Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Under the Hornbeams

By: Emma Tarlo

Narrated by: Emma Tarlo

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm not homeless: this is my home!' Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain. On one of the lower branches sits a robin, joining our conversation. It seems to be saying: Why should anyone want to leave this place? Nick and Pascal live and sleep... Read more

We Are Free to Change the World

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge

Narrated by: Cosima Shaw

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism

“We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt

The violent unease of today’s world would have been... Read more

The Last Fire Season

By: Manjula Martin

Narrated by: Manjula Martin

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Los... Read more

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

Narrated by: Molly Roden Winter

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother as she explores sex and relationships outside her marriage • "This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat"—The Washington Post

Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart,... Read more

Tripping on Utopia

By: Benjamin Breen

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.

"It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the... Read more

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Stylist Magazine (UK) pick for Best New NonfictionA That Eric Alper pick for My Next ReadsThe Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith’s coming-of-age in ’90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows... Read more

Resilient

By: Brooke Wells

Narrated by: Brooke Wells & Todd Meleney

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational memoir about CrossFit star Brooke Wells' rise to fame and miraculous comeback.

This program is read by the author.

On the last night of the 2021 CrossFit Games, ten thousand fans watched in horror as Brooke Wells’ elbow dislocated under the weight of a 190-pound barbell. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How... Read more

The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories]

By: Adraint Khadafhi Bereal

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping exploration of the joys, hardships, and truths of Black students through intimate, honest dialogues and stunning photography, author of Heavy

“A radical, reverential, and restorative document of community.”—Rebecca Bengal, author of Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

When photographer Adraint Bereal graduated... Read more

Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

By: Jennifer Horne

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and... Read more

Escape from Camp 14

By: Blaine Harden

Narrated by: Blaine Harden

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000... Read more

The Plantagenets

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 21 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones.

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In... Read more

The Apprentice of Buchenwald

By: Oren Schneider

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in 1930s... Read more

Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life

By: Chuck Warner & Dana Abbott

Narrated by: Chuck Warner, Dana Abbott & Eddie Reese

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life weaves Coach Reese’s personal and career development with his methodology in developing swimmers that won 39 Olympic Gold Medals and 15 NCAA Team Titles. The book details training, leadership, and how to teach life lessons to bring the most out of each individual through the process of development in... Read more

The MAGA Diaries

By: Tina Nguyen

Narrated by: Tina Nguyen

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This explosive “must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our democracy” (Brian Stelter, New York Times bestselling author) chronicles the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career—and her education—on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine.

Her very first job was... Read more

Evocación

By: Aleida March

Narrated by: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca & Erne...

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia.

Cuando Aleida March primero conoció al Che Guevara, ella era una combatiente de veinte años del interior de Cuba, él era un ya legendario revolucionario y un exuberante líder. Pero había una faceta más humana del Che a la... Read more

In the Nation's Service

By: Philip Taubman

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of the twentieth century, often against withering resistance. While political, social, and cultural dynamics... Read more

Z podniesioną głową

By: Ryszard Drzazgowski

Narrated by: Tomasz Sobczak

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

…życie zaczyna się od papierosa i kawy oraz mocnej herbaty w palarni. W cenie, i to jakiej, jest papieros, kawa i herbata, rarytasem jest czekolada, cukierek czy ciastko. Kto ma ten towar jest bogaczem, kto nie ma, zrobi wszystko, aby go zdobyć. Tam rządzą takie zasady. To nie opis życia więziennego. Tak swój pobyt w szpitalu psychiatrycznym... Read more

Ougat

By: Shana Fife

Narrated by: Shana Fife

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book.’ – Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline ‘Ougat is masterfully written – raw, unpretentious, unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body, psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency.’ – Frazer Barry, award-winning theatre... Read more

Fighting to Forgive

By: Kathy Cooks

Narrated by: Kathy Cooks

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"You, dear reader, are literally being invited into my soul..."This story is undeniably inspiring and serves as a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. Kathy's determination to rise above the challenges of infidelity, multiple betrayers, obsession, and deceit, is a testament to her resilience and courage. She not only reclaimed... Read more

Glaube, Gaumenfreuden und Musik

By: Sylvia Lenz

Narrated by: Jessica Oldach

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

»Ich bin blind. Na und?« Dies ist das Motto der 47jährigen Sylvia, die sich trotz so mancher Rückschläge und unerwarteter Wendungen in ihrem Leben nicht unterkriegen lässt. In ihrer Autobiographie führt sie den Leser zu den wichtigen Stationen auf ihrem bisherigen Lebensweg, beispielsweise ihr Elternhaus und verschiedene Internatsschulen. Mit... Read more

Manden der sendte Dronningen en bog (uforkortet)

By: Henrik Monggaard Christensen

Narrated by: Henrik Monggaard Christensen

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

'Manden der sendte Dronningen en bog' handler om mennesket Henriks vej til eksistens - med et spændende men også turbulent liv i bagagen. Vi følger Henrik som barn, ung og voksen. Vi følger piratjagt ved Afrikas Horn set fra forsædet af en Lynx helikopter. Nogle voldsomme begivenheder, som de fleste danskere nok har hørt om, og husker fra... Read more

Событие

By: Анни Эрно

Narrated by: Оксана Васякина

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

В 1963 году двадцатитрехлетняя Анни Эрно ­обнаруживает, что беременна. Во Франции того времени аборты были запрещены. «Событие», написанное сорок лет ­спустя, рассказывает о нескольких месяцах, в ­течение ­которых она скрывала беременность от родителей, ­искала ­помощи у знакомых и врачей и тщетно пыталась ­сделать аборт вязальной спицей.... Read more

Carta al Padre

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Franz Kafka escribió "Carta al padre" en 1919. En ella el autor aborda la difícil relación con su padre. La obra se estructura como una larga carta en la que Kafka expresa sus sentimientos y emociones hacia su padre, quien era una figura dominante y autoritaria en su vida. Kafka explora los conflictos emocionales y psicológicos que surgieron a... Read more

The Man from Steamtown

By: James R. Adair

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The throbbing sound of the steam-driven pistons and sight of the flashing drive-rods quickened the boy's pulse. He had heard and seen it all from his bedroom window, but now he had stepped-in person-into the wonderful world of steam. F. Nelson Blount's interest in steam engines began when he was only four. As he grew up, he studied and wrote... Read more