Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Don't Get Too Comfortable

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is... Read more

Mark Twain - Abridged

By: Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron Powers

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles Times

A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became... Read more

Andrew Jackson

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 25 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.

The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first... Read more

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances.

“My mother didn’t try to... Read more

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Abridged

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Alan Alda

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances.

“My mother didn’t try to... Read more

Christoph Columbus - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Peter Bertram, Achim Höppner & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Christoph Columbus ist kein Jüngling mehr, als er am 3. August 1492 mit den drei Schiffen "Santa Maria", "Pinta" und "Nina" von Spanien aus aufbricht, um den Seeweg nach Indien zu entdecken. Jahrelang hatte er vergeblich versucht, das portugiesische und spanische Königshaus davon zu überzeugen, dass man nur lange genug nach Westen segeln müsse,... Read more

Marco Polo: Il Milione - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg & Werner Linke

Narrated by: Christian Hoening, Achim Höppner & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Kaiser, Könige und Fürsten, Ritter und Bürger - und ihr alle, ihr Wissbegierigen, die ihr die verschiedenen Rassen und die Mannigfaltigkeit der Länder dieser Welt kennen lernen wollt - nehmt dies Buch und lasst es euch vorlesen. Merkwürdiges und Wunderbares findet ihr darin und ihr werdet erfahren, wie sich Groß-Armenien, Persien, die Tartarei,... Read more

Talking Back - Abridged

By: Andrea Mitchell

Narrated by: Andrea Mitchell

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A frank, highly engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir by one of today's most respected journalists.

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Dear Me - Abridged

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: Peter Ustinov

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more

My Detachment

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This... Read more

The Tender Ba - Abridged

By: J. R. Moehringer

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Abridged

By: Terry Ryan

Narrated by: Terry Ryan

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the “contest era” of the 1950s and 1960s.

Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, and everyday people saw possibility in every coupon, Terry... Read more

Copy This!

By: Paul Orfalea & Ann Marsh

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Copy This!, Paul Orfalea's inspiring personal story of turning lessons into lemonade, may be the most unusual business memoir ever published.

Paul Orfalea struggles mightily to read, to write, and to sit still through business meetings. So what's the problem? By working with the obstacles life dealt him–he call his dyslexia and ADHD "learning... Read more

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Tom Robbins & Debra Winger

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to... Read more

The Kennedy Men - Abridged

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Laurence Leamer

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this triumphant new work already hailed as a powerful American epic, Laurence Leamer chronicles the Kennedy men and their struggle to become the most powerful family in the United States. The Kennedy Men brings to life five bold, ambitious men. The Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was one of the richest, strongest men in America's... Read more

From Pieces to Weight - Abridged

By: 50 Cent

Narrated by: J.D. Williams

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the New York Times bestseller From Pieces to Weight, rap mogul 50 Cent, a.k.a. Curtis Jackson, lifts the veil on his complicated life, from the murder of his mother when he was twelve, to hustling on the streets; from the assassination attempt that nearly finished him to his meteoric rise to the top of hip hop royalty.

This violent and... Read more

Copy This! - Abridged

By: Paul Orfalea & Ann Marsh

Narrated by: Todd Cummings

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No business autobiography has ever let it all hang out like this one. In building an unconventionally democratic multinational company that has been named by Fortune, Forbes, and Working Mother magazines as one of the best places to work in America, Paul Orfalea never tamed his impulsive, rebellious nature, and he discusses his flaws and... Read more

See No Evil

By: Robert Baer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“See No Evil is a compelling account of America’s failed efforts to ‘listen in’ on the rest of the world, especially the parts of it that intend to do us harm.”—The Wall Street Journal

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling... Read more

Three Weeks with My Brother

By: Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.

As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both... Read more

One L

By: Scott Turow

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades after Scott Turow entered law school comes an all new unabridged production of this classic with a special introduction by and interview with the author

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a bestseller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not... Read more

Flyboys

By: James Bradley

Narrated by: James Bradley

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.

Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots... Read more

Shooter

By: Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin USMC, ret. & Casey K...

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps’ top-ranked sniper, the man who personally brings America’s military muscle to the enemy’s front door. Shooter is his harrowing first-person account of a sniper’s life on and off the modern battlefield.At the age of nineteen, Coughlin joined the Marines and... Read more

Paris 1919

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 25 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were... Read more

One Magical Sunday

By: Phil Mickelson & Donald T. Phillips

Narrated by: Phil Mickelson, Amy Mickelson, Amanda Mickelson...

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The triumphant story of beloved golfer Phil Mickelson and the years of grit and tireless work that lead to his success, packed with personal insights and never-before-seen photos.

Every year, he came so close only to fall short. Every year, the dream grew larger, only to fade away. Yet every year, his gallery of fans grew in support of his quest.... Read more