Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover

By: Leslie Glass & Lindsey Glass

Narrated by: Lindsey Glass

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a... Read more

The Last Mrs. Astor

By: Frances Kiernan

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life." —O, The Oprah Magazine



This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke... Read more

Mothership

By: Greg Wrenn

Narrated by: Greg Wrenn

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, "The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological." What he's never told them is how he's lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother.



Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership is not just a queer coming-of-age... Read more

Reaching for Sunrise: A Widow's Memoir

By: Lokita Carter

Narrated by: Lokita Carter

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the quiet corners of Marin County, California, a serene life is violently upheaved, leading one woman's battle against cancer to intertwine with a shocking crime that will test her spirit and redefine her path.Lokita's life takes a devastating turn when her husband, renowned Tantra instructor Steve Carter, is brutally murdered by three... Read more

The Last Supper Club

By: Matthew Batt

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries in the Midwest was launching a restaurant and looking to hire. So it was that the forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a... Read more

Mean Boys

By: Geoffrey Mak

Narrated by: Geoffrey Mak

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Mean Boys written and read by Geoffrey Mak.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY DEBUTIFUL, LIT HUB, PASTE MAGAZINE, BOOK RIOT, INSIDE HOOK, AND NYLON

"This book is a rare comfort, a companion . . . Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”—Torrey Peters

A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and... Read more

Kingfish

By: Richard D. White, Jr.

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his ... Read more

The Penguin Book of Pirates

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Jerome Ha...

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

A Penguin Classic

Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a... Read more

A Life Impossible

By: Steve Gleason & Jeff Duncan

Narrated by: Daniel Cummings

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS

"Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism.” —The New York Times • "Steve Gleason has changed the world." –Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner • "An extraordinary book...A Life Impossible will... Read more

Excitable Boy

By: Dominic Gordon

Narrated by: Dominic Gordon & Kyle Walmsley

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour.

What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of... Read more

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España

By: Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 27 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

La conquista de México desde la perspectiva de quien vivió y luchó en las filas de Hernán Cortés.Narración completa en español de esta obra única y esencial de la literatura universal e histórica.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, un soldado y cronista español que participó en las campañas de conquista lideradas por Hernán Cortés relata la conquista de... Read more

Learning to Think

By: Tracy King

Narrated by: Tracy King

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just... Read more

Life \ Vida (Spanish edition)

By: Pope Francis

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy & Luis Trumper

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Por primera vez, el papa Francisco cuenta la historia de su vida, revisitada a través de los acontecimientos que han marcado a la humanidad en los últimos ochenta años, desde el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en 1939, cuando el futuro era un niño, hasta nuestros días. Vida es un viaje extraordinario por la historia del mundo a través de... Read more

Chester Alan Arthur

By: Zachary Karabell

Narrated by: Zachary Karabell

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had been forced out as the head of the Custom House of the Port of New York in 1877 in a power struggle between the two wings of the Republican Party. He became such a celebrity that he was nominated for vice president in... Read more

FDR's Mentors

By: Michael J. Gerhardt

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique and illuminating exploration of the key relationships that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt into one of America's most definitive leaders and impacted his influence on the world stage, from the acclaimed author of Lincoln's Mentors



Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't a born leader. He became one. As a boy he was in poor health, was... Read more

Titan - (D)ein Weg ins Cockpit (Ungekürzt)

By: Gerald Groß

Narrated by: Gerald Groß

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Viele Wege können in das Cockpit eines Eurofighters führen, doch für die meisten Menschen bleiben diese auf ewig verborgen. Kampfpilot Gerald "TITAN" Groß nimmt den Leser mit auf seinem persönlichen Weg zum Traumberuf. Eine kompakte Autobiographie beleuchtet den Menschen im Cockpit. Mit zahlreichen Geschichten aus der Fliegerei bei der Luftwaffe... Read more

Plans For Your Good

By: Scott Morrison

Narrated by: Scott Morrison & Mike Pence

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and... Read more

After the Flames

By: Jonathan R. Rose

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines." —KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire Murders



For Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning.



On the morning of March 10th, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year-old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third degree burns on... Read more

Tap Dancing on Everest

By: Mimi Zieman, MD

Narrated by: Mimi Zieman

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as... Read more

The Hidden Package

By: Claire Baum

Narrated by: Claire Baum, Carolyne Van Der Meer & Naomi Azrieli

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her... Read more

American Flygirl

By: Susan Tate Ankeny

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces.... Read more

Heidi Across America

By: Heidi Beierle

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.In the summer of 2010, Heidi Beierle had just finished her first year of graduate studies in community and regional planning and decided to pedal her bicycle solo from her home... Read more

Maria’s Scarf

By: Zoro

Narrated by: Zoro

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and transformative memoir, Maria’s Scarf is the incredible story of a mother’s love, a family’s unbreakable bond, and a starry-eyed boy who never lost sight of his dreams.As the fatherless biracial child of a Mexican immigrant, Danny Donnelly was never expected to amount to much. Before the age of nine, his single mother had moved... Read more

Warren and Bill

By: Anthony McCarten

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, and The Two Popes comes the fascinating account of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s friendship—one of the most impactful relationships in history, and the basis of an upcoming play and film.Few friendships have had such far-reaching implications for the... Read more