Biography & Memoir audiobooks

My Cross to Bear

By: Gregg Allman

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

For the first time, rock music icon Gregg Allman, one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, tells the full story of his life and career in My Cross to Bear. No subject is taboo, as one of the true giants of rock ’n’ roll opens up about his Georgia youth, his long struggle with substance abuse, his string of bad marriages... Read more

A Disposition to Be Rich

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ferdinand Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his generation—a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street, who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to... Read more

Jeneration X

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jen Lancaster

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to date: acting her age.

Jen is finally ready to put away childish things (except her Barbie Styling... Read more

Lone Survivor

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a... Read more

SEAL of God

By: Chad Williams

Narrated by: Chad Williams

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." —John 15:13. Just days before Chad Williams was scheduled to report for basic training at the Great Lakes naval base, he turned on the television and was greeted with the horrifying image of his mentor and training partner, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally... Read more

John Le Carré In His Own Words

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

John le Carré was a bestselling author whose books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

On this recording we hear - in his own words - about being brought up by his grandparents and feeling deserted by his mother and father. He talks about being creative as a means of escapism, by telling stories about his... Read more

Restaurant Man

By: Joe Bastianich

Narrated by: Joe Bastianich

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How does a nice Italian boy from Queens turn his passion for food and wine into a nationwide empire? In his intrepid, irreverent, and terrifically entertaining memoir, Restaurant Man, Joe Bastianich charts his remarkable culinary journey from his parents’ neighborhood eatery to becoming one of the country’s most successful restaurateurs, along... Read more

Steve Redgrave In His Own Words

By: Steve Redgrave

Narrated by: Steve Redgrave

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Steve Redgrave is a former British rower who won five Gold Medals in five successive Olympic Games. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about why he retired after the Olympic Games in Atlanta, yet returned for his fifth victory in Sydney. He discusses his early days rowing and his post-race emotions, and memories of his last... Read more

The Admirals

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy... Read more

The Passage of Power

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 32 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career — 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that... Read more

Effie

By: Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Narrated by: Sophie Ward

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais,... Read more

Unraveling Anne

By: Laurel Saville

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“After all, this is my mother we’re talking about. As her daughter, I belonged to her; as my mother, she also belongs to me. I don’t have her anymore, but I still have her story.”In 1950s Los Angeles, Anne Ford was the epitome of the California golden girl, a former beauty queen and model-turned-fashion designer whose success and charm were... Read more

Both of Us

By: Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco & Kent Carroll

Narrated by: Ryan O'Neal

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

RYAN O’NEAL AND FARRAH FAWCETT.
One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has captivated fans and media alike for more than three decades. Fans of each other from afar, Ryan and Farrah met through her husband, Lee Majors, and fell passionately in love. Soon, however, reality threatened their happiness and they... Read more

John Gielgud In His Own Words

By: John Gielgud

Narrated by: John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Gielgud was one of his generation's leading actors, who won an Academy Award. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about his family and childhood, deciding to be an actor and his first confident performance. He discusses understudying Noël Coward and failing as Romeo, playing Hamlet for the first time and working with other... Read more

Beryl Reid In Her Own Words

By: Beryl Reid

Narrated by: Beryl Reid

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Beryl Reid, OBE, (1919-1996) was one of Britain's much-loved comedy actresses. She won a BAFTA for Best Actress and received a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards.

In this collection we hear - in her own words - about other funny women, as well as some of her well-known roles in The Belles of St Trinian's and Smiley's... Read more

Why Me?

By: Sarah Burleton

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerIn the blink of an eye, Mom ran up behind me and pushed me into the fence. Instinctively, I reached out my arms to stop my fall and ended up grabbing the live fence. My hands clamped around the thin wires, and my body collapsed to the ground as the electricity coursed through it. I opened my eyes and saw my mother... Read more

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

By: Sissy Spacek

Narrated by: Sissy Spacek

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and... Read more

Rather Outspoken

By: Dan Rather

Narrated by: Dan Rather

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An in-depth memoir from famed newsman Dan Rather, who looks back over his storied and sometimes controversial career and reveals his personal thoughts and reflections.

This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his... Read more

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

By: Andrew Carnegie

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant, a poor boy who worked in a cotton mill, a man who amassed a great fortune as a steel baron and then became one of the most generous and influential philanthropists the world has ever known. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired philanthropists and philanthropic enterprises for... Read more

The Drunk Diet

By: Lüc Carl

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With his trademark rock 'n' roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant—a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his rock 'n' roll dreams—until, suddenly,... Read more

Two Americans

By: William Lee Miller

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed.  Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri-Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat, pigs and... Read more

Caliente, Apasionado, Ilegal?

By: Cristian de la Fuente

Narrated by: Marcelo Rodriguez

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Tan pronto entre al cuarto para mi primera entrevista con los productores de Dancing with the Stars, uno de ellos dijo, "oPor que no estas bailando?" Mire a mi alrededor. No habia musica. "Perdon, oEntre cuando no debia?" No tenia la mas remota idea de que estaban hablando. Todos se rieron, y me explicaron, "Tu eres Latino, asi que creiamos que... Read more

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful... Read more

Legends in Sports: Michael Jordan

By: Matt Christopher

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss this action-packed and informative look at the life and achievements of a basketball legend!Matt Christopher, the number one sports writer for kids, profiles basketball superstar Michael Jordan, covering his childhood, college career, rookie years, professional career highlights, and even his short stint in minor league baseball.... Read more