Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II - Abridged

By: John Paul II & Peter Canisius Johannes van Li

Narrated by: William Bogert

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The former leader of the world's Catholics presents a year's worth of meditations on the life of Jesus, the Church, the family, and the place of faith in daily life, in this best-selling volume. Read more

Zlata's Diary - Abridged

By: Zlata Filipovic

Narrated by: Dorota Puzio & Janine di Giovanni

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the world

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-to-day record of the life... Read more

America's Queen - Abridged

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has captivated the American public for more than five decades. From her introduction to the world as "debutante of the year" in 1947 to her untimely death in 1994, she has truly remained America's answer to royalty. In America's Queen, the acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Grace reveals the real... Read more

Acedia & me

By: Kathleen Norris

Narrated by: Kathleen Norris

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't summon the energy for her daily tasks. Even as she struggled,... Read more

Angler

By: Barton Gellman

Narrated by: Brian Keith Lewis

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 8 CDs, 10 hours

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power. Read more

The Black List - Abridged

By: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders & Elvis Mitchell

Narrated by: Elvis Mitchell & with Contributers

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Black List, twenty-five prominent African-Americans of various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds offer their own

stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in America and, in the process, redefine "black list" for a new century.

As seen in original portraits by renowned photographer Timothy... Read more

Deconstructing Sammy - Abridged

By: Matt Birkbeck

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Equal parts cultural history, celebrity biography, and brilliant investigative journalism, Deconstructing Sammy by Matt Birkbeck is a behind-the-scenes look at the disastrous fall of one of the brightest stars of Hollywood and Las Vegas: Sammy Davis, Jr. A member of the infamous Rat Pack, a compatriot of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and one of... Read more

The Forever War - Abridged

By: Dexter Filkins

Narrated by: Dexter Filkins

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the... Read more

Invitation

By: Basyle Tchividjian

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Invitation is a timely, elegant, giftable coffee table book illustrating the impact of Billy Graham on the lives of people during the past half-century. Three of Graham's grandsons have compiled stories, pictures, and testimonies of people whose lives have been powerfully transformed because of Graham's ministry. A layout of feature-length... Read more

The Men Commandments - Abridged

By: Christian O’Connell

Narrated by: Christian O’Connell

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Women have Bridget Jones. Men have no one. Until now.' Ricky Gervais In the best-selling tradition of Clarkson and Moyles, this is TV and Radio personality Christian O’Connell’s take on all things men. For ten years Christian has dispensed his wisdom and advice to millions of lucky radio listeners on every topic... Read more

The Giants of Irish Literature

By: George O'Brien

Narrated by: George O'Brien

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett: These four masters of Irish literature created works of startling innovation and unparalleled literary merit. They defied popular expectations and confounded critics with unique masterpieces that one might think of as puzzles, the solution of which lies at the heart of the modern age.... Read more

The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

By: H.W. Brands

Narrated by: H.W. Brands

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A study of the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. From his early days as a printer's apprentice to very nearly his last days, Benjamin Franklin's thirst for knowledge and his desire to share what he knew brought him into the forefront of a changing world. Read more

Doris Lessing

By: Carole Klein

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of... Read more

John Bunyan - Abridged

By: John Brown

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A traveling tinker, John Bunyan accepted long imprisonment rather than give up preaching the Gospel. He explained the life of the Spirit in language the common people could understand and in pictures that stuck in the mind. When he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, his fame spread rapidly, and within fifty years of his death, the book was reputed to... Read more

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of... Read more

The Irregulars

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories. This group constituted the very beginning of what would become MI6, the British... Read more

The First Billion is the Hardest

By: T. Boone Pickens

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil,” he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States. When Pickens left Mesa after a downward spiral in the company’s profits, many counted him out.  What followed for him was the loss of 90... Read more

Hurry Down Sunshine

By: Michael Greenberg

Narrated by: Michael Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most... Read more

Tears of the Desert

By: Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima was doted on by her father, a cattle herder, and kept in line by her formidable grandmother. A politically astute man, Halima’s father saw to it that his daughter received a good education away from their rural surroundings. Halima excelled in her studies and exams, surpassing even the... Read more

The Necklace

By: Cheryl Jarvis & Women of Jewelia

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jonell McLain saw the diamond necklace in the store window, it aroused first desire, then a provocative question: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful, yet accessible to so few? What if we shared what we desired? A dozen phone calls and a leap of faith later, Jonell bought the necklace with twelve other women, with the goal of sharing it.... Read more

The Road of Lost Innocence

By: Somaly Mam

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human... Read more

Zen and Now

By: Mark Richardson

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a powerful blend of personal narrative and philosophical investigation that has inspired generations. Among the millions of readers to fall under the... Read more

Jack - Abridged

By: Geoffrey Perret

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There has been no complete biography like this one. Jack deals with the full scope of Kennedy's life - his family, his friends, his infidelities. There's much to say, much culled from hundreds of hours of tapes from the Oval Office. Through painstaking research, Geoffrey Perret located thousands of revealing documents on national security issues... Read more

Sarah

By: Kaylene Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Palin, a hockey mom and small town mayor, thought her dream of making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over when she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican Party and went head-to-head with the powerful Republican governor. In 2006, she became a long-shot candidate for governor, demanding a higher... Read more