Biography & Memoir audiobooks

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

The Resilience Myth

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology.

We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura... Read more

The Climate Book

By: Greta Thunberg

Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas K...

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more

Tell Me More

By: Kelly Corrigan

Narrated by: Kelly Corrigan

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place

“Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth and courage.”—Glennon Doyle

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

Have I Told You This Already?

By: Lauren Graham

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes an “insightful, honest, funny, and moving collection of captivating stories” (BuzzFeed).

“Graham is fast and furiously funny. . . . Where Graham leads, we will definitely follow.”—E! Online

Lauren Graham... Read more

My Life in France

By: Julia Child

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more

Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

Narrated by: Kim Gordon

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just... Read more

Reagan

By: Max Boot

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 32 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot... Read more

Kissing Girls on Shabbat

By: Sara Glass

Narrated by: Sara Glass

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“A searing testament to the strength in claiming one’s destiny.” —The Washington Post

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman’s desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community.

Growing up in the Hasidic community of... Read more

Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.

For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the... Read more

The Black Utopians

By: Aaron Robertson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by by four-time Audie Award winner, Odyssey Award winner, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award–winning audiobook narrator, Dion Graham.

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024

A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and sought to transform their lives.

How do the disillusioned, the... Read more

Live Wire

By: Kelly Ripa

Narrated by: Kelly Ripa

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host.In Live Wire, her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter and as a mother, she brings a... Read more

My Good Bright Wolf

By: Sarah Moss

Narrated by: Morven Christie

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Morven Christie's limpid, Scottish-inflected voice and gentle, enticing tone combine to lure listeners into Sarah Moss's astonishing seventh novel as effectively as mermaids tempt sailors into the sea" —AudioFile on Summerwater (Earphones Award winner)

A New York magazine Most-Anticipated Book of the Fall

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall,... Read more

Who Could Ever Love You

By: Mary L. Trump, PhD

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump, PhD

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family’s exile.

Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer... Read more

Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

Narrated by: Melissa Febos

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Girlhood written and read by Melissa Febos.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
National Bestseller
Lambda Literary Award Finalist

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy... Read more

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

By: Eric Idle

Narrated by: Eric Idle

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor

We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python--from the Flying Circus to The Meaning of Life. Now, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this... Read more

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

By: Ben Montgomery

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's... Read more

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

By: Maria Ressa

Narrated by: Maria Ressa & Rebecca Mozo

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Sellout

By: Dan Ozzi

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.'"--New York Times Book Review

A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the... Read more

I Hope We Choose Love

By: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith?

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom... Read more

Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition

By: Dave Cullen

Narrated by: Don Leslie & Dave Cullen

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In remembrance of the 25th anniversary, this definitive account of Columbine examines the aftermath and significance of the massacre: "a staggering work of journalism" (Washington Post).

So begins a new preface, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias

By: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson & Susana Ballesteros

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las... Read more