Biography & Memoir audiobooks

JFK and the Unspeakable

By: James W. Douglass

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who... Read more

The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt

By: Jon-Jon Goulian

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The vibrant, funny, and heartwarming story of an outcast who becomes an odd man in
 
If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family’s imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered if every single thing to which your body is... Read more

Hearts Touched by Fire

By: Harold Holzer

Narrated by: various narrators, Joe Barrett, Traber Burns, R...

Length: 50 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s... Read more

A Cultivated Life

By: Joy Sterling

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a wine distinctive is the goUt du terroir, or the taste of the land-plus the personality and passion of the wine maker who lovingly adds his own liqueur de dosage or secret ingredient to each bottle. Here is a vintner's month-by-month account of one vintage at the Iron Horse vineyard located in the hills of Sonoma County in... Read more

Babe Ruth

By: Kal Wagenheim

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Babe Ruth grew from his adolescence in a Baltimore orphanage into a baseball superstar and national treasure. But he was also a product of his time, the colorful 1920s and 1930s. A sparkling collage of narratives from "the Babe", those who knew him, and the media makes this an exceptional biography as well as a work of cultural history. Read more

The Age of Deception

By: Mohamed ElBaradei

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past two decades, Mohamed ElBaradei has played a key role in the most high-stakes conflicts of our time. Unique in maintaining credibility in the Arab world and the West alike, ElBaradei has emerged as a singularly independent, uncompromised voice. As the director of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, he has contended with the... Read more

The Latehomecomer

By: Kao Kalia Yang

Narrated by: Kao Yang

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States—all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown.

Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family’s story after her... Read more

Stan Musial

By: George Vecsey

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When baseball fans voted on the top twenty-five players of the twentieth century in 1999, Stan Musial didn’t make the cut. This glaring omission—later rectified by a panel of experts—raised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

A Father's Love

By: David Goldman

Narrated by: David Goldman

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring, heart-rending story of a father's unwavering love for his son.

David Goldman and his Brazilian wife, Bruna Bianchi, led what appeared to be a happy life in New Jersey. But in June 2004, Bianchi took their four-year-old son, Sean, to Brazil for what she said would be a two- week vacation. Once there, she informed Goldman that she... Read more

The Railway Man

By: Eric Lomax

Narrated by: Bill Paterson

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost... Read more

SEAL Team Six

By: Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six—the covert squad that killed Osama bin LadenWhen the navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes... Read more

Shelf Life

By: Simon Parke

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected. There the similarities end, however. For while his elevation took place beneath the fine art of the Sistine Chapel, with the mysterious white smoke rising, mine took place in the cold store, with nothing more mysterious than the bacon delivery and yesterday's... Read more

Mastermind

By: Richard Miniter

Narrated by: Richard Miniter

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, has carried out many of the biggest terrorist plots of the past twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Millennium Plots, and the beheading of Daniel Pearl. As the world awaits his trial, bestselling author and investigative journalist Richard Miniter brings to... Read more

Say Her Name

By: Francisco Goldman

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body-surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too.... Read more

Ask Me Why I Hurt

By: Randy Christensen, M.D. & Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has... Read more

Working It Out

By: Abby Rike

Narrated by: Abby Rike

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, Abby Rike lost the life she knew and loved when her husband and two young children were killed in a car accident. Devastated and numb, she shut down. For nearly three years she walked through life like a spectre, present in body only. As she descended, so did her health.

Fortunately, Abby was not alone. She had loving parents, supportive... Read more

This Is Gonna Hurt

By: Nikki Sixx

Narrated by: Nikki Sixx

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This is Gonna Hurt is an arresting, deeply personal look through the eyes of a real... Read more

The Reading Promise

By: Alice Ozma

Narrated by: Alice Ozma

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father... Read more

S'Mother

By: Adam Chester

Narrated by: Adam Chester

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are... Read more

Three Cups of Deceit

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also not what he appears to be. As acclaimed author Jon Krakauer discovered, Mortenson has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into... Read more

An Accidental Sportswriter

By: Robert Lipsyte

Narrated by: Robert Lipsyte

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we leadGrowing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully magnet who went to the library instead of the ballpark. As the perpetual outsider, even into... Read more

Play Like You Mean It

By: Rex Ryan

Narrated by: Dan Lauria

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No football fan will want to be without the book that delivers pure, unfiltered Rex Ryan—head coach of the New York Jets and one of the most popular, outspoken, well-liked, and widely respected personalities in the National Football League.

Rex Ryan is known for his exuberance . . . and Play Like You Mean It explores every aspect of Ryan’s... Read more

William Wilberforce

By: Kevin Belmonte

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in all history is almost unknown today is a crying... Read more