Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Contested Will

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in... Read more

Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life

By: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Narrated by: Mike Golic & Mike Greenberg

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life, the... Read more

Pull Up a Chair

By: Curt Smith

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1950, the instantly recognizable voice of Vin Scully has invited listeners to “pull up a chair” for his peerless play-by-play sports reporting. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, Scully has narrated NBC Television’s Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, and twenty-five World Series, describing... Read more

Ich bin der Weiße Clown

By: Christiane Hörbiger

Narrated by: Christiane Hörbiger

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Die ungewöhnliche Autobiografie einer ungewöhnlichen Frau: Christiane Hörbiger erzählt in dieser sehr persönlichen Rückschau von großen und kleinen Momenten ihres Lebens, von Phasen der Freude und des Erfolgs und von solchen voller Trauer und Ängsten. Erinnerungen mit einer klaren Botschaft: Koste das Leben in jedem Augenblick aus, jeden Tag ein... Read more

Woodrow Wilson

By: John Milton Cooper, Jr.

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 35 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.

A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s... Read more

This Child Will Be Great

By: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The first elected woman president of an African country, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was also listed as one of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. This evocative memoir recounts Sirleaf 's childhood upbringing and rise to political power in Liberia. More than a simple biography, Sirleaf 's account details how she stood firm in the face of... Read more

The Lady in the Tower

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Judith Boyd

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and... Read more

Just Kids - Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft

By: Patti Smith

Narrated by: Sophie Rois

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Patti Smith führt uns in das New York der frühen Siebzigerjahre, in eine Ära, die für sie vor allem von der tiefen Freundschaft zu einem Menschen geprägt wird: dem später zu Weltruhm gelangten Fotografen Robert Mapplethorpe. "Just Kids" erzählt die bewegende Geschichte zweier Seelenverwandter, die für und durch die Kunst leben, und entwirft... Read more

David Livingstone

By: C. Silvester Horne

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Written just forty years after David Livingstone’s death, this admiring account of the famous missionary’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring “Christianity, commerce and civilization.” A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and... Read more

Dining with al-Qaeda

By: Hugh Pope

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations... Read more

Between Two Worlds

By: Roxana Saberi

Narrated by: Roxana Saberi

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Roxana Saberi had been living and working in Iran for nearly six years when four men forced her from her Tehran apartment one morning in January 2009. That night, she ended up in solitary confinement in the notorious Evin Prison. Her captors harshly interrogated her and accused her of espionage, a charge she denied. Weeks passed before her... Read more

Mandela's Way

By: Richard Stengel

Narrated by: Richard Stengel

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader’s wisdom into 15 vital life lessons

We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber­ated a country from a system of... Read more

Falling Apart in One Piece

By: Stacy Morrison

Narrated by: Stacy Morrison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when Stacy Morrison thought she had it all, her husband of ten years announced that he wanted a divorce. She was left alone with a new house that needed lots of work, a new baby who needed lots of attention, and a new job in the high-pressure world of New York publishing.



Morrison had never been one to believe in fairy tales. As far as she... Read more

Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given

By: Duane "Dog" Chapman

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be the world's greatest bounty hunter, Duane "Dog" Chapman has become famous for capturing fugitives on Dog the Bounty Hunter, his number-one-rated show on A&E.



But his job doesn't end when he cuffs his man—or woman.



Having personally struggled against abuse, addiction, and a life of crime, Dog knows a thing or two about... Read more

North by Northwestern - Abridged

By: Sig Hansen & Mark Sundeen

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream

Sig Hansen has been a star of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the... Read more

Supreme Power

By: Jeff Shesol

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 23 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand... Read more

Iggy Pop

By: Paul Trynka

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Iggy Pop’s legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he’s become a cult rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man... Read more

Nelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin, Berlin/Stockholm (Ungekürzt)

By: Nelly Sachs

Narrated by: Nelly Sachs, Katharina Marie Schubert, Paul Cel...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Mai 1940 floh Nelly Sachs mit einem der letzten Passagierflugzeuge von Berlin nach Stockholm. Hinter ihr lag mehr als die Hälfte eines Lebens, das nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten in Bedrohung geraten war; vor ihr lagen dreißig Jahre Exil, in denen ein lyrisches Werk entstand, das 1966 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur... Read more

Unbound

By: Dean King

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland... Read more

Sex, Love, and Money

By: Gerald Nissenbaum, JD & John Sedgwick

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients—how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn.



From a... Read more

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

By: Miranda Carter

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 21 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set... Read more

Paul and Me

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: A.E. Hotchner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.

A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition... Read more

The Long Way Home

By: David Laskin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants—never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million—nearly one out of every five men—were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of... Read more

The Beatles

By: Hunter Davies

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This worldwide bestseller is the biography that defined a band—and an era.As the friend and only authorized biographer of the most famous musical group in history, Davies had full access to the Beatles—including their family, friends, and colleauges—as well as their help and encouragement in writing this biography. He spent eighteen months with... Read more