Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

Pocahontas

By: Frances Mossiker

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pocahontas: a story about a sweet little Indian girl who dramatically saved an Englishman's life? Hardly. This book covers the remarkable life of America's First Lady and depicts the fascinating times of the early 17th century, when a new age was awakening and the brave were seizing it. Read more

Small Man in a Book

By: Rob Brydon

Narrated by: Rob Brydon

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

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Rob Brydon - star of Gavin and Stacey, Steve Coogan's partner in The Trip, and one of Britain's favourite comedians - tells the funny and frank story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book.

A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired... Read more

Work! Consume! Die!

By: Frankie Boyle

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Brace yourself, Frankie’s back, and he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever. There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where’s-my-job?-sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void as taloned fingers reach up to... Read more

Socrates

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Paul Johnson's books have been translated into dozens of languages. In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history's greatest thinkers. Socrates transcended class limitations in Athens during the fifth century B.C. to... Read more

Holy Ghost Girl

By: Donna M. Johnson

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A compassionate, humorous story of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust trailShe was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist of tent revivalist David Terrell, and before long, Donna Johnson was part of the hugely popular evangelical preacher’s inner circle. At seventeen, she left the ministry for good, with a... Read more

My Shit Life So Far

By: Frankie Boyle

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since being brought up by The Beatles, Frankie Boyle has been a tremendous liar. Join him on his adventures with his chum Clangy The Brass Boy and laugh as he doesn’t accidentally kill a student nurse when a party gets out of hand. I don't think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point thinking... Read more

Sweetness

By: Jeff Pearlman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The first definitive biography of Chicago Bears superstar Walter PaytonAt five feet ten inches tall, running back Walter Payton was not the largest player in the NFL, but he developed a larger-than-life reputation for his strength, speed, and grit. Nicknamed “Sweetness” during his college football days, he became the NFL’s all-time leader in... Read more

Ben Behind His Voices

By: Randye Kaye

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this updated 2nd edition, available only as an audiobook, Randye Kaye tells listeners, in the introduction and epilogue, about what happened in the decade after the initial release of Ben Behind His Voices. Yes, Ben is still here, still living a real-life version of "Chutes and Ladders" along with his family. Such is life with serious mental... Read more

Miracle in the Mine

By: José Henriquez

Narrated by: Blas Kisic

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 13, 2010, millions of television viewers on five continents literally stopped everything to watch the amazing rescue of 33 men trapped underground in the mine of San José de Copiapó in northern Chile. What had seemed at first a hopeless tragedy later became a triumph of human effort, courage, perseverance, and expertise. For 17... Read more

Precious Objects

By: Alicia Oltuski

Narrated by: Alicia Oltuski

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only... Read more

My Song

By: Harry Belafonte & Michael Shnayerson

Narrated by: Harry Belafonte & Mirron Willis

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.
 
Belafonte grew up,... Read more

The Puppy Diaries

By: Jill Abramson

Narrated by: Beth MacDonald

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An instructive and marvelously entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the executive editor of The New York Times

One sparkling summer day, Jill Abramson brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their adorable new puppy, Abramson wrote a hugely popular column for... Read more

County

By: David A. Ansell

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the health-care provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. County covers more... Read more

Ten Letters

By: Eli Saslow

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, President Obama reads ten representative letters among the thousands he receives from citizens across the land. The letters come from people of all ages, walks of life, and political points of view. Some are heart­breaking, some angry, some hopeful. Indeed, Obama reads as many letters addressed “Dear Jackass” as “Dear Mr. President.”... Read more

Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne

Narrated by: Frank Skinner

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The "Full Ozzy Genome" contained variants that... Read more

True Strength

By: Kevin Sorbo

Narrated by: Kevin Sorbo & Sam Sorbo

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On television, as the star of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demi god. He relished living the part—putting in 14-hour days on set, doing his own stunts, and relentlessly working out at the gym. Until one day it all came to an abrupt end. Now, for the first time, Sorbo shares what viewers didn’t... Read more

How to Survive the Titanic

By: Frances Wilson

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On the terrifying, chaotic night of April 14, 1912, while the Titanic was sinking, Bruce J. Ismay, the ship's owner, made a decision that would save his life - and end it. Ismay boarded a lifeboat meant for women and children, and within days became 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World.' Branded a coward, he became a flesh-and-blood embodiment... Read more

Beauty, Disrupted

By: Carre Otis & Hugo Schwyzer

Narrated by: Carre Otis

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughouther career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis hasbeen celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honestmemoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events thatultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that canonly be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carrédetails the... Read more

FDR Goes to War

By: Anita Folsom & Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Burton Folsom's New Deal or Raw Deal? was heralded by critics across the board, and #1 New York Times bestselling author and media personality Glenn Beck called it "a must read to help understand our current fiscal problems." Now, writing with his wife Anita Folsom, a domestic policy specialist, FDR Goes to War expands on the premise that FDR's... Read more

This I Believe: Life Lessons

By: Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman & John Gregory

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Broadcast weekly on Bob Edwards’ SiriusXM Satellite Radio and public radio shows, This I Believe features the voices, personal experiences, and profound insights of students, educators, politicians, artists, executives, the struggling and the successful. These diverse, engaging essays are valuable lessons for those just starting out or anyone... Read more

Elizabeth and Hazel

By: David Margolick

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous... Read more

Lettre à Adélia

By: Arol Pinder

Narrated by: Arol Pinder

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Femme de sa terre et terre faite femme tout à la fois. Les images, touchantes et neuves, pour chanter l'une et l'autre, Pinder les puise dans son inénarrable amour d'elles. Amour fondateur. Exaltant. Du lyrisme presque à l'état pur, enrichi, ô grâce, du ballet harmonique des mots. La poésie, cette fois encore, trouvera sa plénitude dans... Read more

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 25 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison’s classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus’ path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a... Read more