Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Radio Shangri-La

By: Lisa Napoli

Narrated by: Lisa Napoli

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—said to be one of the... Read more

The Obamas

By: Peter Firstbrook

Narrated by: Peter Firstbrook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first in-depth history of the Obama family, Peter Firstbrook recounts a journey that starts in a mud hut by the White Nile and ends seven centuries later in the White House. Interweaving oral history and tribal lore, interviews with Obama family members and other Kenyans, the writings of Kenyan historians, and original genealogical... Read more

Known and Unknown - Abridged

By: Donald Rumsfeld

Narrated by: Donald Rumsfeld

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often... Read more

High Hopes

By: Ronnie Corbett

Narrated by: Ronnie Corbett

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A true great of British comedy, Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Corbett, is hailed as one of the finest comedians of his generation.

Son of an Edinburgh baker, Ronnie rose to fame as one half of the infamous Two Ronnies alongside Ronnie Barker. Known for his versatility, quick-wit, family-friendly dialogue, and meandering monologues, Corbett was a staple of... Read more

Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut

By: Jill Kargman

Narrated by: Jill Kargman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The star of Bravo’s new comedy Odd Mom Out and author of The Ex Mrs. Hedgefund and Wolves in Chic Clothing firmly believes in Woody Allen’s magical math equation: Comedy = Tragedy + Time. Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut is a delightful collection of essays and observations based on Jill Kargman’s family, her phobias (vans, mimes, clowns), and her... Read more

Genius

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Dick Estell

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his... Read more

A Box of Darkness

By: Sally Ryder Brady

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations. Sally a debutante, Upton a classics major from Harvard, they met at the Boston Cotillion. He was articulate, witty, and worldly, and he danced like Fred Astaire. How could she resist? Despite raising four children on... Read more

My Father’s Fortune

By: Michael Frayn

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this memoir, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, even through the... Read more

Endgame

By: Frank Brady

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the bestselling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy.... Read more

The Pioneer Woman

By: Ree Drummond

Narrated by: Ree Drummond

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.
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Memories and Adventures

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle“I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career... Read more

A Race Too Far

By: Chris Eakin

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never before attempted - a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification.

This remarkable challenge inspired the daring to enter - with or without sailing... Read more

Little Princes

By: Conor Grennan

Narrated by: Conor Grennan

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”
—Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of OutcastsLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and... Read more

My Comrades and Me

By: Al Brown

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sergeant Brown joined the Third Infantry Division in Italy on Thanksgiving Day, 1943 as a private. With the Third Division, he participated in seven campaigns, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, and Central Europe. His Thirtieth Infantry Regiment concluded the war in Salzburg, Austria, May 5, 1945. He... Read more

The Producer

By: Dunstan Prial

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The son of a Vanderbilt heiress, John Hammond listened to jazz records with his parents’ servants, went to Harlem as a teenager, and became a regular in clubs where very few white faces ever appeared. Taking a little family money, Hammond went across racial lines in pre–World War II America and came back with recordings of some of the greatest... Read more

The Memory Palace

By: Mira Bartok

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more dangerous, she withdrew into a world that neither of her daughters could make any sense of. After being violently attacked for demanding that Norma seek help, Mira Bartok and her sister... Read more

I Shall Not Hate

By: Izzeldin Abuelaish

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"—captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece.



By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is... Read more

Chinaberry Sidewalks

By: Rodney Crowell

Narrated by: Rodney Crowell

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.

The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at... Read more

Al Jaffee's Mad Life

By: Mary-Lou Weisman

Narrated by: Allen Rickman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth

The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe’s career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor pieces for Timely Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics—but the... Read more

The Quiet World

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic... Read more

Cocaine's Son

By: Dave Itzkoff

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times journalist David Itzkoff crafts a powerful, remarkably honest memoir that no reader will ever forget. Growing up, David understood his father to be a trusted ally and confidant-a man who always had some hard-won wisdom to share. But he was also a junkie. As David grew older, he fell into the same trap, until he and his father hit... Read more

My Father at 100

By: Ron Reagan

Narrated by: Ron Reagan

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

February 6, 2011, was the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan wrote My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father—one of the most popular presidents in American history—told from the perspective of someone who knew Ronald Reagan better than any advisor, friend, or colleague. As he... Read more

Escape from the Land of Snows

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of the miraculous journey that made the Dalai Lama into the man he is today and sparked the fight for Tibetan freedom
 
“A hair-raising tale of daring and escape.”—The Washington Post
 
In the early weeks of 1959, a bloody uprising gripped the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as ragtag Tibetan rebels faced off... Read more

An American Childhood

By: Annie Dillard & Janet Stevens

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir about parents, the world of science, and consciousnessA book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard’s poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.“Dillard’s luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this... Read more