Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Jack Kennedy

By: Chris Matthews

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an awesome and delightful book.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

“What was he like?”

Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was... Read more

Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.
 
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No Higher Honor

By: Condoleezza Rice

Narrated by: Condoleezza Rice

Length: 28 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a “sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions” (The Washington Post).
 
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era... Read more

Truth and Consequences

By: Laurie Sandell

Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims-including friends and family-out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail; he will spend the rest of his life there. But... Read more

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Walter Isaacson, longtime journalist and author, tells the story of Apple co-founder and inventor Steve Jobs in a new biography titled Steve Jobs. Jeffrey Brown and Isaacson discuss the life and work of the technology giant. Read more

The Borgias

By: Marion Johnson

Narrated by: Aviva Skell

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no wonder Machiavelli's account of CEsare Borgia in The Prince became one of the best-selling books in the 1980s business community. It's full of practical hints on how to stab your adversary in the back while staring him in the face. The surprise is how many educated readers still believe that Lucrezia Borgia was the unrivaled monster of... Read more

Hannibal

By: Ernle Bradford

Narrated by: Peter Jones

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

At the bloody battle of Cannae, he trounced a Roman army twice the size of his own. With his brothers, he subdued nearly all of Italy, Spain and Northern Africa. A cunning tactician, he secured victory for Bithynia at sea by catapulting poisonous snakes onto the decks of his enemy's ships. Biographer Ernle Bradford draws on the historical... Read more

My Dyslexia

By: Philip Schultz

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when... Read more

Sharon

By: Gilad Sharon

Narrated by: Rich Topol

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father’s closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush’s Decision Points, Tony Blair’s A Journey,Yitzhak Rabin’s The Rabin... Read more

Eva Braun

By: Heike B. Gortemaker

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

German historian Heike B. GOrtemaker delivers the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun in this authoritative reassessment of Braun's role in Hitler's life and revealing portrait of the FUhrer and his inner circle. Drawing on newly discovered documents, GOrtemaker carefully distinguishes fact from fiction. "The first scientifically... Read more

Ben-Gurion

By: David Landau & Shimon Peres

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the "Old Man," as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke... Read more

Steve McQueen

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Marc Eliot

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and '70s with now-classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Bullit, Steve McQueen is renowned as one of the most exciting actors ever to come out of Hollywood. Now, in Steve McQueen: A Biography, bestselling author Marc Eliot gives unique insight into... Read more

Eating with the Enemy

By: Kurt Pitzer & Robert Egan

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Egan could have been a roofing contractor, like his father. Instead, he opened a barbecue restaurant. His interest in the search for Vietnam-era POWs led to an introduction to North Korean officials desperate to improve relations with the United States. So Egan turned his restaurant into Camp David, with pork ribs.
 
 During tumultuous... Read more

Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

The Kitchen Readings

By: Michael Cleverly & Bob Braudis

Narrated by: Eric Tollefson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve all seen the Johnny Depp and Bill Murray versions of Hunter S. Thompson--a larger-than-life madman, swilling booze with one hand and piloting classic cars with the other. But while Hunter’s legendary exploits in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” and “Hell’s Angels” and his other Gonzo tales are the public side of the man, there were very... Read more

Steve Jobs - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

Displaced Persons

By: Joseph Berger

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this eloquent and glorious memoir, New York Times reporter Joseph Berger reflects upon his days growing up in Manhattan's Upper West Side following World War II. Berger and his family, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, arrived in New York in 1950. Their fascinating story of adaptation in a strange, new world speaks universally of the... Read more

An American Childhood

By: Annie Dillard

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes there is an entire year that sparkles in the memory as a time brimming over with the fullness of life. By the age of 10, Annie's intervals of awakening began to occur more frequently; the hours and minutes of the years that followed were spent reveling in the delights and the anguishes that accompany being fully alive. Read more

Hoover’s FBI

By: Cartha “Deke” DeLoach

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the upcoming film J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood.As director of the FBI for over five decades, J. Edgar Hoover left a profound and lasting legacy on this most celebrated institution. Only the few who were part of Hoover’s inner circle know the truth about his controversial years of authoritarian rule and the... Read more

The End of Normal

By: Stephanie Madoff Mack

Narrated by: Stephanie Madoff Mack

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff, the first genuine inside story from a family member who has lived through- and survived-both the public crisis and her own deeply personal tragedy. When the news of Bernard Madoff 's Ponzi scheme broke, Americans were shocked and outraged,... Read more

West by West

By: Jerry West & Jonathan Coleman

Narrated by: Ryan West

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day.

Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his... Read more

Andy Borowitz Presents The Funniest American Writers

By: Jennifer Allen, Nora Ephron & Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Andy Borowitz

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning comedian and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz presents an evening of literary laughter and a look at the new Library of America collection he edited, The Fifty Funniest American Writers—a hilarious collection of American humor writing from Mark Twain and James Thurber to David Sedaris and The Onion.

Borowitz, who has been called... Read more

Into the Silence

By: Wade Davis

Narrated by: Enn Reitel

Length: 28 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.
 
In this magisterial... Read more

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

By: Judy Collins

Narrated by: Judy Collins

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.
 
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about... Read more