Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Horatio's Drive

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns & Tom Hanks

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.

In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who... Read more

My Anecdotal Life

By: Carl Reiner

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

More than once, friends of Carl Reiner said, “You ought to write those things down.” And at the age of eighty, Carl finally did. In this funny and engaging memoir, Reiner recounts his show business life in short comic takes. After answering an ad for free acting classes, he forsook a budding vocation as a machinist for an acting career. Reiner... Read more

Benjamin Franklin - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more

Living History - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword​​

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor... Read more

True Notebooks

By: Mark Salzman

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

I Am Alive! - Abridged

By: Charles Jackson & Major Bruce H. Norton

Narrated by: John Henry Cox

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a prisoner... Read more

Visions From a Foxhole - Abridged

By: William Foley

Narrated by: Jim Soreiro

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II

Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent straight to the front lines, arriving January 25, 1945–just in... Read more

King Cohn

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: John Landis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Cohn was the cofounder and president of Columbia Pictures, which he ran from the 1930s thru 1950s, producing such classics as It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and All the King's Men. Cohn—who abhorred personal publicity—left no writings, made no speeches, and rarely submitted to interviews. Despite this, acclaimed... Read more

Dry

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past.

"I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, ‘Darren, would you like me to fix you a... Read more

General Ike - Abridged

By: John Eisenhower

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.

General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more

Perfect Enough

By: George Anders

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bestselling work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner George Anders presents a behind-the-scenes account of a struggle that rocked Wall Street and stunned the computer industry.

When Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she was venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men’s... Read more

Into Africa - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more

The Hill Fights - Abridged

By: Edward F. Murphy

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.

Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and... Read more

In the Presence of My Enemies - Abridged

By: Gracia Burnham

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner!

Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham... Read more

The Majesty of the Law - Abridged

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more

What Kind of Nation

By: James F. Simon

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than 150 years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic... Read more

I Am the Central Park Jogger - Abridged

By: Trisha Meili

Narrated by: Trisha Meili

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this... Read more

To Conquer the Air - Abridged

By: James Tobin

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in... Read more

Skinny Women Are Evil - Abridged

By: Mo'Nique

Narrated by: Mo'Nique

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now in paperback, popular comedienne and television star Mo'Nique tells us how to be a big woman in a small woman's world.

It is NO secret that I am a BIG girl.

Always have been, always will be.

The only way I'll ever wear a size 6, or even a 16, is if you add them together. That's right: I wear a size 22. And I'm proud, because I wear it well.
... Read more

My Losing Season

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
 
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military... Read more

Ich sollte der Nächste sein (Ungekürzt)

By: Leoluca Orlando

Narrated by: Moritz Bleibtreu

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste... Read more

The Story of My Father

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Sue Miller

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final... Read more