Biography & Memoir audiobooks

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

By: Nujood Ali

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
 
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells... Read more

Islands of the Damned

By: R. V. Burgin & William Marvel

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an eyewitness—and eye-opening—account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R. V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty and, with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic,... Read more

Lift

By: Kelly Corrigan

Narrated by: Kelly Corrigan

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan’s Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising... Read more

Not Without Hope

By: Nick Schuyler & Jere Longman

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Not Without Hope is the true story of the headline-making tragedy that took the lives of three football players: NFL stars Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Will Bleakley from the University of South Florida. Told by the sole survivor of the ill-fated fishing trip, Nick Schuyler, with New York Times bestselling author and sports journalist... Read more

Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power.... Read more

Circle of Greed

By: Patrick Dillon

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon.  For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron.  Now, the man who brought corporate moguls... Read more

Helmet for My Pillow

By: Robert Leckie

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow, we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging... Read more

Vivas en su jardín

By: Dede Mirabal

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes & Dede Mirabal

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

El testimonio valiente y vibrante de la unica sobreviviente de las Hermanas Mirabal, asesinadas cruelmente por el tirano Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Dede Mirabal nos cuenta la verdadera historia de Patria, Minerva y Maria Teresa y de la ferrea lucha de sus hermanas por vivir en libertad y de sus esfuerzos junto a un pueblo oprimido por una... Read more

My Footprint

By: Jeff Garlin

Narrated by: Jeff Garlin

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical... Read more

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up

By: Jeff Kahn & Annabelle Gurwitch

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Jeff Kahn & Annabelle Gurwitch

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love-and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir. After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found "We're just not that into us." Instead of giving... Read more

A Certain Risk

By: Paul Andrew Richardson

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Busy? Yes. Fruitful? No. Many of us lead frenzied lives—but feel we are going nowhere. Every day you may be asking yourself, “How can I become a voice of hope when the problems are so great? How can I envision my circumstances through God’s eyes and respond to others with the passions of his heart when the dry details of the day take over? How... Read more

The Tudors

By: G. J. Meyer

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 24 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country.

“A thoroughly readable and often compelling narrative . . . Five centuries have not diminished the appetite for all things Tudor.”—Associated Press

In 1485, young Henry... Read more

Happy

By: Alex Lemon

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed poet Alex "Happy" Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir. With an aneurysm in his brain, Lemon becomes trapped within the wreckage of his 19-year-old, stroke-ravaged body. But as he plunges into depression and longs for death, his mom's life-affirming determination urges him to... Read more

The Bag Lady Papers

By: Alexandra Penney

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a multimillion-dollar bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to... Read more

An Education

By: Lynn Barber

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to a precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber's seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels, posh... Read more

The Politician

By: Andrew Young

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Like a nonfiction version of All the King's Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking, perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.



Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the... Read more

Star

By: Peter Biskind

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 23 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Famously a playboy, Warren Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde (which confirmed for him the importance of controlling the projects he was involved in) to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar),... Read more

The Power of Half

By: Kevin Salwen & Hannah Salwen

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Simultaneous with the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-547-24806-0 The inspiring and moving story of one family’s unlikely quest to stop taking and start giving back—from a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and his daughter It all started when 15-year-old Hannah Salwen, idealistic but troubled by a growing sense of injustice... Read more

The Bread of Angels

By: Stephanie Saldaña

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2004, twenty-seven-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Damascus, Syria, on a Fulbright fellowship to study the role of the prophet Jesus in Islam. She was also fleeing a broken heart. It was not an ideal time to be an American in the Middle East—the United States had recently invaded Iraq, refugees were flooding into Damascus, and dark... Read more

Thin Places

By: Mary E DeMuth

Narrated by: Mary E. DeMuth & Mary E. DuMuth

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of “thin places” in her life—places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. As DeMuth writes, “Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. They are aha moments,... Read more

Willie Mays - Abridged

By: James S. Hirsch

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling, authorized, “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (The Seattle Times) biography of the late, great Willie Mays.

Willie Mays (1931–2024) was arguably the greatest player in baseball history, revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New... Read more

Dangerously Funny

By: David Bianculli

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly antiauthoritarian point of view. In this explosive, revealing history of the show, veteran entertainment journalist David Bianculli tells the fascinating story of its three-year network... Read more

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

By: Allison Hoover Bartlett

Narrated by: Judith Brackley

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

John Charles Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett... Read more

Staying True

By: Jenny Sanford

Narrated by: Jenny Sanford

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.

She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American politics’ rising... Read more