Biography & Memoir audiobooks

I'm Down

By: Mishna Wolff

Narrated by: Mishna Wolff

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes... Read more

A Flame of Pure Fire

By: Roger Kahn

Narrated by: Kevin Yon

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the... Read more

The Accidental Billionaires

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic... Read more

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979,... Read more

Prisoner of the State

By: Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius & Bao Pu

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give listeners a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the... Read more

Cole...I Love You to the Moon and Back

By: Aaron Dean Ruotsala

Narrated by: Aaron Dean Ruotsala

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Aaron Dean Ruotsala, 24-year-old husband, father, business owner, and pilot shares a true story about a heart-wrenching experience he calls the best and worst experience of a lifetime. This story will provoke you to laughter, tears, and cause you to examine yourself and your role as a human on this temporal journey. His prayer is that all who... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1843-1849

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1837-1842

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1859-1860

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances

By: Mark Millhone

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the tragedy-of-the-month club! In one nine-month period, Mark Millhone's youngest son nearly dies from birth complications, his oldest son is injured in a household accident, his father is diagnosed with prostate cancer, and his mother has a heart attack and passes away. In the aftermath of this year-from-hell, his marriage also... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1849-1855

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1809-1837

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1855-1858

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Black Titan

By: Elizabeth Gardner Hines & Carol Jenkins

Narrated by: Susan Spain

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A.G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew... Read more

Warlord

By: Carlo D’Este

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 30 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Warlordis the definitive chronicle of Winston Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the North-West Frontier of colonial India and the Boer War through his extraordinary service in both World Wars.Carlo D'Este's brilliant biography examines Churchill through the prism of his... Read more

The Olive Tree

By: Carol Drinkwater

Narrated by: Carol Drinkwater

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Olive Tree charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time. Troubled by challenges her own South of France farm is experiencing - attack by a... Read more

Hughes

By: Richard Hack

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Howard Hughes (1905-1976) was a true American original: legendary lover, record-setting aviator, idiosyncratic film producer, talented inventor, ultimate eccentric—and, for much of his lifetime, the richest man in the United States. His desire for privacy was so fierce and his isolation so complete that even several decades after his death,... Read more

Ernest Hemingway

By: Catherine Reef

Narrated by: Jill Shellabarger

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Meet one of the most significant and notorious American writers of the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest writers in modern history, and his novels and stories are read, studied, and imitated around the world. His concise prose style earned him both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize. His name conjures up vivid images:... Read more

Duchess of Death

By: Richard Hack

Narrated by: Nicholas Coster

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

She is the most popular novelist in history, yet the drama and torment of Agatha Christie's private life remains a mystery even to her most ardent fans. She made no secret of her disdain for the press and for those who wished to intrude on her private life. Nonetheless, in this immensely readable and intimate biography, best-selling author... Read more

Camp - Abridged

By: Michael D. Eisner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Over the years, as a camper and a counselor, Disney CEO Michael Eisner absorbed the life lessons that come from sitting in the stern of a canoe or meeting around a campfire at night. With anecdotes from his time spent at Keewaydin and stories from his life in the upper echelons of American business that illustrate the camp's continued influence,... Read more

Tales of Wonder

By: Huston Smith

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey—a Who’s Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton and Pete Seeger.... A... Read more

Hit Hard

By: Joey Kramer

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“If ‘sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll’ is what you want, it’s what you’ll get in these photo-laden pages. Kramer’s style is honest, straightforward and pulls no punches.”
— Publishers Weekly Cash meets The Heroin Diaries in Hit Hard: Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer’s moving and inspiring story of fighting personal demons, as well as a wildly glamorous,... Read more

First Things First

By: Brenda Warner & Kurt Warner

Narrated by: Todd Busteed, Rebecca Gallagher & Abigail Seward

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurt Warner is the two-time NFL MVP–winning quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Brenda Warner is an ex-Marine turned stay-at-home Mom who collects coats for low-income kids and rocks babies to sleep at a center for chronically ill infants. Together they’re the parents of seven children, going into their thirteenth year of marriage. Their... Read more

The Faith of Barack Obama

By: Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Stephen Mansfield

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

 Get inside the mind and soul of Barack ObamaIn The Faith of Barack Obama, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield takes readers inside the mind, heart, and soul of presidential hopeful Barack Obama—as a person of faith, as a man, as an American, and possibly as our future commander in chief.America faces looming inflation, climate... Read more