Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Mencken: The American Iconoclast

By: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 24 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H. L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts—he was the twentieth century’s greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. He fought for civil liberties and free speech when few others would, yet he held... Read more

Manhood for Amateurs

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving’s inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the... Read more

American Rebel

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Marc Eliot

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As an actor, he seduced us with his tough-guy charm in A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry. As a director and a producer, he amazed us with his artistic insight and technical savvy in Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Changeling. Clint Eastwood represents the finest cinematic achievements of the last decades, and he remains one of film's... Read more

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives

By: Paul Shaffer & David Ritz

Narrated by: Paul Shaffer

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman?... Read more

If This Was Happiness

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s... Read more

Cowboy & Wills

By: Monica Holloway

Narrated by: Monica Holloway

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Christened “charming” and “winning” by the Washington Post and “touching” by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway’s deeply moving memoir shares the unforgettable story of an extraordinary little boy and the irresistible puppy who transformed his life.

The day Monica Holloway learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son... Read more

Finding It

By: Valerie Bertinelli

Narrated by: Valerie Bertinelli

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2008, Valerie Bertinelli’s #1 bestseller, Losing It, connected with fans of multiple generations and spent a remarkable 8 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Now in paperback Finding It shares Valerie's conflicted, humorous, and highly personal tale of her continuing search for answers to life's big questions.

Welcome back to chez... Read more

Weekends at Bellevue

By: Julie Holland

Narrated by: Julie Holland

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In... Read more

America's Prophet

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most fascinating and thought-provoking book to date, America’s... Read more

Flaubert

By: Geoffrey Wall

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor’s voice, Gustave Flaubert was perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century. He lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his novels at the rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, and they, in turn, helped to ensure his... Read more

Permission Slips

By: Sherri Shepherd

Narrated by: Sherri Shepherd

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Covering topics such as "It's Jesus or Jail," "Marriage, the Hard Way," "Children: The Gift You Can't Give Back," and "All the Things I Don't Know...And All the Things I Definitely Do," stand-up comedienne, actress, and ABC's The View co-host Sherri Shepherd comically chronicles her struggles to keep up with the many roles-professional, wife,... Read more

Upfront and Personal - Abridged

By: Coleen Nolan

Narrated by: Coleen Nolan

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Writing with the warmth and humour that have made her so popular, Coleen describes her eventful life, from joining her sisters' band The Nolans when she was only nine to growing up in the spotlight as they went on to chart-topping success around the world.

Coleen also reveals how she coped with her tumultuous marriage to television star Shane... Read more

The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas

By: author

Narrated by: Simon Le Bon, Derren Brown & narrator

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Simon Le Bon, Derren Brown, Charlie Brooker, Richard Dawkins, Ben Goldacre, Mitch Benn and more!In this download there are 38 atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers give their funny and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season. When the Atheist Bus Campaign was first launched, over £150,000, was... Read more

It’s Not What You Think - Abridged

By: Chris Evans

Narrated by: Chris Evans

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale… Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV... Read more

Parky: My Autobiography - Abridged

By: Michael Parkinson

Narrated by: Michael Parkinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades.
Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secrets of even the most reticent star guest, at... Read more

The Kids Are All Right

By: Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch & Dan Welch

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur & A...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."—People

Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

Nothing Was the Same

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist... Read more

Step Out on Nothing

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room.” Good luck, Brotha! You’ve come a long way to get here. You’ve earned it.” …If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, “I’m... Read more

Strange Things Happen

By: Stewart Copeland

Narrated by: Stewart Copeland

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“An excellent read.” —St. Petersburg Times “An often hilarious, always candid and astutely observed memoir chronicling a life observed, largely, from the vantage point of a drum throne.”—Buffalo News Rock legend Stewart Copeland, drummer for seminal pop trio The Police, shares his stories from before, during, and after his days with Sting and... Read more

Have a Little Faith

By: Mitch Albom

Narrated by: Mitch Albom

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds -- two men, two faiths, two communities -- that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a... Read more

The Hawk and the Dove

By: Nicholas Thompson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and surviving—that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic... Read more

This Family of Mine - Abridged

By: Victoria Gotti

Narrated by: Victoria Gotti

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty—Told by Their Most Famous Daughter

Victoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti household—the day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational headlines for decades. But with the pressing need to finally... Read more

The Clinton Tapes - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Taylor Branch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.

This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an... Read more