Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Wishing on the Moon

By: Donald Clarke

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who... Read more

Black Men Rock!

By: Coach Michael Taylor

Narrated by: Coach Michael Taylor

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Contrary to negative media-generated stereotypes, I personally believe that black men are poised to experience unprecedented levels of success in America today. Never have the doors of opportunity been open wider for us to follow our passions and create the lives of our dreams. For those of us who are willing to make the investment in our own... Read more

White Cap and Bails

By: Dickie Bird & Mr H D Bird

Narrated by: Graham Roberts

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers, the matches and the character of these clubs. Dickie also relives his... Read more

The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

By: Alastair Campbell

Narrated by: Alastair Campbell

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you happy? Does it matter?

Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in... Read more

Silver Like Dust

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage,... Read more

George F. Kennan

By: John Lewis Gaddis

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 31 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the “Long Telegram” and the “X Article,” which set forward the strategy of containment that would define US... Read more

Elizabeth the Queen

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 21 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This “excellent, all-embracing” (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distance—and a captivating window into her decades-long reign.

From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II was the object... Read more

I Got This

By: Jennifer Hudson

Narrated by: Shanelle Gabriel & Jennifer Hudson

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in... Read more

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

By: John M. Barry

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author John M. Barry has penned numerous works on a variety of historical subjects. Here Barry explores the development of the fundamental ideas of church and state through the story of Roger Williams. The first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, Williams helped shape the balance of... Read more

The Obamas

By: Jodi Kantor

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning reporter Jodi Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House in an "insightful and evocative" portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama (Chicago Tribune) that will surprise even readers who thought they knew the two icons. 

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle.... Read more

Heart of a Soldier

By: George E. Pickett

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A., written to his wife, Sally. These letters reveal intimate details of Pickett's personal life, as well as his incredible accounts of Civil War battles and personalities. A must-listen for any Civil War buff Read more

A Step Further

By: Joni Eareckson Tada & Steve Estes

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Personal answers to the difficult "whys" of suffering. New 16-page photo section and illustrations by Joni.Originally published in 1978, A Step Further is Joni Eareckson Tada's response to thousands of letters she received from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. Joni answers these questions by taking a personal look at how God has... Read more

House of Lies

By: Martin Kihn

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting. Read more

Paramhansa Yogananda

By: Swami Kriyananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Paramhansa Yogananda’s classic Autobiography of a Yogi was more about the saints Yogananda met than about himself—in spite of the fact that Yogananda was much greater than many he described.
Now, one of Yogananda’s few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda, author of award winning book The New Path, tells the untold story of this great... Read more

Great Harry

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 24 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In lively, absorbing prose that rivals the finest literary fiction, prize-winning historian Carolly Erickson recreates the life of the notorious Tudor king, Henry VIII. In his youth as a charming national hero, his reign as a monstrous king, and his final days as a tottering old man, Erickson draws a thoroughly convincing portrait of one of... Read more

Memories of Muhammad

By: Omid Safi

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, leading Islamic scholar Omid Safi presents a portrait of Muhammad that reveals his centrality in the devotions of modern Muslims around the world. This religious biography offers new insights into Islam, covering such hot button issues such as the spread of Islam, holy wars, the role of women,... Read more

Titanic Lives

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives on board the most famous ship in history. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the seemingly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg, sustaining a 300-feet gash as six compartments were... Read more

The Locked Ward

By: Dennis O'Donnell

Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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An extraordinary account of a nurse's life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward.

Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care... Read more

As Good As She Imagined

By: Roxanna Green & Jerry B Jenkins

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

On the day Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot, a remarkable little girl went to heaven. This is the story of a mother's quest for peace in the midst of unspeakable heartache. By the time the shooting ended on that cloudless January day in front of a Tucson grocery store, 19 innocent people lay wounded, dead, or dying. Among the gravely... Read more

American Sniper

By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD—NOMINATED FOR SIX ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTUREFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during... Read more

Les plus belles lettres d'amour

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Auteurs classiques utilisant leur plume pour vivre, personnages historiques entrés dans la légende, tous sont des hommes et femmes qui se sont un jour laissés éprendre… Derrière leur vie sociale, publique et parfois mondaine se cachent des êtres qui ont correspondu avec amour et passion avec l'élue de leur cœur. Retrouvez içi les mots que... Read more

The Year We Disappeared

By: Cylin Busby & John Busby

Narrated by: Cylin Busby & David Baker

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A peaceful summer night is shattered by gunfire as an unseen assailant tries to murder police officer John Busby. Though horribly wounded, Busby survives. But the perpetrator remains at learge, meaning Busby and his family remain in danger. In alternating chapters, John Busby and his daughter, Cylin, tell the harrowing true story of the year... Read more

Lettres d'amour de Napoléon

By: Napoléon

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Napoléon Ier, empereur des français, ne peut laisser personne indifférent. Enfant, on est fasciné par l'épopée de ses conquêtes européennes, relayées par de beaux romans d'aventures. Adulte, on s'essaie à évaluer sa profonde transformation de la société française. On croit ainsi avoir tout lu ou tout appris sur lui grâce aux milliers d'ouvrages... Read more

Frédéric Chopin, sa vie, son oeuvre

By: various

Narrated by: Jean Desailly, Simone Valère & various

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Voici une biographie musicale de Frédéric Chopin : sa vie et son œuvre sont racontées, et des pauses musicales présentent des extraits de plus belles œuvres du compositeur. Read more