Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Enchantment

By: Donald Spoto

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again.  

Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as... Read more

My American Journey - Abridged

By: Colin L. Powell & Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Colin L. Powell

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined... Read more

I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This - Abridged

By: Bob Newhart

Narrated by: Bob Newhart

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first book ever from an icon of American comedy -- a hilarious combination of stories from his career and observations about life

That stammer. Those basset-hound eyes. That bone-dry wit. There has never been another comedian like Bob Newhart. His comedy albums, movies, and two hit television series have made him a national treasure and... Read more

The Confession - Abridged

By: James E. McGreevey

Narrated by: James E. McGreevey

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he declared ""My truth is that I am a gay American,"" and announced his resignation. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise, and redemption. From childhood, McGreevey lived a kind of idealized... Read more

Marie Antoinette

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII.  France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded... Read more

Inside My Heart

By: Robin McGraw

Narrated by: Robin McGraw

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

I believe we were put on this earth to enjoy lives of joy and abundance, and that is what I want for you and for me. It's not my intention to give people advice on how to solve their problems (I leave that to my husband). But I've had my share of struggles over the years, and I know a thing or two about what has worked for me. I have chosen to... Read more

Me and a Guy Named Elvis

By: Chuck Crisafulli & Jerry Schilling

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ona lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year old Elvis Presley, the local teenage whose first record, "That's All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the... Read more

Running with Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a... Read more

Running with Scissors - Abridged

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve,... Read more

Chuck Klosterman IV - Abridged

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously... Read more

The Ice Man

By: Philip Carlo

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Now, after 240 hours of face-to-face interviews with Kuklinski and his wife and daughters, author Philip Carlo... Read more

The Discomfort Zone

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Daring, honest, and written with the comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that marks Franzen's fiction, The Discomfort Zone tells of the formation of one young mind in the crucible of an everyday American family. Read more

In the Name of the Father

By: Francois Furstenberg

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.



How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of... Read more

Wins, Losses, and Lessons - Abridged

By: Lou Holtz

Narrated by: Lou Holtz

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When I die and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. For reasons known only to God, I was asked to write an autobiography. Most people who knew me growing up didn't think I would ever read a book, let alone write one.—Lou HoltzFew people in the history of college sports... Read more

Invincible

By: Vince Papale

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1976, Vince Papale was a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher, part-time bartender, and season ticket holder for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he’d grown up rooting for. He had always loved football, but the closest he’d ever come to playing on Sundays was in local rough touch leagues. Until fate stepped in.Vince was thirty years old and... Read more

Is It Me?

By: Terry Wogan

Narrated by: Terry Wogan

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Wogan is one of Britain’s best-loved radio and television celebrities. Witty, charming and relaxed: he has undoubtedly captured the nation’s heart. Here, Terry tells his life story from his beginnings as a young Limerick boy to his incredible success as an enduring celebrity with shows such as ‘Wogan’ and ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’. ... Read more

Mommies Who Drink

By: Brett Paesel

Narrated by: Brett Paesel

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Wickedly funny and irreverent, yet deeply honest and touching, Mommies Who Drink confronts a brave new world of motherhood. Read more

Babylon by Bus

By: Ray LeMoine, Jeff Neumann & Donovan Webster

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book. Read more

Microthrills

By: Wendy Spero

Narrated by: Wendy Spero

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore “nine inches of shoulder pads”), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning—from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives door-to-door. As a little girl, Spero passed the time... Read more

Maybe You Never Cry Again - Abridged

By: Bernie Mac

Narrated by: Bernie Mac

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is todayBy the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie... Read more

Running with Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's... Read more

Grayson

By: Lynne Cox

Narrated by: Lynne Cox

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An early-morning workout becomes an enchanting adventure when a record-holding swimmer reunites a baby whale and its mother. An inspiring, irresistible story for all ages, from the beloved author of Swimming to Antarctica.It’s five o’clock in the morning and still dark. Swimming outside the wave break off the Catalina coast, training for her... Read more

The Sound of No Hands Clapping

By: Toby Young

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling-and laugh-out-loud funny How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.



When even his friends refer to him in print as "a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet, and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane," the odds of Toby Young scoring—in any... Read more

A Soldier's Promise - Abridged

By: First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border... Read more