Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Clinging to the Wreckage

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Creator of the mysteries starring the beloved English barrister, Horace Rumpole, John Mortimer paints a spirited portrait of his own colorful life in his quirky autobiography, Clinging to the Wreckage. With wit and style, he takes you from his austere childhood in a 1930s British boarding school to his successful dual career in law and writing... Read more

Pocahontas

By: Frances Mossiker

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pocahontas: a story about a sweet little Indian girl who dramatically saved an Englishman's life? Hardly. This book covers the remarkable life of America's First Lady and depicts the fascinating times of the early 17th century, when a new age was awakening and the brave were seizing it. Read more

81 Days Below Zero

By: Brian Murphy & Toula Vlahou

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of Leon Crane, the only surviving crew member of a World War II B-24 crash on a remote mountain near the Arctic Circle, who managed to stay alive 81 days in sub-zero temperature by making peace with nature, and end his ordeal by walking along a river to safety. Part World War II story, part Alaskan adventure story, part survival... Read more

Knife Fights

By: John A. Nagl

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America's military superiority meant that the age of conventional... Read more

Forever Young

By: William Sylvester Noonan & Robert Huber

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father's casket to his tragic death at age thirty- eight, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was never far from the public eye. Now the friend who John was flying to see the night he died reveals the private man behind the public myth. Billy and John shared summers in Hyannisport and formed a bond in the... Read more

The Story of Chicago May

By: Nuala O'Faolain

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning memoirist and New York Times best-selling author Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own experience as an Irishwoman to bring May-and all her... Read more

Fierce Patriot

By: Robert L. O'Connell

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of... Read more

Visions and Revisions

By: Dale Peck

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a revolutionary look at the 1990s AIDS epidemic from ""one of our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today"" (San Francisco Chronicle). Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Album or Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style portrait of a... Read more

Lincoln in the World

By: Kevin Peraino

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents-- and helped point the way to America' s rise to world power. This is the story of one of the most breathtaking feats in the annals of American foreign policy-- performed by one of the most unlikely figures. Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered... Read more

The Monopolists

By: Mary Pilon

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed... Read more

Alternadad

By: Neal Pollack

Narrated by: Neal Pollack

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alternadad, Neal Pollack offers a wonderfully candid account of his and his wife's attempt to bring up their son while still having fun and preserving their attachment to youth culture. For Pollack, this means bringing the boy to music festivals and teaching him about the history of rock and roll, and nothing brings joy to his heart like... Read more

One Chance

By: Paul Potts

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain' s GotTalent-- soon to be a major motion picture from The Weinstein Company One Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur singer by night, who stepped onto the stage in the premiere season of Britain' s Got... Read more

The Still Point of the Turning World

By: Emily Rapp

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of... Read more

The Kennedys at War

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion's Pride, focuses on the World War II era to craft a welcome addition to the Kennedy literature. Renehan shows how family patriarch Joseph was an ambitious but occasionally embarrassing diplomat, while wartime disaster elevated second son John to great heights. Sisters Kathleen and... Read more

The Dog Lived

By: Teresa Rhyne

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller The USA Today bestseller "Funny, smart, uplifting, and fun, The Dog Lived (and So Will I) reminds us that animals are among our best teachers, our most powerful healers, and our most steadfast friends. I loved it!"-- Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig The tale of a... Read more

Pinkerton's Great Detective

By: Beau Riffenburgh

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton' s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland' s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included... Read more

A Game of Character

By: Craig Robinson

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When he stepped into history's spotlight at the National Democratic Convention, Craig Robinson recalls that nothing could have been more gratifying than introducing his sister, Michelle Obama, to millions of Americans. Within minutes, he won the hearts of the nation by sharing highlights of growing up in the modest Robinson household, where the... Read more

Step Across This Line

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie offers incisive, often humorous takes on literature, culture and world events in this New York Times Notable Book. In these stimulating pieces, Rushdie addresses a variety of subjects, including the death of the novel, India, soccer and the Rolling Stones. "Sometimes pensive, sometimes... Read more

The Distancers

By: Lee Sandlin

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Distancers , seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of... Read more

The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire

By: John Phillip Santos

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a family-his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions... Read more

Identical Strangers

By: Elyse Schein & Paula Bernstein

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo & Effie Johnson

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What's more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated... Read more

The Dark Path

By: David Schickler

Narrated by: David Schickler

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Since childhood, David Schickler has been torn between his intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company of women. Growing up in a family of staunch Catholics in upstate New York, Schickler senses God along what he calls " the dark path"-- a shadowy trail that winds through the woods behind his... Read more

This Just In

By: Bob Schieffer

Narrated by: Bob Schieffer

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It has been a remarkable career for Bob Schieffer, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News. He is trusted by countless Americans to cover the stories that matter. During his extraordinary career, he has won six Emmys. In 2002 the National Press Foundation hailed him as the Broadcaster of the Year. Now the highly respected veteran newsman... Read more

A Life in the Twentieth Century

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 27 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is one of the finest historians of our age. A former special assistant to President Kennedy, he received the National Humanities Medal in 1998. In this first volume of memoirs Schlesinger turns a keen eye on his own remarkable life--from his Midwestern upbringing, through his... Read more