Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Writing My Wrongs

By: Shaka Senghor

Narrated by: Shaka Senghor

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100

Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s... Read more

The White Ship

By: Charles Spencer

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON ’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ PICKED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY MAIL... Read more

Sorry Not Sorry

By: Naya Rivera

Narrated by: Naya Rivera

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over—or plod through—all the crap along the way. After her... Read more

All That Moves Us

By: Jay Wellons

Narrated by: Jay Wellons

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more

Rogues

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue

"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR

“Fast-paced...Keefe is a... Read more

Dead Weight

By: Emmeline Clein

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought

"An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood

“Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange,... Read more

An American Childhood

By: Annie Dillard

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes there is an entire year that sparkles in the memory as a time brimming over with the fullness of life. By the age of 10, Annie's intervals of awakening began to occur more frequently; the hours and minutes of the years that followed were spent reveling in the delights and the anguishes that accompany being fully alive. Read more

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

By: Nina Renata Aron

Narrated by: Nina Renata Aron

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love

“Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles Times

NAMED... Read more

How to Be a Family

By: Dan Kois

Narrated by: Dan Kois

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together.What happens when one frustrated dad turns his kids' lives upside down in search of a new way to be a family?
Dan Kois and his wife always did their... 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

Rebel Girl

By: Kathleen Hanna

Narrated by: Kathleen Hanna

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and... Read more

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

""A masterpiece of women’s wisdom.""—Christiane Northrup, M.D. ""The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story.""—Publishers WeeklyIn celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author’s classic work of... Read more

You Don't Look Your Age...and Other Fairy Tales

By: Sheila Nevins

Narrated by: Lena Dunham, Meryl Streep, Katie Couric, RuPaul...

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant audiobook for any woman who wishes they had someone who would say to them, “This happened to me, learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don’t get smarter as you get older, you get braver.”

This program is read by the author and a full cast: Cynthia Adler, Alan Alda, Bob Balaban, Christine... Read more

Every Living Thing

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.

Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more

American Bulk

By: Emily Mester

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What if we explored our relationship to consumption with the same depth and feeling we use to tell stories of great loves and losses?



Americans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restaurant. In American... Read more

Hexy Bitch

By: Daisy May Cooper

Narrated by: Daisy May Cooper, Paul Cooper & Selin Hizli

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch.

'My life's changed a lot since This Country came out. Among all the amazing times there have been some stranger ones: the time a man climbed the wall into my garden and curled one out on the lawn while staring me dead in the... Read more

Woodrow Wilson

By: Christopher Cox

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.

More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality... Read more

Out of Thin Air

By: Michael Crawley

Narrated by: Raj Ghatak

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley, read by Raj Ghatak.

‘Full of wonderful insights and lessons from a world where the ability to run is viewed as something almost mysterious and magical.’ – Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans

What we can learn from Ethiopian running culture – written by an anthropologist and... Read more

A Visible Man

By: Edward Enninful

Narrated by: Edward Enninful

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers.

When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that.
 
Now,... Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

Every Living Thing

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.

Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more

Goddess of Anarchy

By: Jacqueline Jones

Narrated by: Nylsa Smallwood

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived

Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert... Read more

Me vs. Brain

By: Hayley Morris

Narrated by: Hayley Morris

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her warm and witty debut about living with intrusive thoughts and anxiety, bestselling author Hayley Morris shows—with her signature sparkling humor and unflinching honesty—that being an overthinker is both a blessing and a curse. She confronts the funny (if painful) moments that arise when your brain and body refuse to cooperate and your... Read more

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

By: Helena Kelly

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.

In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena... Read more