Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

By: Erik Sherman

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in a remote Mexican town, the left-hander had moved to the US less than two years before. He became an instant icon and there hasn't been a player since who created as many Dodgers fans.



After the Dodgers' move to... Read more

The Bomb Doctor

By: Selene Yeager & Kirk Yeager

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is not CSI. What you encounter as a true bomb detective—or "Bomb Doctor," as some in the FBI call me—are fields of twisted metal containing soot-covered fragments intermingled with human remains. You have carnage and chaos. As you wade into that sea of wailing sirens and screaming survivors awash with the stench of diesel fuel and decaying... Read more

Kissing Girls on Shabbat

By: Sara Glass

Narrated by: Sara Glass

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“A searing testament to the strength in claiming one’s destiny.” —The Washington Post

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman’s desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.

Growing up in the Hasidic community of... Read more

Getting to Know Death

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Getting to Know Death by Gail Godwin, read by Rosemary Benson.

"Getting to Know Death could just as easily be called Getting to Know Life. As a meditation, it is both unsentimental and full of wonder. As a piece of writing, it stands beside the best of Godwin’s fiction. Extraordinary." —Ann Patchett

From New York... Read more

Still Pictures

By: Janet Malcolm

Narrated by: Maria Tucci

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life—a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly... Read more

What Kind of Bird Can't Fly

By: Dorsey Nunn

Narrated by: Jeremy (Midnite) Michael Durm

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.



When Dorsey Nunn shuffled, shackled like a slave, into the California State carceral system at age nineteen, he could barely read. While caged he received an education he never could have anticipated. His first lesson: Prison had a color... Read more

The Journey

By: Sara Ann Key

Narrated by: Issie Riley

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Do I attract tragedy? Should I have made better choices? Why is my life and the lives of those before me so plagued? If I got another go, what would I do differently and why?
Riches to rags, happiness to despair, for better or worse – this is me.
On a journey to find out if love, trust, and faith in oneself is the key to breaking the... Read more

My Vietnam, Your Vietnam

By: Nghia M. Vo & Christina Vo

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland, as they search for common ground and a path toward mutual... Read more

North of Nowhere

By: Marie Wilson

Narrated by: Marie Wilson

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to record the previously hidden history of more than a century of forced residential schooling for Indigenous children. Marie Wilson helped lead... Read more

I AM: HERE

By: Claudia Beasley, Michael Beasley, Abigail Willi...

Narrated by: Candace Berry

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book about my faith journey from a young adult to my senior years. Being a survivor of COVID, I knew the LORD still had a purpose for my life. I listened to the voice in my heart and knew I needed to write this book as an encouragement to others. Events happen in life that can cause us to see ourselves as victims or survivors. I choose... Read more

A Hero on Mount St. Helens

By: Melanie Holmes

Narrated by: Jeff Renner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team conducting scientific research that underpinned warnings about the mountain. Those warnings saved thousands of lives when the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history blew... Read more

Playing from the Rough

By: Jimmie James

Narrated by: Jimmie James

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A “wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination,” (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man’s quest to become the first person to play each of America’s 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the... Read more

Ben & Me

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Part biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for living a purposeful and virtuous life.

Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US... Read more

Neville Goddard - Kursvorlesungen - Die 5 Lektionen (Master Class - Five Lessons 1948)

By: Fabio Mantegna

Narrated by: Konrad Lindemann

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Neville Goddard (Deutsch): Kursvorlesungen - Die 5 Lektionen - Originaltitel: Master Class - Five Lessons - aus dem Jahre 1948. Ein Bonus-Buch der Serie Neville Goddard: Alle 14 Original Bücher auf Deutsch. Kursvorlesungen - Die 5 Lektionen ist die deutsche Übersetzung von Master Class - Five Lessons aus dem Jahre 1948. Es ist das 1.... Read more

Traveling

By: Ann Powers

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying... Read more

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution

By: Jane Kamensky

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star,... Read more

Under a Rock

By: Chris Stein

Narrated by: Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, Dennis Boutsikaris &...

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword written and read by Debbie Harry. The main text is read by Dennis Boutsikaris, known for his roles in Better Call Saul, The Good Wife, and Sugar. It also includes "Heartbreak Kid," a song from the upcoming Blondie album.

"A Downtown Memory" is written and read by Romy Ashby.

Debbie Harry defined iconic band... Read more

Math in Drag

By: Kyne Santos

Narrated by: Kyne Santos

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Join sensational drag queen Kyne Santos on an extraordinary journey through the glamorous world of … math?This sassy book is your VIP pass, taking you behind the scenes with a TikTok superstar who shatters stereotypes and proves that math can be fascinating and fun, even for people who think they aren’t good at it.With her irreverent style and... Read more

The Uptown Local

By: Cory Leadbeater

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction—and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days... Read more

T-Shirt Swim Club

By: Ian Karmel & Alisa Karmel, PsyD

Narrated by: Ian Karmel & Alisa Karmel, PsyD

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from his sister, Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and why it’s so hard to talk about something so visible.

“As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Ian Karmel has weighed eight pounds and he... Read more

Así veo las cosas

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Jorge Ramos, Joel Luna & Annie González

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro más personal, íntimo y revelador de Jorge Ramos en casi cien columnas y tres puentes.   "Jorge Ramos […] es una persona íntegra y de esas hay muy pocas en este mundo. A leer estas páginas de su memoria me entero de algunos secretos, me entretengo, me conmuevo y me reencuentro con el amigo de siempre, con el periodista que me pone al día... Read more

This Thread of Gold

By: Catherine Joy White

Narrated by: Catherine Joy White

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism

From gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond.

This immersive and... Read more

The Path to Self-Love

By: Ruby Dhal

Narrated by: Ruby Dhal

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw and honest guide to cultivating self-love, balancing it with loving others, and unlocking your healing journey, from the poet and Instagram sensation

“A sanctuary of comfort and self-discovery.”—Vex King

Self-love is not as simple as it sounds. It’s more than basic self-care practices or indulging your every desire—done right, it’s the key... Read more

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

By: Glynnis MacNicol

Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delight, the literary equivalent of a long catch-up with a brilliant friend.” —New York Times

“One of the most talked-about books of the year.” —Gayle King

When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie?

Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of... Read more