Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Hero of the Pacific

By: James Brady

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a single night define a man's life?  From the summer of 1943 to early 1945, John Basilone was one of the most famous and admired people in America. As the first enlisted man to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, for extraordinary bravery under fire at Guadalcanal, he toured the nation with movie stars, shared podiums with mayors... Read more

An Unquiet Mind - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more

Out of the Frying Pan - Abridged

By: Keith Floyd

Narrated by: Keith Floyd

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known personality, and the discovery of a writing... Read more

Homeland

By: George Obama

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkable memoir, President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, twenty-seven-year-old George Obama, describes his unique struggles with family, tribe, inheritance, and redemption and the seminal influence his brother had on his own future.The elusive father that both brothers shared died when George was only six months old. George was raised... Read more

Hayek

By: Eamonn Butler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel prize winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler’s clear, systematic, perceptive study fills this gap. Starting with a short survey of Hayek’s life, Dr. Butler goes on to analyze... Read more

Committed

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both... Read more

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II.  Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue,... Read more

Marx's General

By: Tristram Hunt

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman.



Yet Engels was also,... Read more

High Society

By: Donald Spoto

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In just seven years—from 1950 through 1956—Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented actresses and iconic beauties. Her astonishing career... Read more

Stirred but Not Shaken

By: Keith Floyd

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the first celebrity chef, the swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas, on a BBC budget, communicating his love of food to millions of viewers. Make a wonderful dish and have a bloody good time: that was the criteria of Keith Floyd's mission (a mission that lasted several decades). Along the way he inspired a generation of men to get... Read more

Winning Through

By: Brian Irvine

Narrated by: Kenny Blyth

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Winning Through Brian Irvine tells the truth about his life as a footballer. From family life in Airdrie we follow him as he realises his boyhood dreams. He becomes an international player with Aberdeen and Scotland. But he has to cope with bad times, and worse, when he is told he has a serious and possibly fatal illness. Finally he has to... Read more

Slave Across the Street

By: Theresa Flores

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, most people in the U.S. still believe this is something that happens to foreign women, men and children--not something that happens to their own. In this powerful true story, Theresa Flores shares how her life as an All-American, blue-eyed, blond-haired... Read more

This House of Sky

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American WestIvan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also... Read more

The Rose Man of Sing Sing

By: James McGrath Morris

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial... Read more

The Last American Man - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable look at a truly pioneering, but thoroughly modern, American hero.Finalist for the National Book Award 2002In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his... Read more

The Darwin Myth

By: Benjamin Wiker

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's reputation has wavered between two extremes—secular saint or heretic. But the truth is much more complicated than that. While he was by all accounts a kind and virtuous man, Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection has been one of the most destructive ideas... Read more

It's Just Like I Told You - Abridged

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The compilation audiobook featuring Tom Bodett's most beloved stories. Read more

Louisa May Alcott

By: Harriet Reisen

Narrated by: Harriet Reisen

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott's life: the effect of her father's self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family's chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; and the loss of... Read more

Patton, Montgomery, Rommel

By: Terry Brighton

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Second World War, the United States, Great Britain, and Germany each produced one land-force commander who stood out from the rest: George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel. All were arrogant, publicity seeking, and personally flawed, yet each possessed a genius for command and an unrivaled enthusiasm for combat. But their... Read more

Autobiography of a Yogi

By: Paramhansa Yogananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Top 100 Spiritual Book of the Twentieth Century This audiobook is read by a direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda. It is read from the original 1946 first edition of the Autobiography of a Yogi written by Paramhansa Yogananda. The Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the best-selling Eastern philosophy titles of all-time, with millions of copies... Read more

The Birthday Party

By: Stanley N. Alpert

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his... Read more

Cleaving

By: Julie Powell

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do -- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her memoir, Cleaving.

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery.... Read more

One and the Same

By: Abigail Pogrebin

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is "identical twin." Pogrebin's relationship with her sister—both as children, when they were inseparable, and today, when she longs for that uncomplicated intimacy—inspired her to examine the phenomenon of twinship, to learn how... Read more

Enemies of the People

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Kati Marton set out on a wrenching personal journey to uncover the truth about her parents during her childhood in Cold War Budapest. She exposes the cruel mechanics of the communist state using the secret police files on her parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by... Read more