Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .

By: Rachel Dratch

Narrated by: Rachel Dratch

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After... Read more

My Two Moms

By: Bruce Littlefield & Zach Wahls

Narrated by: Kris Koscheski

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public forum regarding civil unions. The nineteen-year-old son of a same-sex couple, Wahls proudly proclaimed, "The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character." Hours later, his speech was posted on YouTube, where it went... Read more

Jeffanory

By: Jeff Stelling

Narrated by: Jeff Stelling

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you sitting comfortably? Then Jeff will begin ... The universally-loved, award-winning host of Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday and Channel 4's Countdown, and author of the bestselling Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly, returns with a Jackanory-style, football-flavoured narrative which gathers together the funniest, weirdest, most tragic, most... Read more

Orwell

By: Michael Shelden

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwell’s personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary... Read more

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.
 
As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short... Read more

After Camelot

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 21 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious and sweeping account, Taraborelli continues the family chronicle begun with his bestselling Jackie, Ethel, Joan and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the... Read more

Prague Winter

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles TimesDrawn... Read more

My Happy Days in Hollywood

By: Garry Marshall

Narrated by: Garry Marshall

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall was among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big... Read more

Farther Away

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound... Read more

Stirling Moss In His Own Words

By: Stirling Moss

Narrated by: Stirling Moss

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Stirling Moss, OBE, was a legendary British racing driver. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about his family and upbringing, on starting out and his early career choices, and why he became a racing driver.

He discusses being a businessman, his relationships and the bittersweet feelings that occur with racing. He also touches on... Read more

The Presidents Club

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.

The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated... Read more

Driving Mr. Yogi

By: Harvey Araton

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch the young players. They talk shop. They eat dinner together and tease each other mercilessly. They trade stories about the greats they have met... Read more

Never Say Never

By: Ricki Lake

Narrated by: Ricki Lake

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved teen star, talk-show host, and media personality, an uplifting and revelatory memoir about turning forty, losing weight, and learning to reinvent oneself at any age.

Ricki Lake’s life has been a series of rebirths—from fat to skinny, married to divorced, rich to poor, and more. In her intimate, bold, and relatable book, Ricki... Read more

You Have No Idea

By: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams

Narrated by: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss AmericaWhen Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She’d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward she’d get her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and then... Read more

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

By: Jenny Lawson

Narrated by: Jenny Lawson

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and... Read more

Crossing the Borders of Time

By: Leslie Maitland

Narrated by: Leslie Maitland

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees—the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbors. Then, barred... Read more

In the Water They Can't See You Cry

By: Amanda Beard & Rebecca Paley

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

At the tender age of fourteen, Amanda Beard walked onto the pool deck at the Atlanta Olympics carrying her teddy bear, Harold, and left with two silvers and a gold medal. She competed in three more Olympic games, winning a total of seven medals, and enjoyed a lucrative modeling career on the side. At one point, she was the most downloaded female... Read more

Dear Theo

By: Vincent van Gogh

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these... Read more

Cuckoo in the Nest

By: Nat Luurtsema

Narrated by: Nat Luurtsema

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Keep your enemies close, your family less so...

Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus and washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents' doorstep. It was only for a month, she assured them, if that.. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months, while the housing market... Read more

Over the Moon

By: David Essex

Narrated by: David Essex

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young schoolboy, David Essex dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, and was signed up by his beloved West Ham United, but as a teenager he developed a passion for music which set him on a very different path, and ultimately led to superstardom.

It wasn't, however, an easy start. Scraping a living on the edges of show business was a... Read more

The Mayor of MacDougal Street

By: Dave Van Ronk

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Now the inspiration for a major motion picture written and directed by the Coen brothersDave Van Ronk was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the ’60s, he was also... Read more

Drop Dead Healthy

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, a chronicle of A.J. Jacob’s mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind—from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.

From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in... Read more

Ninety Days

By: Zachary Lazar

Narrated by: Zachary Lazar

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily... Read more

A Natural Woman

By: Carole King

Narrated by: Carole King

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the New York Times Bestselling memoir that is "revealing, humble, and cool-aunt chatty" about the incredible life that inspired the hit Broadway musical Beautiful (Rolling Stone). Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of... Read more