Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Where Tenderness Lives

By: Heather Plett

Narrated by: Heather Plett

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.

Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. In this illuminating book, acclaimed author Heather Plett... Read more

Psychonauts

By: Mike Jay

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind



Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind... Read more

A Certain Idea of France

By: Julian Jackson

Narrated by: John Banks

Length: 35 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of... Read more

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

By: Pedro Lemebel

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz, Idra Novey & Gwendolyn Harper

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post

A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all... Read more

Bombs Away

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers

A Penguin Classic

On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his... Read more

The Garner Files

By: James Garner & Jon Winokur

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, James Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and settling in Los Angeles to become an actor. Working alongside some of the most renowned celebrities, including... Read more

The Vanishing Velázquez

By: Laura Cumming

Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016

“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.

When John... Read more

The Bigamist

By: Mary Turner Thomson

Narrated by: Mary Turner Thomson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX.From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction.When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating... Read more

The Chief

By: David Nasaw

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 30 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

William Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the Chief, was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and thirteen magazines. He quickly learned how to use... Read more

Touching the Jaguar

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.”
—Deepak Chopra

This all happened while Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer. Then he became an "economic hit man" (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and... Read more

When Character Was King - Abridged

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders.

It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American people's affection but now, as he approaches the end of his... Read more

Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

By: Ellen Vaughn & Joni Eareckson Tada

Narrated by: Connie Shabshab

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal . . . and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her... Read more

The Beatles

By: One World Media

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Beatles fan, and indeed any music lover, should experience this in-depth journey into the legacy of the greatest band of all time. The Beatles didn’t just change music—they shaped a generation, leaving an indelible mark on our lives. This audiobook takes you on a captivating journey from the band’s early days in Liverpool to their global... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

An Unruled Body

By: Ani Gjika

Narrated by: Ani Gjika

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.



Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young... Read more

The Ancient Eight

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning, bestselling author, a year inside Ivy League Football, unveiling the heart and soul of college football’s oldest teams as they compete amidst a rapidly changing collegiate sports world. 

The history of the Ivy League dates back to 1869 when Princeton played the first college football game against Rutgers. The Ancient Eight... Read more

Estamos tarde

By: Jaime Saavedra

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaime Saavedra, exministro de Educación del Perú, nos narra las luchas y desafíos para reformar el sistema educativo en favor los estudiantes. ¿De qué magnitud es el reto de recomponer la Educación en el Perú? ¿Cuán importante es contar con gente comprometida en la función pública? ¿Es posible revertir la situación crítica de los sectores... Read more

Gibby

By: John Gibbons & Greg Oliver

Narrated by: John Gibbons

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Over eleven years and two separate managerial stints with the Toronto Blue Jays, John Gibbons endeared himself to fans with his folksy manner and his frequent battles with umpires: "Here comes Gibby!" Winning helped too. Under Gibbons's management, the Jays made the American League Championship Series in 2015, ending a twenty-two-year playoff... Read more

Our Brave Foremothers

By: Rozella Kennedy

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women—both famous and little-known—who changed the course of US history.
 
In the beautiful pages of Our Brave Foremothers, discover an intergenerational,... Read more

Operation Greylord

By: Terrence Hake & Wayne Klatt

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments.



And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant... Read more

Happily Ever Esther

By: Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter & Caprice Crane

Narrated by: Steve Jenkins

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling authors and loving owners of Esther the Wonder Pig, comes a memoir about their new life on the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, which is anything but boring.

Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, had their lives turned upside down when they adopted their pig-daughter Esther--the so-called micro pig who turned out... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

A Carnival of Snackery

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris & Tracey Ullman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it.
 
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight... Read more

We Were Dreamers

By: Simu Liu

Narrated by: Simu Liu

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu... Read more