Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The House at Sugar Beach

By: Helene Cooper

Narrated by: Helene Cooper

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York... Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century

In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the... Read more

The First Billion Is the Hardest - Abridged

By: T. Boone Pickens

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil Dependency

It’s never too late to top your personal best.

Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in... Read more

God's Smuggler

By: Brother Andrew & John Sherill

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy - undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name, and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. This bestseller tells of the young Dutch factory worker's incredible efforts to transport Bibles across closed... Read more

Thin Is the New Happy

By: Valerie Frankel

Narrated by: Marie Caliendo

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Val Frankel is a woman of amazing insight. . . . Read this, weep, and heal."—Stacy London, cohost of What Not to WearYou've heard the phrase "the mirror is not your friend." For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than "not a friend." It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies' room, and cut the... Read more

Ahead of the Curve

By: Philip Delves Broughton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the century since its founding, Harvard Business School has become the single most influential institution in global business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and... Read more

Heavenly Man

By: Paul Hattaway & Brother Yun

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

You've seen the headlines - government crackdowns on Chinese house churches; mass arrests and human rights violations...But this intensely dramatic Autobiography makes it real! Learn how God took a young half-starved boy from Henan Province and enabled him to stand strong on the front lines for Jesus, braving horrific opposition and impossible... Read more

Knee Deep in Paradis - Abridged

By: Brett Butler

Narrated by: Brett Butler

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonable certain would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My dad anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that time thinking he was gone because of something I did." So begins Brett Butler's extraordinary memoir, the... Read more

The Kennedys at War

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Edward J. Renehan, Jr., author of The Lion's Pride, focuses on the World War II era to craft a welcome addition to the Kennedy literature. Renehan shows how family patriarch Joseph was an ambitious but occasionally embarrassing diplomat, while wartime disaster elevated second son John to great heights. Sisters Kathleen and... Read more

Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage

By: Joe Wheeler

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together.  But for all that's been written, little has focused on his faith and how this quality shaped the man who led our country during its most tumultuous years.  Author Joe Wheeler, historian and... Read more

Epilogue

By: Anne Roiphe

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her... Read more

The Man on Mao's Right

By: Ji Chaozhu

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China's foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest,... Read more

After the Fire

By: Robin Gaby Fisher

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 19, 2000, a fire raged through the freshman dormitory at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, killing three students and injuring fifty-eight others. Among the victims were Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, roommates from poor neighborhoods who made their families proud by getting into college. They managed to escape the... Read more

I Am Spock - Abridged

By: Leonard Nimoy

Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Best known to the world as the actor who created the legendary Mr. Spock in the cult television series that launched the Star Trek phenomenon, Leonard Nimoy has written the definitive Star Trek memoir. In this long-awaited autobiography, Nimoy opens up to his fans in ways the Vulcan never could.Having played the pivotal role of Mr. Spock in the... Read more

Grumpy Old Rock Star

By: Rick Wakeman

Narrated by: Rick Wakeman

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick.

Rick was a likable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making trouble, and music became Rick's life. Later he... Read more

Joel

By: Joel Sonnenberg

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Joel Sonnenberg was only two years old when an 18-wheeler smashed into his family’s car. In the inferno that followed, he was burned on over 85 percent of his body. This is his story as only he can tell it.Experience the world from Joel’s perspective as he takes you on a personal journey with more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie. It’s... Read more

The New New Thing

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Bruce Reizen

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then... Read more

Step By Step

By: Bertie Bowman

Narrated by: Bob Stewart

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From sharecropper's son in Depression-era South Carolina to hearing coordinator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bowman shares his inspiring life story. Born in Summerton, S.C., in 1931, young Bertie was raised by his stepmother and strict father to do his share of the farm work, in the spirit of molding a man's character by "hard... Read more

Heroes Among Us

By: Major Chuck Larson

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 1 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past four years, but fewer than 500 from this group have earned a Silver Star, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, or the Medal of Honor. Those who have been awarded these distinguished honors all demonstrated an extraordinary courage under fire in the... Read more

Divided Soul - Abridged

By: David Ritz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges here is a... Read more

The Night of the Gun

By: David Carr

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”

Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview... Read more

Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his undergraduate years at... Read more

Bikeman

By: Thomas F. Flynn

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

I live to talk about it, to relate the tale as it happens, not only its extremities and cruelty, but also the goodness that flourishes too. Seasoned journalist Tom Flynn shares his experiences on that “forever September morning” from his perspective as a journalist and neutral observer who stands apart from the event, but also as a participant,... Read more

Free Byrd

By: Paul Byrd

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd gives an honest account of how he has kept his faith in God despite all the trials and temptions associated with the Major League Baseball lifestyle. Read more