Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Let's Roll!

By: Lisa Beamer

Narrated by: Lisa Helm

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner!
Lisa Beamer, wife of September 11 hero Todd Beamer, reveals what really happened on the ill-fated United Flight 93, and shares poignant glimpses of a genuine American hero. She talks candidly about her life with Todd and the devastating day her children learned their daddy had died, the mix of grief and joy... Read more

A Long Way From Home

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation.

In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in... Read more

Worth the Fighting For

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years.

After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain... Read more

21 Dog Years

By: Mike Daisey

Narrated by: Mike Daisey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler is the stuff... Read more

Touch the Top of the World

By: Erik Weihenmayer

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual... Read more

An Unfinished Marriage

By: Joan Anderson

Narrated by: Joan Anderson

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson documented her brave decision to take a year of solitude away from her marriage. Her frank assessment of herself in midlife and openness in sharing her fears struck a chord with thousands. In this moving sequel, Anderson gives fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their own marital passages. Using the... Read more

Master of the Senate - Abridged

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... Read more

Ronald C. White Jr: Lincoln's Greatest Speech

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In his book, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, historian Ronald White reveals how Americans, including Frederick Douglas and John Wilkes Booth, responded to the 16th president's declarations on March 4, 1865 and Lincoln's intentions. In this interview, White quotes from the book, explains why he believes the speech was Lincoln's... Read more

Master of the Senate

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more

Master of the Senate

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more

Charles Dickens

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels." Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly... Read more

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to... Read more

Over the Edge - Abridged

By: Greg Child

Narrated by: Aramand Schultz

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more

Revenge - Abridged

By: Laura Blumenfeld

Narrated by: Laura Blumenfeld

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.
Traveling to Israel, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers as she plots to infiltrate... Read more

Lucky Man - Abridged

By: Michael J. Fox

Narrated by: Michael J. Fox

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

"If you were to rush in to this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal-with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever-in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before, I would, without a... Read more

Master of the Senate

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.

At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more

Napoleon

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bonaparte
 
In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivid look at the life of the strategist,... Read more

Losing my Mind - Abridged

By: Thomas DeBaggio

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was embarking on the golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, and the herb garden he spent decades cultivating.
One winter day, he told his doctor during a routine exam that he had been stumbling into forgetfulness. After it subsequent battery of tests,... Read more

Rites of Passage - Abridged

By: Robert Peterson

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . .

Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols... Read more

The Mountain of the Women - Abridged

By: Liam Clancy

Narrated by: Liam Clancy

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.
Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and ... Read more

Shadow Warriors

By: Tom Clancy & General Carl Stiner

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Teams of dedicated, highly specialized soldiers trained to a higher standard than regular forces; an armamentarium of advanced weapons and tactics; a variety of exotic, critical assignments for the good of the nation; in short, the U.S. Special Forces seem tailor-made for Tom Clancy, progenitor of the techno-thriller. In this factual account... Read more

The Noonday Demon - Abridged

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more

Pope John XXIII

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

No other pope of this century has aroused so much interest and universal affection throughout the world as has Pope John XXIII. Journal of a Soul is an inspiring reading experience that records this pope's thoughts and traces his spiritual development from adolescence to the seminary to a career as a priest, a European papal diplomat, Patriarch... Read more

The Final Days

By: Barbara Olson

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Olson was a trenchant critic of the Clinton White House, which she considered to be the home of two of the slickest kleptocrats ever to disgrace the Oval Office. In THE FINAL DAYS, Olson depicted the excesses and outright crimes she claims took place as the Clintons prepared to leave office. These include the granting of pardons to... Read more