Biography & Memoir audiobooks

A Faith of Many Rooms

By: Debie Thomas

Narrated by: Jeed Saddy

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms, writes Debie Thomas, one of the most auspicious voices in religious writing today. In this work of sprawling spiritual and literary imagination,... Read more

One Way Back

By: Christine Blasey Ford

Narrated by: Christine Blasey Ford

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News.

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the... Read more

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

By: Mark H. McCormack

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This business classic features straight-talking advice you’ll never hear in school.
 
Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell
 
Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer... Read more

Our Man in Panama

By: John Dinges

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post).



Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.



A New... Read more

The Right Kind of White

By: Garrett Bucks

Narrated by: Garrett Bucks

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.

As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.”

The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden; the kind of white person who people of color see as the... Read more

John James Audubon

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 21 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret,... Read more

Life In The Pits

By: Brad Schaeffer

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, Brad Schaeffer was working as an artist when his trader brother invited him to visit the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Schaeffer promptly quit his job and became a clerk in that most iconic arena of raw capitalism. During the next six years, Schaeffer rose from clerk to trader, making markets on Eurodollar options in Chicago... Read more

Notes from the Henhouse

By: Elspeth Barker

Narrated by: Raffaella Barker

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker—acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.

Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national press. Notes from the Henhouse, a... Read more

The Radical in Ambedkar

By: Suraj Yengde & Anand Teltumbde

Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This landmark volume, edited and introduced by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde, establishes B.R. Ambedkar as the most powerful advocate of equality and fraternity in modern India. While the vibrant Dalit movement recognizes Ambedkar as an agent for social change, the intellectual class has celebrated him as the key architect of the Indian... Read more

Glimpses

By: Matt Williams

Narrated by: Matt Williams

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning creator of Roseanne, Home Improvement, and several blockbuster films, comes Glimpses, a collection of stories filled with hope, humanity, and humor and an invitation to see goodness and grace in our everyday moments.Matt Williams never focused on red carpets and glitzy parties during his successful Hollywood... Read more

The Blues Brothers

By: Daniel De Visé

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage. But Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the... Read more

Facing Down the Furies

By: Edith Hall

Narrated by: Edith Hall

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves
In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces,... Read more

The Exvangelicals

By: Sarah McCammon

Narrated by: Sarah McCammon

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... 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

Sing Your Name Out Loud / iCanta tu nombre! (Spanish edition)

By: Jason Derulo

Narrated by: Humberto Montes

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

En su cautivante e inspirador primer libro, el legendario compositor y cantante Jason Derulo comparte sus 15 reglas para alcanzar el éxito en todo y nos invita —en particular a los artistas y creadores— a iniciar el camino hacia la grandeza. En 2009, un chico de 18 años, hijo de inmigrantes haitianos irrumpió en las listas del Billboard con la... Read more

Life

By: Pope Francis

Narrated by: Stephen Colbert & Father John Quigley

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiobook read by Stephen Colbert and Father John QuigleyFor the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the... Read more

Candy Darling

By: Cynthia Carr

Narrated by: Justin Vivian Bond

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond.

A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook

“[A] monumental biography.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker

“A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer... Read more

How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

Narrated by: Cameron Russell

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gripping . . . a call to action—and accountability—for the entire fashion industry.”—Marie Claire

A bold memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to fashion

“By elevating me for something I have no control over, the industry and economy... Read more

My Right Hand to Goodness

By: Lynn Cook Betz

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Most wonder how Dale Varnam stayed alive. Dale wonders why.Back in the eighties, the quaint fishing village of Varnamtown, North Carolina—full of zany Southern characters—got rich, and so did town clown Dale Varnam, who perfected his own brand of crazy. Dale rose to the top of the heap in the drug smuggling biz, helping the town’s livelihood of... Read more

Spirit of the Century

By: The Blind Boys of Alabama

Narrated by: Phil Morris

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in America. Their story intersects with pivotal... Read more

Truckload of Art

By: Brendan Greaves

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Brendan Greaves

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.    “People tell me it’s country music,” Terry Allen has joked, “and I ask,... Read more

God is Good

By: Margaret Liu Collins

Narrated by: Tina Li

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

God is Good is the story of the transformational power of faith in our everyday lives. While the world portrays God as wrathful and scolding, our Heavenly Father is the most loving kind of father. He wants for all of His children to live in safety, joy, health, and prosperity, free of worry, sickness, and sorrow.
Margaret Liu Collins was born... Read more

Ghost Town Living

By: Brent Underwood

Narrated by: Brent Underwood

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams.

“Inspiring and meditative—the story of man vs nature and man vs himself.”—Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times... Read more

The Cello Still Sings

By: Janet Horvath

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of... Read more