Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Paul Newman

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... Read more

Red and Me

By: Bill Russell

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book."" — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book ReviewIn Red and Me, Boston Celtics... Read more

The Unexpected Adventure

By: Lee Strobel & Mark Mittelberg

Narrated by: Lee Strobel/Mark Mittelberg & Lee Strobel

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Well-known evangelists Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg have teamed up to bring you a 42-day devotional-style series of adventures in sharing the gospel.Through their own stories—ranging from the laugh aloud funny to the discouraging to the uncanny—Strobel and Mittelberg will motivate you to make the Great Commission a way of everyday... Read more

Angry Conversations with God

By: Susan Isaacs

Narrated by: Susan Isaacs, Dale Inghram, Scott Brick & Tony ...

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was raised Lutheran: Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Lutheran. But as an adult I tried everything: Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Rock ‘n’ Roll Slackers 4 Jesus, Actors for Yahweh. Then I said, ‘Screw it’ and became a drunk and a slut. Well, a Lutheran slut–I slept with only two guys. Then I got sober and into AA, where they said I... Read more

Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys - Abridged

By: Neil Oliver

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stories of heroism, exploration, and sacrifice -- including Apollo XIII and Scott of the Antarctic -- that inspire boys to be courageous, selfless, and open to adventureTales of brave and selfless deeds used to be part of every boy’s education. We grew up sharing stories with our fathers, uncles, and grandfathers of how other men had lived their... Read more

Paul Newman - Abridged

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... Read more

A Feast of Words

By: Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 19 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this definitive psychological interpretation of Edith Wharton’s life and work. This edition includes two new chapters illuminating Wharton’s times and creative process: one on Lily Bart and the lethal stereotypes of women on the... Read more

A-Rod - Abridged

By: Selena Roberts

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Diligent, detailed, and overpowering. This is not a book of conjecture: It’s one of bootstrap journalism.” —New York magazine The New York Times calls sports journalist Selena Roberts’s blistering biography, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, “Important…devastating…merciless.” A columnist for Sports Illustrated, Roberts pulls no punches... Read more

LeMay

By: Warren Kozak

Narrated by: Grainger Hines

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Curtis Lemay's life spanned an epoch in American military history—from his troubled background, heroic service in Europe, and firebombing of Tokyo to his guardianship of the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the cold war, frustrated career in government, and short-lived political run. LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay tells the whole... Read more

The Secret Holocaust Diaries

By: Nonna Bannister, Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl. “The time has come when I must share my life story... some facts from the past that could make a contribution, however small it may be, to the history of mankind.”  The Secret Holocaust... Read more

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

By: Vaslav Nijinsky & Kyril FitzLyon

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A prodigy from his youth in Russia, Vaslav Nijinsky came to international fame as a principal dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In December 1917, Nijinsky—by then the most famous male dancer in the Western world—moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and began to go mad. When psychosis struck, he imagined... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Frank Harris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Harris, a journalist and editor, delighted in Oscar Wilde’s genial wit and self-assurance. Wilde’s verbal charms evoked Harris’ financial and emotional support when Victorian England disdained the playwright for his paganism and imprisoned him for “homosexual offenses.” Harris relates the proceedings of Wilde’s trial and the malice that... Read more

My Remarkable Journey

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For a half-century, the world's most influential figures told their story to Larry King. One of the most famous personalities in television history—whose trademark suspenders and unmistakable voice were known to millions around the world—King reveals nearly all in this intimate and riveting memoir. He delves deeply into his extraordinary... Read more

Creating Equal

By: Ward Connerly

Narrated by: Ward Connerly

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a man who searched his conscience, decided that the American Dream should be colorblind, and then set out to change the rules. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part road map, Creating Equal tells how a black man fought against affirmative action in California and Washington state.It begins in segregated Louisiana with a... Read more

Promises I Made My Mother

By: Sam Haskell & David Rensin

Narrated by: Sam Haskell

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself?

What would my mother say?

Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day.

When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the values of character, faith, and honor by setting an... Read more

Showing Up for Life

By: Bill Gates, Sr. & Mary Ann Mackin

Narrated by: Patrick Egan & Bill Gates, Sr.

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill... Read more

Angels in My Hair

By: Lorna Byrne

Narrated by: Sile Bermingham

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For anyone who has ever wondered about the mysteries that lie beyond everyday experience, or doubted the reality of the afterlife, Angels in My Hair is a moving and deeply inspirational journey into the unseen world.

For as long as she can remember, Lorna Byrne has seen angels. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the otherworldly... Read more

Yogi Berra

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs.



In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's... Read more

Ishi in Two Worlds

By: Theodora Kroeber

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse... Read more

A Little Bit Wicked

By: Kristin Chenoweth & Joni Rodgers

Narrated by: Kristin Chenoweth

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Life's too short. I'm not." You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV-The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her huge... Read more

Rudyard Kipling

By: Andrew Lycett

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping biography mixes intimate detail with a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time to unravel the intricate story of the misunderstood genius who wrote Kim, The Jungle Books, and the poem “If.”Growing up in both England and India, this descendant of a high-achieving family crossed... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

By: Carl Van Doren

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 32 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin’s activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.In this Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

Empire - Abridged

By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more

For You, Mom. Finally.

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women 

A former New York Times restaurant critic, editor in chief of Gourmet, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure in the food world and beyond. Not Becoming My... Read more