Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Marissa Mayer with Josh Tyrangiel

By: Marissa Mayer

Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Marissa Mayer talks with Josh Tyrangiel about her childhood in Wisconsin, her experience as one of the few women in the Stanford Computer Science department at Princeton to the early days of Google. It was recorded in March 27, 2012, months before she became CEO of Yahoo. Read more

The Big Miss

By: Hank Haney

Narrated by: Hank Haney

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain. He was with Tiger 110 days a year, spoke to him over 200... Read more

Hitler

By: A. N. Wilson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious figures. In it, Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of the life of the “ultimate demon-tyrant of history.”In 1923, thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler was languishing in prison after leading an unsuccessful... Read more

Patton

By: Martin Blumenson

Narrated by: William Lavelle

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent biography by the world’s foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known—and feared—by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of... Read more

Two Rings

By: Eve Keller & Millie Werber

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet... Read more

Rommel

By: Charles Messenger

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Modeled on the acclaimed Great Generals Series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, World Generals broadens the scope to include the world’s finest military leaders. Each volume includes a foreword by General Wesley K. Clark and is coedited with an afterword by a different foreign general.This exciting series... Read more

Dropped Names

By: Frank Langella

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured... Read more

Hell Above Earth

By: Stephen Frater

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hell Above Earth tells an unforgettable story of two World War II American bomber pilots who forged an unexpected but enduring bond in the flak-filled skies over Nazi Germany. But there's a twist: one of them was related to the head of the Luftwaffe, Reich Marshal Herman Goering, and the other had secret orders from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover... Read more

Fighting the Flying Circus

By: Eddie V. Rickenbacker

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots that included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. Captain Rickenbacker... Read more

Betrayal

By: Robert Fitzpatrick & Jon Land

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn't tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country's deadliest gangsters. Relentless in his desire to catch, prosecute, and convict Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation's most determined cop-gangster battle... Read more

All Fired Up

By: Malcolm Castle

Narrated by: Dean Williamson

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing about the county fire service was quite what Malcolm expected when he joined the watch in Shrewsbury. As the newest member of the service he was first in line when swans terrorised the high street - and when a flock of owls got stuck on the roof of his local pub. Eighteen years old and more than ready to rush into burning buildings to... Read more

Some Assembly Required

By: Anne Lamott & Sam Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott & Sam Lamott

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

“If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.”—Time

In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a... Read more

It's Not About the Pom-Poms

By: Laura Vikmanis & Amy Sohn

Narrated by: Laura Vikmanis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A forty-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all wrong. . . .
 
Laura Vikmanis has got spirit . . . and pom-poms, too! But before she stepped onto the field as the oldest cheerleader in the National Football... Read more

Wild

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
 
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon... Read more

Tough Sh*t

By: Kevin Smith

Narrated by: Kevin Smith

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store,... Read more

A Century of Wisdom

By: Caroline Stoessinger

Narrated by: Linda Korn

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism.
 
Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice... Read more

The Rules of Inheritance

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.

At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against... Read more

Knave of Spades

By: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature.

But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales... Read more

The One

By: R.J. Smith

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Senior editor at L.A. Magazine, RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century's most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown's rise from... Read more

The Other Side of Suffering

By: John Ramsey

Narrated by: John Ramsey

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again.

Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, social position, a loving family. And like Job, Ramsey was destined for great affliction, as many of the most precious things in his life were cruelly taken from him.

First came the death of his... Read more

Island of Vice

By: Richard Zacks

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICE

In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with... Read more

Saint Patrick, The Banner, The Hat, and the FBI

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day! Alphie McCourt, author of the convivial memoir A Long Stone's Throw and youngest brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), releases his reminiscences of the beloved holiday. This story, written and read by the author, strings together retellings of a few of the expatriate Irishman's most memorable Saint... Read more

The Wedding

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jews and Irish Catholics did not often marry each other in the 1970s. Lynn and I did. A few mishaps, an AWOL rabbi, a long delay and a riotous reception, all combined for a hugely memorable day." Read more

The Holey Pants

By: Alphie McCourt

Narrated by: Alphie McCourt

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the lanes of Limerick to the bejeweled and glittering women of the Upper East Side; that's quite a stretch, but please, not too far. I had a hole in my pants. In New York, everything is possible." Read more