Biography & Memoir audiobooks

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

By: Benson Deng & Alephonsion Deng

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America.

Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of... Read more

You Better Not Cry

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

You've eaten too much candy at Christmas…but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses…but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover…but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic,... Read more

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

By: Anne C. Heller

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 19 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of two phenomenally best-selling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over twelve million copies in the United States alone. Through them, she built a cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the... Read more

The Queen Mother - Abridged

By: William Shawcross

Narrated by: William Shawcross

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and,... Read more

Thanks For Nothing

By: Jack Dee

Narrated by: Jack Dee

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter. It's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of disillusionment and bile.
From grumpy pensioners to 'gifted' children, from self-pitying farmers to well-meaning primary school teachers, Jack pulls no punches in this fearless assault on everyone and everything ... apart... Read more

Robert Altman

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Drinking with George

By: George Wendt

Narrated by: George Wendt

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. I feel the same about beer.

George Wendt and beer have shared a lot over the years: good times, great stories, useless trivia, and a successful show business career. In Drinking with George, Wendt invites readers to crack open a cold one and pull up a seat at the bar as he celebrates the... Read more

I Am The New Black - Abridged

By: Tracy Morgan & Anthony Bozza

Narrated by: Tracy Morgan

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.

Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock,... Read more

Robert Altman - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few... Read more

Our Noise

By: John Cook

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For twenty years, Merge Records has remained true to their belief that you can sign bands because you love their music and respect what they’re trying to do. As giant corporate labels struggle for survival, Merge has, in the unlikeliest of times, garnered a loyal group of artists and a secure and growing fan base and, most important, has brought... Read more

The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthusiastic admirer of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, professor and philosopher Peter Kreeft details the rational thought and precise literary talent that established Aquinas as the foremost thinker of his time-and as the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes. A landmark of... Read more

A Homemade Life

By: Molly Wizenberg

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

After Molly Wizenberg's father died, she traveled to Paris and-amidst its culinary delights-realized her heart was in the kitchen. So she began Orangette, a highly popular cooking and life blog that eventually led her to the love of her life. Read more

The Quest

By: Frank Peters

Narrated by: Frank Peters

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed professor emeritus F.E. Peters compares the similarities and differences in the dual searches for the historical Jesus and the historical Muhammad. These quests have been the focus of considerable effort since the lifetime of each of these venerated figures. Using the primary tools of historical inquiry and the evidence discovered by... Read more

Lawrence and the Arabs

By: Robert Graves

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

T. E. Lawrence began his lifelong affair with the Middle East while still a student at Oxford, taking a four-month walking tour of Syria to study the Crusaders’ castles. He later returned to the area as an archaeologist and, at the outbreak of World War I, was attached to British Army Intelligence in Egypt. In 1916 he set out on his greatest... Read more

Messenger

By: Jeni Stepanek & Larry Lindner

Narrated by: Jeni Stepanek

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When her son, Mattie, was born with a rare disorder now known as Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy, Jeni Stepanek was advised to put her child in an institution and “let nature take its course.” Instead, she nurtured a boy who grew to become a young man who transformed his hardships into a message of hope and peace that touched millions.... Read more

Jefferson the Virginian

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone┬É’s Pulitzer Prize–winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast resources, it covers Jefferson’s ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the... Read more

Unthinkable

By: Scott Rigsby & Jenna Glatzer

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

9 seconds. That’s how long it took for Scott Rigsby’s life to come crashing down around him. 16 hours, 42 minutes, 46 seconds. That’s how long it took for Scott Rigsby to make history. One day when Scott Rigsby was eighteen years old, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck that was towing a three-ton trailer. When the trailer was clipped... Read more

Elvis Presley

By: Pamela Clarke Keogh

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Before Elvis there was nothing.”—John Lennon“It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.”—Bruce SpringsteenThat voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls. Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture when, at age twenty-one, he became a modern superstar. He had a personal... Read more

Véra

By: Stacy Schiff

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's V├®ra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov—the ├®migr├® author of Lolita, Pale Fire,... Read more

The Fourth Star

By: Greg Jaffe & David Cloud

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next... Read more

What Would Susie Say?

By: Susie Essman

Narrated by: Susie Essman

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In What Would Susie Say?, Susie Essman sheds the crasser layers to reveal how she went from an anxiety-ridden, struggling stand-up comic to being one of the funniest women on television. Emerging as one of the most successful performers in her field, Essman goes behind the scenes of a life in comedy with her funny cohorts, including Joy Behar,... Read more

Double Take

By: Kevin Michael Connolly

Narrated by: Kevin Michael Connolly

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kevin Connolly has used an unusual physical circumstance to create a gripping work of art. This deeply affecting memoir will place him in the company of Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs.” — Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants “Charming … Connolly recounts growing up a scrappy Montana kid—one who happened to be born without legs...... Read more

Highest Duty

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie & Chesley B. Sullenberger

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15,... Read more

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

By: Rhonda Janzen

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis.

The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down,... Read more