Read more

The Wisdom of Compassion

By: H. H. Dalai Lama & Victor Chan

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wisdom of Compassion offers rare insights into the Dalai Lama’s life and his efforts to translate compassion into action through deeply engaging, behind-the-scene stories about his interactions with remarkable people from all walks of life.

This is the Dalai Lama at his most human, and most humane. We see how he approaches the world with... Read more