Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a collection of seventy-one poems, and Memoranda during the War, an intimate diary of his experience tending to the... Read more

An Improvised Life

By: Alan Arkin

Narrated by: Alan Arkin

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this insightful memoir, Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin reflects back on finding his place as an actor and on what theater—specifically the improvisational sort—has taught him about the craft and life.Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. From this early age, he recognized that “every film I saw, every play, every... Read more

Untied

By: Meredith Baxter

Narrated by: Meredith Baxter

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man.  After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it.  ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
 
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family... Read more

On Gold Mountain

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life” (Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club).

"As... Read more

To a Mountain in Tibet

By: Colin Thubron

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic heart of the world and an ancient site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Even today, under Chinese domination, the people of four religions circle the... Read more

Tell to Win

By: Peter Guber

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Today everyone—whether they know it or not—is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it. And this book tells you how to do both.

Historically,... Read more

Blood, Bones & Butter

By: Gabrielle Hamilton

Narrated by: Gabrielle Hamilton

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • National Post • The Toronto Star • BookPage • Bookreporter

“I wanted the lettuce and... Read more

People Like Us

By: Sandra Harnisch-Lacey & Steve Stickley

Narrated by: Abby Guinness, Sandra Lacy, Steve Stickley, Chr...

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“I want to die fully alive so my soul’s got extended capacity for heaven.”—Rob LaceyPeople Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey’s biography.People Like Us is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who... Read more

Is Shakespeare Dead?

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Richard Henzel

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

As a cub pilot, one of Mark Twain’s masters was a pilot named George Ealer, who recited Shakespeare by the hour--from memory--and who was a virulent opponent of the notion that the so-called Shakespeare plays and poems were in truth written by Sir Francis Bacon. At first young Sam Clemens agreed with his teacher and boss, but he soon realized... Read more

The King's Speech

By: Peter Conradi & Mark Logue

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The King's Speech was written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue—grandson of Lionel Logue, whose recently discovered diaries and correspondence contain fascinating details about these true events.



At the urging of his wife, Elizabeth, the Duke of York (known to the royal family as "Bertie") began to see speech... Read more

Townie

By: Andre Dubus

Narrated by: Andre Dubus

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award–nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing.After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in... Read more

Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time he was ten years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market: whatever you needed, from bricks and firewood to dress material or machetes, Billy Brown could get it - or knew a man who could. And, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram.

With energy and... Read more

In the Valley of the Shadow

By: James L. Kugel

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When James L. Kugel, one of the world's leading biblical scholars, was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal form of cancer, he said, "I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music suddenly stopped. Now I was just down to myself, one little person, sitting in the late summer... Read more

The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard & Janet Stevens

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes,The Writing Lifeoffers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.A gregarious recluse, Dillard has passed many days, weeks, and... Read more

Our Last Best Chance

By: King Abdullah II of Jordan

Narrated by: Nadim Sawalha

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today.

When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major... Read more

Walking from East to West

By: Ravi Zacharias

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The heartfelt memoir of Ravi Zacharias. Follow along with his journey to discover that God is the author of our destinies, no matter how dark the shadows that hide the light.Ravi Zacharias lived an extraordinary life. In this touching memoir, Zacharias shares an intimate look into his formative years, inviting you to follow him all the way back... Read more

The Crusader

By: Paul Kengor

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the upcoming film Reagan starring Dennis Quaid and directed by Sean McNamara“Combining the skills of great story-telling with his commitment to scholarly detail, Paul Kengor has written an important book that also makes for a fascinating read. The Crusader will not only entertain and inform, it will change minds.” — Peter... Read more

Mr. Funny Pants

By: Michael Showalter

Narrated by: Michael Showalter

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The writer and star of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and Michael & Michael Have Issues brings readers his uniquely absurd humor in his hilarious first book.

I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate, or go to India, or fall in love? Then I had a... Read more

Faith in the Land of Make-Believe

By: Lee Stanley

Narrated by: Lee Stanley

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a narrative about a young man destined to accomplish the impossible, more than a chronicle of successful Hollywood writer, producer, and director, Lee Stanley’s unparalleled success that changed not only his life but also the lives of millions of others … Faith in the Land of Make-Believe is the gritty memoir of someone who was never... Read more

Against All Odds

By: Scott Brown

Narrated by: Scott Brown

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2010—but, as he reveals in a compelling... Read more

A Widow's Story

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Ellen Parker

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award,... Read more

Inside WikiLeaks

By: Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Narrated by: Erik Davis

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An exposé of the “World’s Most Dangerous Website” from a former WikiLeaks insider

The basis for the movie The Fifth Estate (starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange), this eye-opening account by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the increasingly... Read more

And Furthermore

By: Judi Dench

Narrated by: Samantha Bond

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought me the most rewarding professional relationships and friendships. I cannot imagine now ever doing anything else with my life except acting…" – Judi Dench

From London's glittering West End... Read more

33 Men

By: Jonathan Franklin

Narrated by: Armando Valdez Kennedy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and historic heroism.33 Men is the groundbreaking, authoritative account of the Chilean mine disaster, one of the longest human entrapments in history. Rushing to... Read more