Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving)... Read more

The Girls of Murder City

By: Douglas Perry

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special—worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Some Girls

By: Jillian Lauren

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen... Read more

Florence Nightingale

By: Laura E. Richards

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many in the present generation. This story of that justly beloved woman’s life is told by one whose father was in part responsible for Miss Nightingale’s... Read more

My Life as a Russian Novel

By: Emmanuel Carrere

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film project in the heart of Russia while also embarking on a new... Read more

Jan's Story

By: Barry Petersen

Narrated by: Barry Petersen

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine hearing these words: "She has Alzheimer's."



Now imagine that "she" is vibrant, active, loving, healthy...and just fifty-five.



Acclaimed CBS News reporter Barry Petersen writes about hearing the unimaginable; what it meant, what it still means, what he did—and didn't do—and how this beautiful love story needs to be heard by the thousands... Read more

The Olive Farm

By: Carol Drinkwater

Narrated by: Carol Drinkwater

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For many, Carol Drinkwater will be forever remembered for her part as the wholesome Helen Herriot in the television series 'All Creatures Great and Small'. But since being a successful actress in England, she has spent the past thirteen years in France with her husband Michel. This is the story of her new life, of the trials and tribulations of... Read more

Return to the Olive Farm

By: Carol Drinkwater

Narrated by: Carol Drinkwater

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France. However, the homecoming celebrations are overshadowed by disturbing discoveries. The plight of the honey bee has become an international crisis and Carol is faced with... Read more

The Most Dangerous Man in America

By: Catherine Drinker Bowen

Narrated by: Lois Betterton

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

There have been numerous biographies of Benjamin Franklin, including his own notorious autobiography. This is the most charming and captivating account of all. Every chapter is a bewitching gem, and Franklin lives and breathes on every page.This is the last book in Catherine Drinker Bowen’s brilliant career. With this, she did not intend to... Read more

This Boy's Life

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic in the genre. With this book, Wolff essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since. It was made into a movie in 1993.

Fiction writer Tobias Wolff electrified critics with his scarifying 1989 memoir, which many deemed as notable for its artful structure and... Read more

All Over the Map

By: Laura Fraser

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless in her thirties, she found solace in the wanderlust that had always directed her heart—and found love and comfort in the arms of a dashing Frenchman. Their Italian affair brought her back to... Read more

The Third Man - Abridged

By: Peter Mandelson

Narrated by: Peter Mandelson

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

READ BY PETER MANDELSON. The hotly anticipated memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects. READ BY PETER MANDELSON. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during... Read more

Churchill

By: Roy Jenkins

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 38 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. From a very young age, Churchill believed he was destined to play a great role in the life of his nation, and he determined to prepare himself for the task. Roy Jenkins shows in fascinating detail how Churchill educated himself for greatness, how he worked out his livelihood through writing as well... Read more

Cardboard Gods

By: Josh Wilker

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his... Read more

Every Other Monday

By: John Kasich & Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978, John Kasich embarked on a political journey that would take him from the Ohio State Senate to the highest reaches of government and a run at the White House. Along the way, he became known for his no-nonsense style, his unsinkable work ethic, and his unflagging belief in God.



In 1988, Kasich embarked on another, more personal... Read more

The Zeroes

By: Randall Lane

Narrated by: Randall Lane

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world. Among Randall's eye-popping true stories:



—How fortunes were made, from the million-dollar score made in the thirty-minute gap between... Read more

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Scott Sheppard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more

In a Heartbeat

By: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy & Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sally Jenkins, Ka...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story

First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never... Read more

A Full Cup

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. he built a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. And his colorful pursuit of the America's Cup trophy made him a beloved figure on both sides of the... Read more

George Washington

By: John R. Alden

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary one-volume biography vividly portrays the unbreakable link between George Washington and the nation he helped create, defend, and govern. It begins in 1754, when Washington, beginning his military career with the Virginia Regiment, makes the decision to fire the opening shots of war between England and France. Carrying through... Read more

Right from the Beginning

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Michael Wells

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today and how he came to believe as he does. It is the intimate first-person account of how the third son in a devout Catholic family of nine children, an expellee from Georgetown University at age... Read more

Suck It, Wonder Woman!

By: Olivia Munn & Mac Montandon

Narrated by: Olivia Munn

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's hottest geek and host of G4's ATTACK OF THE SHOW dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything from Star Wars, gadgets, and her love of banana cream pie.

Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network. She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman. SUCK IT... Read more

Medium Raw

By: Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes... Read more