Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Absolutely American - Abridged

By: David Lipsky

Narrated by: David Lipsky

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review

As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Abridged

By: Helen Morrison

Narrated by: Helen Morrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life... Read more

Grace and Power - Abridged

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more

Funny Cide - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins & Funny Cide Ventures, LLC

Narrated by: Jamey Sheridan

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.

In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the... Read more

Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy - Abridged

By: Partha Bose

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history. In our time, his example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner (who keeps a bronze bust of Alexander in his office) to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf... Read more

Ted Williams - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more

Why Courage Matters - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.

“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more

The Bushes - Abridged

By: Peter Schweizer & Rochelle Schweizer

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.


President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace... Read more

George Herbert Walker Bush

By: Tom Wicker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker... Read more

St. Patrick of Ireland

By: Philip Freeman

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their super-natural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths.

Late in the 4th century Irish pirates captured a young, British citizen... Read more

A Man of Faith

By: David Aikman

Narrated by: David Aikman

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In time for election fever is this favorable look at how George W. Bush's faith has influenced his life and politics. Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine and the author of several books, including Great Souls, opens with Bush's startling 1999 declaration that the philosopher he most identified with was "Christ-because he... Read more

Puppetmaster

By: Richard Hack

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For over fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was the most powerful lawman in America. He was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover... Read more

Sixty Days in Combat - Abridged

By: Dean Joy

Narrated by: Don Hastings

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”

He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.

For two months in... Read more

Terrible Terry Allen - Abridged

By: Gerald Astor

Narrated by: Reathel Bean

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point—twice—ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University’s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I,... Read more

All the Way to Berlin - Abridged

By: James Megellas

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.

In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army... Read more

Mekong First Light - Abridged

By: Joseph W. Callaway, Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.”
—Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell

December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three when he arrived in Vietnam to lead forty-two untested men into... Read more

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Paul Auster & James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's... Read more

Sons of Camelot - Abridged

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Laurence Leamer

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes THE SONS OF CAMELOT, the second volume in a multi-generational history bound to be considered an American epic.Almost a year before publication, THE SONS OF CAMELOT: The Fate of an American Dynasty was already being widely discussed and... Read more

Howling at the Moon - Abridged

By: Walter Yetnikoff & David Ritz

Narrated by: Walter Yetnikoff

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Show biz memoir at its name-dropping, bridge-burning, profane best: the music industry’s most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music’s heyday.

During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels and artists such as Michael Jackson, Bruce... Read more

Why I Love Baseball

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry King was a true-blue baseball fanatic. A lifelong love affair began the night he attended a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a kid in 1940s Brooklyn. That was a simpler era in America's history, a time when tickets to a game cost fifty cents and parish priests prayed for Gil Hodges to break out of a slump. In this heartfelt valentine to... Read more

Long March to Freedom

By: Thomas R. Hargrove

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the hit movie Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The... Read more

Blindsided

By: Richard M. Cohen

Narrated by: Richard M. Cohen & Richard Ferrone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening NewsRichard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed with colon cancer twice in recent years, Cohen... Read more

Love in the Driest Season - Abridged

By: Neely Tucker

Narrated by: Neely Tucker

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to... Read more

Nancy

By: Michael Deaver

Narrated by: Michael Deaver

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever publishedNancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily private one. Now Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know.The woman... Read more