Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Oddly Normal

By: John Schwartz

Narrated by: John Schwartz & Joseph Schwartz

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: His thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was... Read more

Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways

By: Sean Magee

Narrated by: Alex Jennings & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

‘For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never... Read more

American Lady

By: Caroline De Margerie

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An American aristocrat—a descendant of founding father John Jay—Susan Mary Alsop (1918–2004) with husband, Joe Alsop, brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. Henry Kissinger remarked that more agreements were concluded in her living room than in the White House.

Born in Rome, brought up in Argentina... Read more

Mon voyage de pêche - Abridged

By: Jean-Marie Lapointe

Narrated by: Jean-Marie Lapointe

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un jour, tout bascula. Ce jour-là, malgré les blessures et l'aigreur des incompréhensions mutuelles, tous deux finirent par s'avouer l'un à l'autre qu'ils s'étaient aimés, qu'ils s'aimaient encore et qu'ils s'aimeraient toujours. Read more

Hallucinations

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 3

By: William Manchester & Paul Reid

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 53 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, Defender of the Realm, the third volume of William Manchester’s The Last Lion, picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill portrayed by Manchester and Reid is a man of indomitable courage,... Read more

Marmee and Louisa

By: Eve LaPlante

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its release nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women has been a mainstay in American literature, while passionate Jo March and her calm, beloved "Marmee" have shaped generations of young women. Biographers have consistently credited her father, Bronson Alcott, for Louisa's professional success,... Read more

How I Slept My Way to the Middle

By: Kevin Pollak

Narrated by: Kevin Pollak

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, he’s a killer impressionist—Falk, Shatner, Walken, Nicholson—a versatile actor with one of the most respected filmographies around, and an Internet... Read more

Going to Sea in a Sieve

By: Danny Baker

Narrated by: Danny Baker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.

'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of... Read more

My Heart Is Boundless

By: Eve LaPlante

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Women's "Marmee" is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fiction—Louisa May Alcott's own mother, Abigail—has for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were burned by her daughter and husband, as they claimed, and that little additional... Read more

Untouchable

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 28 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”—Los Angeles Times“A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.”—People“A tale of family, fame, lost childhood,... Read more

Ike's Bluff

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple... Read more

Train Tracks

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A marvelous storyteller.”
—The New Yorker“A blazing flamethrower of truth.”
—Ted Nugent, Washington TimesA #1 New York Times bestselling author and superstar radio personality, Michael Savage is admired by millions for his tough talk and no-punches-pulled common sense about the state of our union and its leaders. In Train Tracks, a more personal... Read more

Custer

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry crafts works synonymous with the grandeur and beauty of the American West. Here McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little... Read more

Bitter Brew

By: William Knoedelseder

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The engrossing, often scandalous saga of one of the wealthiest, longest-lasting, and most colorful family dynasties in the history of American commerce—a cautionary tale about prosperity, profligacy, hubris, and the blessings and dark consequences of success.From countless bar signs, stadium scoreboards, magazine ads, TV commercials, and... Read more

Until We All Come Home

By: Kim de Blecourt

Narrated by: Kim de Blecourt

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service... Read more

Buddy

By: Brian McGrory

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian's only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two... Read more

Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times

By: Katie Savage

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times, author Katie Savage beckons you to join her as she embraces the mystery of faith and gently eases into the sometimes turbulent waters of contemplative exploration. She writes with honesty and humor about the uncertainty and doubt that is inherent in the life of the growing believer, finding that even in the... Read more

Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter

By: Melissa Francis

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world’s most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. Despite her age, she was already a veteran actress, living... Read more

Shirley Williams

By: Shirley Williams

Narrated by: Shirley Williams

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

With recollections from childhood to the present, written and recorded for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Shirley Williams describes her life as one of Britain's foremost political women this century. She describes her early life with her pioneering pacifist mother, Vera Brittain; her father, George Caitlin and her mother's friend, the writer... Read more

Last Train to Memphis

By: Peter Guralnick

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 22 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.
A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award
"Elvis steps from the pages. You can... Read more

Careless Love

By: Peter Guralnick

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 31 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "a masterwork" by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.

Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award

Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of... Read more

A Gift of Hope

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine.For eleven years, Danielle Steel... Read more

The Liberator

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.

   From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily,... Read more