Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Real Animal House

By: Chris Miller

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Animal House at last tells the real story of the fraternity that inspired the iconic film-a story far more outrageous (and funny!) than any movie could ever capture. Animal House, the film adaptation of stories Chris Miller published in National Lampoon about his experiences at a Dartmouth fraternity, is among the most beloved and... Read more

Inside the Jihad

By: Omar Nasiri

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, a first person account of life inside the Jihad...



This is a detailed portrait of the complex man who fought on both sides. From Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground in the 1990s, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, Omar Nasiri offers a unique and chilling perspective, on both the rise... Read more

Orange County Choppers

By: Mikey Teutul, Paul Teutul, Sr. & Paul Teutul, Jr.

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Each week, millions of viewers tune into The Discovery Channel to watch their favorite dysfunctional American family, the Teutuls. The hit TV show American Chopper features Paul Teutul, Sr., and his sons Paul, Jr. and Mikey, along with a supporting cast of mechanics and friends. Together, they create some of the most incredible and outrageous... Read more

Patriotic Treason

By: Evan Carton

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes — as a madman, martyr, or enigma. Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy-and the staggering sacrifices he made for his... Read more

Essential Vonnegut Interviews

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more

Master of the Senate

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 53 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more

Walt Disney

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with... Read more

My Trade - Abridged

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: Andrew Marr

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage to look in the mirror after the way they sometimes... Read more

Facing Down Evil

By: Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No ordinary Washington memoir, Facing Down Evil is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. As the FBI's premier hostage negotiator, Clint Van Zandt worked or consulted on some of recent U.S. history's most unsettling and high-profile conflicts, including the Waco, Oklahoma City, and... Read more

The Smart Money - Abridged

By: Michael Konik

Narrated by: Michael Konik

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An inside look at the high-stakes world of professional sports betting -- by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key gambling ring operative.

"Gamblers whisper about a legendary syndicate known as The Brain Trust because they seem to understand more about sports betting than anyone else. Though they operate in secret, everyone involved... Read more

Notorious C.O.P.

By: Matt Diehl & Derrick Parker

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap sheets before they can even hope to have a platinum record. So with all this grandstanding about their criminal nature, why haven't more hip-hop artists been busted for the crimes that they brag of,... Read more

Ship of Ghosts

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Son, we’re going to Hell."

The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of... Read more

No Shortcuts to the Top

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more

Walt Disney - Abridged

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, here is the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in American entertainment and cultural history.
From the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood to the visionary whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen,... Read more

Isabella

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-length biography of a much maligned - but astonishingly colourful - Queen of England. In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of... Read more

You're Lucky You're Funny

By: Phil Rosenthal

Narrated by: Phil Rosenthal

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Secret Life of Houdini - Abridged

By: William Kalush & Larry Sloman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.

Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions... Read more

Ship of Ghosts - Abridged

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Son, we’re going to Hell."

The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of... Read more

Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Bob Balaban

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of... Read more

Love and Louis XIV

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now,... Read more

Lessons in Becoming Myself - Abridged

By: Ellen Burstyn

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.

By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater... Read more

Love and Louis XIV - Abridged

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now,... Read more

The Blind Side

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn... Read more

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.”

Some say that... Read more