Biography & Memoir audiobooks

JFK Jr.

By: RoseMarie Terenzio & Liz McNeil

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell, Kevin R. Free, Lanna Joff...

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait... Read more

Hallucinations

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more

The Spamalot Diaries

By: Eric Idle

Narrated by: Eric Idle & Alan Tudyk

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author

On March 17, 2005, Spamalot debuted on Broadway to rapturous reviews for its... Read more

The Fixed Stars

By: Molly Wizenberg

Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our... Read more

All of This

By: Rebecca Woolf

Narrated by: Rebecca Woolf

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY“Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON“Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative... Read more

You Never Know

By: Tom Selleck & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Tom Selleck

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one... Read more

How Stella Learned to Talk

By: Christina Hunger

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon & Stella the Dog

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words.
When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy,... Read more

Dream

By: Mirin Fader

Narrated by: Gogo Lomo-David & Mirin Fader

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The life and legacy of pioneering international basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, a two‑time NBA champion whose Hall of Fame career forever changed the game, both in the United States and around the globe—from the New York Times bestselling author of Giannis, Mirin Fader.

It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international... Read more

Seduction

By: Karina Longworth

Narrated by: Karina Longworth

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of... Read more

The Pope at War

By: David I. Kertzer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.”—Daniel Silva

“Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vatican’s relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the... Read more

How to Be Old

By: Lyn Slater

Narrated by: Lyn Slater

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.

When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon,... Read more

Hot and Bothered

By: Jancee Dunn

Narrated by: Jancee Dunn

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informative, entertaining and desperately needed book.” —Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass

When Jancee Dunn hit her mid-forties, she was bombarded by seemingly random symptoms: rampant insomnia, spring-loaded nerves, weirdly dry mouth, and Rio... Read more

It's What You Do Next

By: Megan Barry

Narrated by: Megan Barry

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2015, after a historic run-off election, Megan Barry became the first female mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Quickly becoming one of the most popular progressive politicians in the Bible Belt, Barry was a beloved leader with a sky-high approval rating and an unshakable hope for a new, forward-thinking, modern South. For her first few years in... Read more

The PDA Paradox

By: Harry Thompson

Narrated by: Elliot Chapman

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by an adult with PDA, reflecting back on his early childhood through to present day.

Diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs... Read more

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

Narrated by: James Acaster

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.

When James quit all forms of social media in 2019 he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f*cking... Read more

In the Shelter

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From master storyteller and host of On Being's Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama, comes an unforgettable memoir of peace and reconciliation, Celtic spirituality, belonging, and sexual identity.



"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." Drawing on this Irish saying, Ó Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to our journeys of... Read more

The Only Woman in the Room

By: Pnina Lahav

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A feminist biography of the only woman to become Prime Minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full... Read more

Muppets in Moscow

By: Natasha Lance Rogoff

Narrated by: Emily Lahey Shoov

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.In Muppets in Moscow: The... Read more

Building

By: Mark Ellison

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces.

For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen, specializing in rarefied, lavish, and challenging... Read more

Native Country of the Heart

By: Cherrie Moraga

Narrated by: Cherríe Moraga

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherríe Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherríe and her mother, and of their people, are... Read more

Ladies Who Punch

By: Ramin Setoodeh

Narrated by: Ramin Setoodeh

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star... Read more

You Don't Belong Here

By: Elizabeth Becker

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war
 
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared... Read more

Airplane Mode

By: Shahnaz Habib

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence



The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.



The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history... Read more

Young Woman and the Sea

By: Glenn Stout

Narrated by: Gisela Chipe

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a “wave of confidence and emancipation” for women in sports (Parade).By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She’d won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the... Read more