Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Charlatan

By: Pope Brock

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time.



This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men. "Doctor" John Brinkley became a world renowned authority on sexual rejuvenation in the 1920s, with famous politicians and even royalty asking for... Read more

Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East

By: Deborah Kanafani

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a series of chance encounters, young Deborah was introduced to Marwan Kanafani, a dashing former... Read more

Fidel Castro: My Life

By: Fidel Castro & Ignacio Ramonet

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Todd McLaren

Length: 26 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank... Read more

Dizzy

By: Jonah Winter

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed biographer for children, Jonah Winter brings historical figures to life for young listeners. Here he turns his talents to jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Born into poverty and the victim of vicious parental abuses, Dizzy received a trumpet one day and it changed his life forever. Dizzy follows Gillespie's journey from... Read more

Twilight at Monticello

By: Alan Pell Crawford

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama—one of the greatest—played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation's physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an... Read more

Rock On

By: Dan Kennedy

Narrated by: Dan Kennedy

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you land a sweet six-figure marketing gig at the hallowed record label known for having signed everyone from Led Zeppelin to Stone Temple Pilots? You start with a resume like Dan Kennedy's:


• Dressed up as a member of Kiss every Halloween
• Memorized Led Zeppelin IV at age ten
• Fronted a lip-sync band in junior high
• Worked as a college DJ... Read more

Father Joe

By: Tony Hendra

Narrated by: Tony Hendra

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955,... Read more

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing.Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the... Read more

Dog Days

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly sociable steer named Elvis all contribute to the hum (and occasional roar) of Bedlam. On... Read more

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

By: Samuel Pepys

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633 and died in Clapham in 1703. In his life, he was Secretary of Naval Affairs and President of the Royal Society, mingling with the greatest of the land. He lived through civil war, plague, and the greatest fire London has suffered outside of the Blitz in World War II. In 1660, at the age of 27, he began a... Read more

The Good Rat

By: Jimmy Breslin

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson, Kaipo Schwab & Richard Mover

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving us a view through the keyhole of the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like Sammy the Bull, the original snitch, and Gaspipe Casso, named for his weapon of choice; and hangouts like Pep... Read more

Not the Girl Next Door

By: Charlotte Chandler

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

She was beautiful, talented, irascible, ruthless, vulnerable, and a true Hollywood legend. From abused child to dance-hall entertainer to silent-film actress, she went on to become one of Hollywood’s screen goddesses with films such as Possessed opposite Clark Gable, with whom she began a torrid off-screen affair, Grand Hotel, and Mildred... Read more

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

By: David Shields

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an... Read more

Did Lincoln Own Slaves?

By: Gerald J. Prokopowicz

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Our most revered president gets a unique and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent—and most unusual and surprising—questions asked about Abraham Lincoln.



What kind of law did Lincoln practice? Did he imprison his political enemies? What was it in his youth that put him on the path to greatness? These are some... Read more

Strong at the Broken Places

By: Richard M. Cohen

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In an extension of his New York Times bestselling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and of their families. These "citizens of sickness," as Cohen calls them, were selected for the diversity of their ages, races, socioeconomic positions, illness... Read more

Cooked

By: Jeff Henderson

Narrated by: Jeff Henderson

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting memoir is the incredible story of Jeff Henderson's rollercoaster ride from high-stakes cocaine dealer to prison inmate to world-class chef. Barely old enough to drink legally, Henderson was clearing $35,000 per week as one of the most successful cocaine dealers in San Diego. But when he was 23, he was indicted on federal drug... Read more

Lords of the Earth

By: Raymond Todd & Don Richardson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Peace Child, Don Richardson, comes Lords of the Earth, an unforgettable story of missionary tenacity and zeal that sold over 100,000 copies in the hardcover edition. // Engulfed in the darkness of Irian Jaya’s Snow Mountains live the Yali–naked cannibals who call themselves “lords of the earth.” Yet in terror and bondage they... Read more

Aim High

By: Tanni Grey-Thompson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspirational story of Britain's greatest paralympian.
In Seoul in 1988, Tanni Grey-Thompson represented Great Britain and won her first Paralympic medal - the 400m bronze. It was the beginning of an outstanding career leading to an astonishing sixteen medals - eleven of which are gold - countless European titles, six London Marathons and... Read more

Beautiful Boy

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne LamottNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.What had happened to... Read more

Under the Duvet

By: Marian Keyes

Narrated by: Marian Keyes

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Duvet brings together Marian Keyes' unputdownable and utterly irresistible journalism and musings on life. Whether its shopping, travel, feminism or fashion, Marian takes us on a riotous anecdote-packed journey into her weird and wonderful world. There are adventures with fake tan, love affairs with shoes and nail varnish, and, as a... Read more

The Bush Tragedy

By: Jacob Weisberg

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first important consideration of the George W. Bush presidency and its profound impact on the state of the world, Jacob Weisberg traces the evolution of Bush’s political philosophy from its roots in his early life and his years as governor of Texas through the events of 9/11 and his turbulent two terms in office. With careful analyses,... Read more

A Bound Man

By: Shelby Steele

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illuminating examination of the complex racial issues that confront presidential candidate Barack Obama in his race for the White House, a quest that will be one of those galvanizing occasions that forces a national dialogue on the current state of race relations... Read more

The People's Tycoon

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car... Read more

A Personal Stand

By: Trace Adkins

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work,... Read more