Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Girls of Tender Age - Abridged

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that of Angela's Ashes with the tale of a... Read more

Two Lives - Abridged

By: Vikram Seth

Narrated by: Vikram Seth

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

""The heartrending story of a two people, a marriage, and a century from the author of A Suitable Boy. . . . “[A] thoughtful, evocative, moving book.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldTwo Lives is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar... Read more

Memoirs of a Third World Millennial - Abridged

By: Chijioke Osuji

Narrated by: Chijioke Osuji

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This book is a coming of age story, an immersive exploration of a young writer's journey to find his voice in the Third World, while navigating the unending swarms of distraction, hormones and angst that the 21st century throws at him. The personal stories in this debut memoir present Osuji as a voice unafraid to be vulnerable and... Read more

Under the Tuscan Sun - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword
 
“This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the... Read more

Reason for Hope - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall & Phillip Berman

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope.

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.... Read more

A Journey - Abridged

By: Tony Blair

Narrated by: Tony Blair

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour’s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years... Read more

Five Years to Freedom - Abridged

By: James N. Rowe

Narrated by: Reathel Bean

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.

In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die.... Read more

Cartas para Dionne Warwick e Roger Daltrey e will.i.am mais jovens - Abridged

By: Dionne Warwick, Roger Daltrey & will.i.am

Narrated by: Ana Maria Moraes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA DIONNE WARWICK E ROGER DALTREY E WILL.I.AM MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu,... Read more

Blood on the Risers - Abridged

By: John Leppelman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. 

As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... 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

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

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

An Unfinished Life - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more

Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: Danny Glover

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.


Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more

Naked - Abridged

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does... Read more

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour - Abridged

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand... Read more

Fixing the Fates - Abridged

By: Diane Dewey

Narrated by: Rachel Pater

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when... Read more

Ask Not - Abridged

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those... Read more

A Life That Matters - Abridged

By: Terri's Family:, Mary and Robert Schindler, Suz...

Narrated by: Don Leslie & Kate McIntyre

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2004-2005, when the Terri Schiavo case divided the country, one side of the story was buried under the avalanche of politics and power. Now, Terri Schiavo's parents, brother, and sister speak out, for Terri and themselves. A Life That Matters may well change every assumption you have about Terri's too-brief life and prolonged, agonizing... Read more

Cartas para Sir Ranulph Fiennes e Sir Salman Rushdie mais jovens - Abridged

By: Sir Ranulph Fiennes & Sir Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Ana Maria Moraes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA SIR RANULPH FIENNES E SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu,... Read more

My Kind of Place - Abridged

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the... Read more

Bella Tuscany - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more

Hidden Power - Abridged

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary work of history and original reporting that reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush.

Each of the marriages that Kati Marton examines in this hugely appealing book offers up its own... Read more

John Lennon: The Life - Abridged

By: Philip Norman

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the... Read more