Biography & Memoir audiobooks

William and Harry

By: Katie Nicholl

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

William and Harry is a fascinating insight into the lives and loves of two extraordinary young men who have captured not only the hearts and minds of the British public but those the world over. This is the definitive book about the princes, bringing their story right up to date. It is the tale of two brothers who have carried the legacy of... Read more

Run to Overcome

By: Meb Keflezighi

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Meb Keflezighi (Kef-lez-ghee) is all about hope and second chances—starting with his very survival. The child of a small African country ravaged by a brutal war, Meb arrived in America with nothing but the clothes on his back, speaking no English and never having raced a mile. So how did he end up an A student, one of the most celebrated and... Read more

Cleopatra

By: Stacy Schiff

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.

Though her life... Read more

Unbearable Lightness

By: Portia de Rossi

Narrated by: Portia de Rossi

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood.” —Los Angeles Times

In this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir, actress Portia de Rossi shares the truth of her long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia while living in the public eye, and details the new happiness and health she has found in recent... Read more

American Heroes: In Special Operations

By: Oliver North

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (a New York Times best seller), Oliver North moves from the frontline to the world of shadow warriors, introducing readers to the brave, noble work of Navy Seals, Rangers, and Green Berets in American Heroes in Special Operations.From the sands of Iraq to the mountains... Read more

A Rope and a Prayer

By: David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill

Narrated by: David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban and his wife's struggle to free him. Read more

You Had Me at Woof

By: Julie Klam

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could spend the rest of her life with. And then it happened. She met the irresistible Otto, her first in a long line of Boston terriers, and fell instantly in love.



You Had Me at Woof is the often hilarious and... Read more

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor

By: Jerry Della Femina & Charles Sopkin

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Vividly reminiscent of the goings-on at Sterling Cooper—the late nights, the three-martini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging products—this is the story of what Madison Avenue was really like in the 1960s. A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1970, this frank, irreverent, and hilarious memoir is a... Read more

The Mind's Eye

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Oliver Sacks & Richard Davidson

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of... Read more

First Family

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their... Read more

Zero Regrets

By: Apolo Ohno

Narrated by: Apolo Ohno

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Gold medal-winning Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno shares the inspiring personal story behind his enduring success as an elite athlete and reveals the universal life lessons he has learned through his training and competition.

“Zero regrets. It’s a philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love—anything and... Read more

Going Home to Glory

By: David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower's closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an... Read more

The Elephant to Hollywood

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act

When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really... Read more

Franklin and Eleanor

By: Hazel Rowley

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism—and many scandals in between—the... Read more

Life

By: Keith Richards & James Fox

Narrated by: Keith Richards, Johnny Depp & Joe Hurley

Length: 23 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones.

With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.

Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening... Read more

Lion of Liberty

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, "Give me liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights. If Washington was the "Sword of the Revolution" and Jefferson,... Read more

A Very Irregular Head

By: Rob Chapman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway” (Syd Barrett, Rolling Stone, 1971).Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett was the definition of a golden boy. With good looks and an aptitude for music, he was a charismatic child who fast became a teenage leader in 1960s England. Along... Read more

Joe Biden

By: Jules Witcover

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

 Distinguished political columnist and veteran Washington correspondent Jules Witcover brings us an honest, meticulously researched, and up-to-date biography of one of America’s boldest vice presidents: Joe Biden. A fascinating portrait of an outspoken man of courage and strength who rose up from working class roots and has persevered over... Read more

127 Hours Movie Tie- In - Abridged

By: Aron Ralston

Narrated by: Aron Ralston

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The international bestseller Between a Rock and a Hard Place is now a major motion picture starring James Franco.

Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled... Read more

The Elephant to Hollywoo - Abridged

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really... Read more

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 24 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.”Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his “Final (and Right) Plan” for telling the story of his life. His... Read more

All but My Life

By: Gerda Weissmann Klein

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

All but My Lifeis the basis for the Academy Award–winning documentary from HBO,One Survivor Remembers.This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops—including the man who was to... Read more

Into the Storm

By: Andrew Tilin & Reed Timmer

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed Timmer is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world. His is a job that requires science and bravado, knowledge and instinct just to survive, never mind excel. It's a job some people would kill for. But most prefer to let Timmer take the risks while they watch from the safety of their homes. Reed Timmer is a star... Read more

Running the Books

By: Avi Steinberg

Narrated by: Dustin Rubin

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance... Read more