Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Thanks, Johnners

By: Jonathan Agnew

Narrated by: Jonathan Agnew

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW AND FOREWORD READ BY THE MAGNIFICIENT STEPHEN FRY WITH SURPRISE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JONATHAN’S TEST MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES!! Perfect for cricket fans everywhere, Thanks Johnners is a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time at the helm of Test Match Special. READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW,... Read more

Outside Looking In

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review).

Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills brings... Read more

Life and Laughing

By: Michael McIntyre

Narrated by: Michael McIntyre

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, poignant and remarkably honest biography from Britain's biggest comedy star, Michael McIntyre, brought to you by Penguin.

His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time.
Now he hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and has won the British Comedy Award for Best... Read more

You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know

By: Heather Sellers

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness.Heather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people’s faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion... Read more

Irish Thunder

By: Bob Halloran

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Irish" Micky Ward grew up in the 1970s and '80s as a tough kid from Lowell, Massachusetts—a town where young men became boxers as a means of survival. Ward participated in street fights from an early age and was forever known by his opponents and spectators as the underdog. But with his incredible ability to suddenly drop an opponent late in a... Read more

Through Thick and Thin - Abridged

By: Gok Wan

Narrated by: Gok Wan

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a short space of time, Gok Wan's infectious energy and charisma have made him an essential and much-loved part of Britain's TV landscape. He dominates the Channel 4 schedules with no less than three shows: How to Look Good Naked, Gok's Fashion Fix and Miss Naked Beauty, has published bestselling style guides to go with them, and he is also a... Read more

The Last Boy

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Jane Leavy & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife... Read more

Churchill Defiant

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life. In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and the bare-knuckled political and personal battles... Read more

Oogy

By: Larry Levin

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Rescuing Sprite comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted.

In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible... Read more

The Fiery Trial

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C.... Read more

Extraordinary, Ordinary People

By: Condoleezza Rice

Narrated by: Condoleezza Rice

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a... Read more

The Long Run

By: Matthew Long & Charles Butler

Narrated by: Matthew Del Negro

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of December 22, 2005, New York City firefighter Matt Long was cycling to work when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of death. Miraculously, after five months in the hospital and more than 40 operations, Matt was able to start his recovery. In... Read more

The Governator

By: Ian Halperin

Narrated by: Greg Itzin

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Muscle Beach to Hollywood superstar to The Governator—Ian Halperin, investigative journalist and # 1 New York Times bestselling author, reveals the untold story about the outsized and often outrageous Arnold Schwarzenegger. The former Austrian bodybuilding icon turned movie action hero turned governor of California is portrayed in all his... Read more

Dewey's Nine Lives

By: Vicki Myron

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki Myron follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories! Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats—all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who... Read more

Late, Late at Night

By: Rick Springfield

Narrated by: Rick Springfield

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller! Grammy Award-winning icon Rick Springfield shares the startling story of his rise and fall and rise again in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression.

In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award–winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a... Read more

The Woman I Was Born to Be - Abridged

By: Susan Boyle

Narrated by: Elaine C. Smith

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A memoir from worldwide singing sensation Susan Boyle—an inspiring story about overcoming struggles and celebrating triumphs, as she achieved her greatest dream.

In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain’s Got Talent touched the hearts of... Read more

Fragments - Abridged

By: Marilyn Monroe

Narrated by: Isabel Keating

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.

Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made... Read more

Here We Go Again - Abridged

By: Betty White

Narrated by: Betty White

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television—as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself—filled “with inspiring cheerfulness” (The New York Times).

Betty White first appeared on television in 1949 and went on to have one of the most amazing careers in TV history, starring in shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show... Read more

Without Hesitation - Abridged

By: Gen. Hugh Shelton, Ronald Levinson & Malcolm Mc...

Narrated by: Gen. Hugh Shelton

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time.

Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible... Read more

The Deeds of My Fathers

By: Paul David Pope

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A story that reads like The Godfather has been crossed with Citizen Kane. The Deeds of My Fathers is the riveting true story of two men, a father and a son, who each started with nothing and built an empire.Generoso Pope, Sr., an Italian immigrant, arrived in New York in 1906 with only pennies in his pocket. He got a job shoveling sand, but... Read more

Conversations with Myself

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: John Kani

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.

A singular international... Read more

Жизнеописания Гайдна и Моцарта.

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Nikolay Trifilov

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Романист Стендаль выступает в роли музыкального критика и страстного любителя музыки. Эти произведения представляют собой, в первом случае, расширенный художественный перевод книги итальянца Джузеппе Карпани (обвинившего Стендаля в плагиате), во втором - талантливую компиляцию двух немецких биографий Моцарта (Винклера и Крамера), завершающуюся... Read more

Афон. Валаам. Москва

By: Boris Zaytcev

Narrated by: Vyacheslav Zadvornykh

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Повести "Афон" (1928) и "Валаам" (1929) талантливого писателя-эмигранта Бориса Зайцева написаны по следам его паломнической поездки в эти святые места. Тихая и углубленная жизнь монахов, стремление к чистоте сердца, постоянная молитва - все то, что было утрачено новой Россией, бесконечно привлекает писателя, не перестающего и на чужбине... Read more

Всевеликое Войско Донское

By: Pyotr Krasnov

Narrated by: Nikolay Trifilov

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

В мае 1918 года казачий Круг спасения Дона избирает Краснова атаманом Войска Донского, которое превращается в самостоятельное государственное образование с конституцией и правительством. В ходе освобождения Дона от большевиков Краснов вынужден прибегать к экономической помощи немцев, которые оккупировали соседствующую Украину. К середине июля... Read more