Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Soloist

By: Steve Lopez

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—now a major motion picture from DreamWorks starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he found it impossible to... Read more

Girls Like Us

By: Sheila Weller

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in... Read more

In Nixon's Web

By: Ed Gray & L. Patrick Gray III

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate's most shocking acts—Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate... Read more

The Man Who Made Lists

By: Joshua Kendall

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Mark Roget—polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado—was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues—not to mention a host of female admirers. But, most notably, Roget made lists.



From the age of eight, Roget kept these lists... Read more

Farewell, My Subaru

By: Doug Fine

Narrated by: Doug Fine

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? In an attempt to find out, Fine up and moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly... Read more

That Mean Old Yesterday

By: Stacey Patton

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Stacey Patton penned this moving memoir describing her tumultuous childhood growing up first in a state institution and then in a fractured foster family. She makes a strong case to illustrate how the brutal legacy of slavery continues to affect African-American families today. "... a document ... striking in... Read more

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle - Abridged

By: Robyn Scott

Narrated by: Robyn Scott

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Read more

The Last Lecture

By: Randy Pausch

Narrated by: Eric Singer

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic."We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy PauschA lot of professors give talks titled "The Last... Read more

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - Abridged

By: George Johnson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.

Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious... Read more

Heart in the Right Place

By: Carolyn Jourdan

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office-assured it would only be for a few days. "Jourdan's dispatches from the reception desk make for a stirring, beautiful memoir that is alternately... Read more

Maya Angelou

By: Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler & Ric...

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Maya Angelou’s memoirs, essay and poetry collections, and cookbooks have sold millions of copies. Now, Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by the people who know her best—her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long, and... Read more

Playing With the Enemy

By: Gary Moore

Narrated by: Toby Moore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time. Before that could happen, though, WWII intervened. Gene's story, a surprising paean to the power and humanity of a game, is told here by his son, a first-time author... Read more

Home

By: Julie Andrews

Narrated by: Julie Andrews

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult... Read more

Flory

By: Flory A. Van Beek

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Like Anne Frank, Flory Van Beek was a young girl caught in the ruthless Nazi occupation of Holland—but Flory survived to recount her extraordinary story of persecution and survival.Flory and her husband, Felix, endured the sinking of a ship bound for safety in the New World, the increasing danger of the occupation, and finally a life in hiding.... Read more

Two Wars

By: Nate Self

Narrated by: Nate Self

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, Army Ranger hero Nate Self tells his story. Self recounts the Roberts Ridge Rescue mission, the ferocious battles in Afghanistan, and the lone war of attrition that Nate Self has waged against post-traumatic stress disorder. This book will become a go-to audiobook for understanding the long-term effects of the war on terror.... Read more

Mistaken Identity

By: Don & Susie Van Ryn & Newell, Colleen & Whitney...

Narrated by: Lillian Thayer

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family.

Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed to the hospital, where she remained in a coma for five... Read more

Breaking Free

By: Herschel Walker

Narrated by: Andre Teamer

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Breaking Free, Herschel tells his story -- from the joys and hardships of childhood to his explosive impact on college football to his remarkable professional career. And he gives voice and hope to those suffering from DID. Herschel shows how this disorder played an integral role in his accomplishments and how he has learned to live with it... Read more

A Remarkable Mother

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president.

A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially... Read more

Lewis & Clark - Abridged

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns & Adam Arkin

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.

In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the newly acquired Louisiana... Read more

The Bin Ladens - Abridged

By: Steve Coll

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap

"Riveting . . . The most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

In The Bin Ladens, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll continues where Ghost Wars left off, shedding new light on one... Read more

The Ditchdigger's Daughters

By: Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. & Jo Coudert

Narrated by: Fran L. Washington

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Thornton was a ditchdigger who wanted more for his six daughters, saying: "I love you better than I love life," he assured his children. "But I'm not always gonna be around to look after you, and no man's gonna come along and offer to take care of you because you ain't light-skinned. That's why you gotta be able to look after... Read more

The Translator

By: Daoud Hari

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.

The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur.

The... Read more

Double or Nothing

By: Tom Breitling & Cal Fussman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

If Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had come of age at the end of the twentieth century looking for an all-American adventure, they probably would've headed for Vegas. However, they'd have been hard-pressed to go on a wilder ride than the one taken by Tom Breitling and Tim Poster to the top of the famed Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino.



Call them the Odds... Read more

The Lodger Shakespeare

By: Charles Nicholl

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Charles Nicholl presents a brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life.

In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster; it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine—a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry—but it... Read more