Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Irishman (Movie Tie-In)

By: Charles Brandt

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES

New York Times Bestseller

Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian.
 
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American Lion - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and... Read more

In Search of Bill Clinton

By: John D. Gartner

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

William Jefferson Clinton, the forty-second president of the United States, is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age—a dark horse who captured the White House, fell from grace, and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based on the day's sound bites.



John D. Gartner's In Search of Bill Clinton... Read more

Call Me Ted

By: Ted Turner & Bill Burke

Narrated by: Ted Turner

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments - Ted became... Read more

Call Me Ted - Abridged

By: Ted Turner & Bill Burke

Narrated by: Ted Turner

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments - Ted became... Read more

Izzy & Lenore

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Katz is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous nonfiction tales of man's best friend. Here he presents the story of two dogs that profoundly affected his life and work. Skittish border collie Izzy pushes him into rewarding work with Hospice. And black lab Lenore's gentle spirit helps remind him why he wanted to work with animals... Read more

Dear Fatty - Abridged

By: Dawn French

Narrated by: Liza Tarbuck

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

A SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French.

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with a career that has spanned nearly four decades. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has... Read more

Campaigning with Grant

By: General Horace Porter

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Horace Porter served as lieutenant colonel on Ulysses S. Grant’s staff from April 1864 to the end of the Civil War. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns, and was present at Lee’s surrender at McLean’s house. Throughout the war, he kept extensive notes that capture Grant’s conversations, as... Read more

Traitor to His Class

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 37 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius,... Read more

Somebody

By: Stefan Kanfer

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor Marlon Brando is perpetually fascinating, both for the power of the characters he portrayed and for his tumultuous personal life. Bestselling biographer Stefan Kanfer seamlessly intertwines the man and his work to give us this illuminating appraisal.Kanfer takes us from Brando’s troubled childhood to his arrival in New York in the 1940s,... Read more

Traitor to His Class - Abridged

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius,... Read more

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge

By: Paul Lockhart

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure.



In the first book on Steuben since 1937, Paul Lockhart, an expert on European military history, finally... Read more

The Hemingses of Monticello

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 30 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in... Read more

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause

By: Jeffry D. Wert

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortally wounded in battle when he was only thirty-one, the dashing J. E. B. Stuart, the South's "plumed warrior knight," stands with Stonewall Jackson as one of the Confederacy's most revered martyrs. Union General John Sedgwick called him "the greatest cavalryman ever foaled in America." Jeffry D. Wert, however, offers a more balanced... Read more

Stalin

By: Robert Conquest

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded—even after his death.In this book, the first to draw from recently released archives, leading USSR scholar-historian Robert Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student; as a revolutionary and... Read more

Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

By: George M. Marsden

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703–1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a biographer, a college president, a philosopher, a loving husband, and the father of eleven children.... Read more

Under the Streets of Nice

By: Ken Follett & Rene Maurice L.

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century.A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside—with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system... Read more

Lincoln

By: Fred Kaplan

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln, acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America’s sixteenth president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment. Like the... Read more

The Cross and the Switchblade

By: David Wilkerson

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gangfighters, drug addicts, teenage runaways, and prostitutes—the toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. That is, until a country preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a streetcorner message of renewal, miracles, and God's love.David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped... Read more

Why Do I Say These Things? - Abridged

By: Jonathan Ross

Narrated by: Jonathan Ross

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is Jonathan Ross. And nothing is out of bounds when it comes to talking about life as he knows it. From sex and pugs to rock 'n' roll and genital warts, Jonathan holds forth as only he can. This sharply observed, laugh-out-loud, outrageous page-turner will leave you asking just one question . . . Why didn't he write it sooner? Read more

Roads to Quoz

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: William Least Heat-Moon

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads -- those... Read more

The Good Man of Nanking

By: John Rabe

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining... Read more

The Founding Fathers

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 22 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Founding Fathers series includes:

George Washington by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn
In this thoughtful and incisive biography, Burns and Dunn dissect the strengths and weaknesses of Washington's presidential leadership, from his lasting foreign and economic policies to his polarizing denunciation of political parties and his public... Read more

Crossing the Continent 1527-1540

By: Robert Goodwin

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly two centuries before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began their epic trek to the Pacific coast, a group of three Spanish noblemen and an African survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attack, and disease to make the first crossing of North America in recorded history. Drawing on contemporary accounts and long-lost records, Robert Goodwin... Read more