Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

Your Voice in My Head

By: Emma Forrest

Narrated by: Emma Forrest

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist—a man whose... 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

Robert Redford

By: Michael Feeney Callan

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.

Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the... Read more

A Singular Woman

By: Janny Scott

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is... 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

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

By: Steven Tyler

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who’s been influential for a whole generation of Rock ’n’ Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!”
—Sir Paul McCartneyDoes the Noise in My Head Bother You? is the rock memoir to end all rock memoirs — the straight-up, no-holds-barred story of Grammy Award-winning, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of... Read more

From This Moment On - Abridged

By: Shania Twain

Narrated by: Sherie Rene Scott & Shania Twain

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From superstar Shania Twain, a poignant, heartfelt, and beautifully told account of her hard-scrabble childhood, rise to worldwide fame, and personal tragedies.

The world may know Shania Twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished... Read more

We Bought a Zoo

By: Benjamin Mee

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in the Guardian, We Bought a Zoo is a profoundly moving portrait of an unforgettable family living in the most extraordinary circumstances. This touching memoir is now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon.When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them... Read more

The Ballad of Bob Dylan

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century—a man widely regarded as the most important lyricist America has ever produced. Acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein frames Dylan against the backdrop of four seminal concerts—all of which he attended: Lisner... Read more

Don't Play in the Sun

By: Marita Golden

Narrated by: Michelle Hurst

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Marita Golden is a respected voice in both fiction and nonfiction. She is also the founder and CEO of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, whose mission is to develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent. In this thoughtful and personal work, Golden tackles the dangerous notion that it is preferable... Read more

Tiger, Tiger

By: Margaux Fragoso

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Margaux Fragoso explores her childhood experience with a pedophile with painful honesty. Fragoso had met Peter Curran when she was only seven and he was 51. Desperate to escape being around her mentally unstable mother and her alcoholic father, Fragoso spent increasingly more time at Curran's home. Soon, Curran would guide their... Read more

Dark Genius of Wall Street

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of The Kennedys at War and The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. presents a fascinating biography of one of the most hated and most admired American entrepreneurs of all time. Here, he sheds light on Wall Street magnate Jay Gould and his frequently overshadowed creativity. Gould was the quintessential robber baron and the original... Read more

The Man in the White Suit

By: Ben Collins

Narrated by: Ben Collins

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more – including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear… When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an aircraft carrier in 2003, we were... Read more

A Jane Austen Education

By: William Deresiewicz

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.

In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing... Read more

Tolkien and the Great War

By: John Garth

Narrated by: John Garth

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The... Read more

Music for the People

By: Gareth Malone

Narrated by: Gareth Malone

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might make us cry, but the idea of finding out more about classical music can often be intimidating. In this funny, evocative, personal book, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure. ... Read more

Success After Failure

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Phil Donahue

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there success after failure? Talk show greats Tavis Smiley and Phil Donohue discuss. Read more

No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

By: Melissa Fay Greene

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps... Read more

The Floor of Heaven

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian... Read more

A Helluva High Note

By: Kara DioGuardi

Narrated by: Kara DioGuardi

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Kara DioGuardi is an award-winning hitmaker, a savvy record executive, and a successful music publisher whose songs have been recorded by such superstars as Pink, Carrie Underwood, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, Santana, Steven Tyler, Céline Dion, and so many others. She was also the feisty fourth judge on... Read more

Reading My Father

By: Alexandra Styron

Narrated by: Alexandra Styron

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. From Styron’s youth and precocious literary... Read more

Tin Can Man

By: E. J. Jernigan

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

E. J. Jernigan's memoir offers listeners a fascinating glimpse of life as an enlisted man aboard the USS Saufley, one of the most highly decorated destroyers of World War II. It is a rarely told story of the sailors who fought the war from boiler rooms, after-steering spaces, radio shacks, and other gritty places that keep a warship going. For... Read more

Rubber Balls and Liquor

By: Gilbert Gottfried

Narrated by: Gilbert Gottfried

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1970s, as our nation's youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn't suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his... Read more