Biography & Memoir audiobooks

What Remains - Abridged

By: Carole Radziwill

Narrated by: Carole Radziwill

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.

What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small... Read more

American Lion - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and... Read more

Clapton - Abridged

By: Eric Clapton

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.... Read more

The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach - Abridged

By: Peter Schickele

Narrated by: Peter Schickele

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach. Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. Read more

My Losing Season - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

My Life - Abridged

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

Space Between the Stars - Abridged

By: Deborah Santana

Narrated by: Deborah Santana

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.

In this... Read more

Stolen Lives - Abridged

By: Malika Oufkir

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

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Chasing the Devil - Abridged

By: Sheriff David Reichert

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.

For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more

Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged

By: Saira Shah

Narrated by: Saira Shah

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more

The Pat Conroy Cookbook - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Pat Conroy

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's favorite storyteller is back—with a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond.

This audiobook is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that... Read more

Exil im Paradies - Abridged

By: Ursel Braun

Narrated by: Britta Berthold, Elisabeth Baulitz, Inka Lioba ...

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sachertorte unter Palmen – ein Stück Heimat und Geborgenheit, das gab's bei Salka Viertel für die deutschen Emigranten und ihre Frauen in Los Angeles. Ihr Salon war einer der wichtigsten Treffpunkte für all diejenigen, die auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten im vermeintlichen Paradies Pacific Palisades gestrandet waren. Klug und... Read more

Kitchen Confidential: Book Summary & Analysis - Abridged

By: Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by: Daniel Brooks

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title. An unfiltered, behind-the-scenes look at the high-energy world of professional kitchens, this book reveals the gritty realities, chaotic intensity, and unexpected camaraderie of restaurant life. With sharp wit and raw honesty, the author takes readers through his personal... Read more

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Abridged

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more

Survival - Abridged

By: Stuart Diver

Narrated by: Roger Cardwell & Chris Pitman

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the night of July 30th 1997 a landslide shattered the tranquility of Thredbo Village, sweeping away two ski lodges and burying 19 people beneath tonnes of concrete and mud. In the days that followed, the world mourned as rescuers dragged body after body from the rubble. But out of tragedy sprang an amazing story of survival. Stuart Diver,... Read more

Heat - Abridged

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more

Saving Graces - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more

El Diario de Ana Frank - Abridged

By: Ana Frank

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de... Read more

Marquês de Olinda e Visconde de Cairu - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Estas biografias do Marquês de Olinda e do Viconde de Cairú têm a peculiaridade de terem sido escritas por um quase contemporâneo deles, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Pedro de Araújo Lima, o Marquês de Olinda, tem destacada sua atuação política – deputado, senador, ministro – nos complexos tempos iniciais do... Read more

Marquês de Paranaguá - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia do Marquês de Paranaguá tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela destaca-se a patriótica trajetória política de Francisco Vilela Barbosa, o Marquês de Paranaguá, sobretudo no conturbado período das regências, que antecederam a subida... Read more

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia de José Bonifácio tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a infância influenciada pela mãe, que cobrava dedicação aos estudos, sua formação acadêmica em Portugal, seu fervor pela causa brasileira – que o levou a... Read more

Aprendiendo a crecer desde la magia interior - Abridged

By: Carmen Roca Nadal

Narrated by: Lucía I. A.

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este libro lo que quiere mostrar es que el ser humano solo está en su esencia cuando es pequeño, de niños somos transparentes, hacemos las cosas porque sí sin pararnos a pensar si lo hacemos bien o no. A medida que vamos creciendo, tanto los padres, profesores y la sociedad en sí misma nos educa, nos pone unas normas y nos dice qué es... Read more

El arte de educar al chimpancé - Abridged

By: Gabriel Ruiz Huerta

Narrated by: Alicia I. A.

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Los adolescentes no son chimpancés, pero su sistema límbico (el chimpancé) responde y madura con una gran potencia,  por eso es la época de la vida con mayor plasticidad cerebral y por tanto la de mayor potencial para prepararse para las grandes hazañas. Este libro es una reflexión conmovedora, dirigido a padres, profesores, tutores y... Read more