Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Kingdom of Fear

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a rebel—from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances.Brilliant,... Read more

Turing's Cathedral

By: George Dyson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first... Read more

The Secret Piano

By: Zhu Xiao-Mei

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Zhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post-war China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Taught to play the piano by her mother, she developed quickly into a prodigy, immersing herself in the work of classical masters like Bach and Brahms. She was just eleven years old when she began a rigorous course of study... Read more

Don't Put Me In, Coach

By: Mark Titus

Narrated by: Tyler Seiple

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the... Read more

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is considered... Read more

Winter King

By: Thomas Penn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors—the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty—filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIIINear the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered... Read more

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey

By: The Countess of Carnarvon

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award–winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle,... Read more

Immortal Bird

By: Doron Weber

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Doron Weber delivers an affecting, unforgettable account of his struggle to protect his remarkable son. Born with a congenital heart defect, Damon Weber proves a source of constant inspiration to his parents even as his father Doron searches relentlessly for a breakthrough to resolve a condition that seems destined to claim Damon's life. Living... Read more

Where Have I Gone?

By: Pauline Quirke

Narrated by: Pauline Quirke

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Pauline Quirke was a skinny child, a slim teenager, a curvy woman, then ­- according to her bathroom scales (curse them) - just plain fat. Yes, the 'F' word. Tipping the scales at nearly 20 stone, with creaking knees and a dodgy ankle to boot, at the beginning of 2011 Pauline had reached a crisis point. Something had to change, and fast.

It was... Read more

Touching The Void

By: Joe Simpson

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott & Daniel Weyman

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For... Read more

Derek Jacobi In His Own Words

By: Derek Jacobi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Derek Jacobi is an award-winning actor who is famous for his many roles on television, film and on stage. He received a Tony Award for his performance as Benedick in the RSC's production of Much Ado About Nothing and is probably most famous for his TV roles in Cadfael and I, Claudius.

In this collection we hear, in his own words, about his... Read more

Alan Ayckbourn

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Alan Ayckbourn

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Alan Ayckbourn is a multi-award-winning playwright, whose plays have been seen in the West End, on Broadway and worldwide. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about his family and upbringing; on being a writer and director, as well as those who influenced him. He discusses the characters he creates and his time in Scarborough, and... Read more

Miracle for Jen

By: Joni Eareckson Tada, John Perry & Linda Barrick

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of November 5, 2006, the Barrick family was driving home from church when their van was struck by a drunk driver. Fifteen-year-old Jen suffered multiple skull fractures and severe brain trauma and was not expected to survive the night. But against all odds, she did. As she lingered in a coma, doctors warned that if Jen ever woke up,... Read more

All Cheeses Great and Small

By: Alex James

Narrated by: Alex James

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the... Read more

Akiane - Abridged

By: Akiane Kramarick & Foreli Kramarik

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to... Read more

Outlaw Platoon

By: Sean Parnell & John Bruning

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh,... Read more

Mad Women

By: Jane Maas

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Mad Women is a tell-all account of life in the New York
advertising world of the 1960s and '70s from Jane Maas, a female
copywriter who succeeded in the primarily male environment portrayed by
the hit TV show Mad Men.

Fans of the show are dying to
know how accurate it is: did people really have that much sex in the
office? Were there really... Read more

House of Stone

By: Anthony Shadid

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of... Read more

James Madison and the Making of America

By: Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin
Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen—as
"The Father of the Constitution"—to find a more complex and sometimes
contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways
in which he influenced the spirit of today's United States.  Instead of
an... Read more

Clarence Darrow

By: John A. Farrell

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being:
on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.
 

Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the
tumultuous... Read more

Faith and Other Flat Tires

By: Andrea Palpant Dilley

Narrated by: Andrea Palpant Dilley

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred.In this deeply... Read more

Eisenhower in War and Peace

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 28 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the best-seller FDR, Jean Edward Smith is a master of the presidential biography. Setting his sights on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smith delivers a rich account of Eisenhower's life using previously untapped primary sources. From the military service in WWII that launched his career to the shrewd political decisions that kept America out of... Read more

King Peggy

By: Peggielene Bartels & Eleanor Herman

Narrated by: J. Karen Thomas

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the hopeful sense of possibility of Half the Sky.
 
King Peggy chronicles the astonishing... Read more

The Noonday Demon

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more