Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Shakespeare

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the big one from Peter Ackroyd — and a worthy companion to London: The Biography.

Only Peter Ackroyd can combine readable narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of... Read more

Churchill and America

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.



Winston Churchill, whose mother, Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a leading American... Read more

Jack

By: Jack Welch & John A. Byrne

Narrated by: Mike Barnicle

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

The most widely respected CEO in America looks back on his brilliant career at General Electric and reveals his personal business philosophy and unique managerial style.
Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch's office and wrapped him in a bear hug. "Congratulations, Mr. Chairman," said Reg. It was a... Read more

Dean and Me

By: Jerry Lewis

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. 

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined... Read more

God's Choice - Abridged

By: George Weigel

Narrated by: George Weigel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

George Weigel's New York Times bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era.
When... Read more

The Education of a Coach - Abridged

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership. Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this groundbreaking book, David Halberstam explores the nuances of... Read more

Leading with the Heart - Abridged

By: Mike Krzyzewski & Donald T. Phillips

Narrated by: Mike Krzyzewski

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this informative and inspirational book, Coach K, Duke University's head basketball coach, tells readers how he coaxes peak performances from his team, relying on lessons he learned as a captain in the U.S. Army.

Duke University's head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has proved himself a leader both on and off the court. He's led the Duke... Read more

Reason for Hope - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall & Phillip Berman

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope.

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.... Read more

My Life with the Chimpanzees - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing... Read more

The Beatles - Abridged

By: Bob Spitz

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, Abridged

Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now.
The product of almost a decade of... Read more

Growing Up King - Abridged

By: Dexter Scott King

Narrated by: Dexter Scott King

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the bestselling tradition of such family portraits as Brooke Hayward's Haywire and Christopher Dickey's Summer of Deliverance comes a disarmingly candid memoir from the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dexter King was only seven when an assassin's bullet took his father's life, shattering the boy's childhood. And as he stumbled into... Read more

How I Play Golf - Abridged

By: Tiger Woods

Narrated by: Walter Franks

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the first time, champion Tiger Woods reveals the five secrets to his amazing success - a combination of physical, metaphysical and psychological practices he uses daily to keep his game in top shape. Read more

Jackie, Ethel, Joan - Abridged

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Beth Fowler

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family and became forever linked in legend.
Set against the panorama of explosive American history, this unique story offers a rarely-seen look at the relationship shared among the three women -- during the Camelot years and beyond. Whether dealing with... Read more

Thieves of Baghdad - Abridged

By: Matthew Bogdanos

Narrated by: Matthew Bogdanos

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures.

A blend of treasure hunt, police procedural, war-time thriller, and exposé of the international black-market in stolen art, told in the voice of a truly remarkable man: a soldier, a father, and a scholar.

The New York tabloids call him... Read more

Do As I Say (Not As I Do)

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children’s rights, consumer rights, and more. But do they actually live by these beliefs? Peter Schweizer decided to investigate the... Read more

Rolling Nowhere

By: Ted Conover

Narrated by: Ted Conover

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds. Around me fell the shadow of the viaduct that carried a highway over the railroad yards. From the edge of the yards, I squinted as I watched the railroad cars being switched from track to track. Cars and trucks were rolling over the viaduct, but what occupied my attention was the dark, cool... Read more

Dean and Me - Abridged

By: Jerry Lewis & James Kaplan

Narrated by: Gregory Jbara

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got... Read more

Team of Rivals - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more

Two Lives - Abridged

By: Vikram Seth

Narrated by: Vikram Seth

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

""The heartrending story of a two people, a marriage, and a century from the author of A Suitable Boy. . . . “[A] thoughtful, evocative, moving book.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldTwo Lives is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar... Read more

The River of Doubt - Abridged

By: Candice Millard

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the... Read more

Under and Alone - Abridged

By: William Queen

Narrated by: William Queen

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

My Friend Leonard

By: James Frey

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with My Friend Leonard. After a stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab, Leonard. A largerthan- life mobster, Leonard becomes James' loyal and... Read more

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - Abridged

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: James Shapiro

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, ""succeed[ing] where others have fallen short."" (Boston Globe)1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year,... Read more

First Man - Abridged

By: James R. Hansen

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.

When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty... Read more