Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Friday Afternoon Club

By: Griffin Dunne

Narrated by: Griffin Dunne

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller! 

“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times

“Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post

"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.”  —Los Angeles Times

“What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving... Read more

Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

Narrated by: Chanel Miller

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap).

"I... Read more

Dinners with Ruth

By: Nina Totenberg

Narrated by: Nina Totenberg

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a... Read more

The Best Minds

By: Jonathan Rosen

Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •  Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023

“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times

“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall... Read more

Burn Book

By: Kara Swisher

Narrated by: Kara Swisher

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution... Read more

Dear Girls

By: Ali Wong

Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list
 
“A collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex,... Read more

Just Mercy

By: Bryan Stevenson

Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

By: Sabrina Imbler

Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more

The Crane Wife

By: CJ Hauser

Narrated by: CJ Hauser

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more

Question 7

By: Richard Flanagan

Narrated by: Richard Flanagan

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER • LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS • An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times

"Spectacular. . . A book that will have an... Read more

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley

“Unexpected and spectacular” —Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days

"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more

Surrender

By: Bono

Narrated by: Bono

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR***

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained... Read more

Between Two Kingdoms

By: Suleika Jaouad

Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more

All The Beauty in the World

By: Patrick Bringley

Narrated by: Patrick Bringley

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).

An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staff who spent a decade as a museum guard.

Millions of people... Read more

Knife

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Salman Rushdie

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
 
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the... Read more

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

By: Matthew Perry

Narrated by: Matthew Perry

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more

Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate

Narrated by: Jenny Slate

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).

You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of... Read more

The Book of Hope

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams

Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.

Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

In this urgent... Read more

Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

Narrated by: Patti Smith

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the... Read more

Hidden Valley Road

By: Robert Kolker

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

"Reads like a medical... Read more

War

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.

We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers... Read more

Hillbilly Elegy

By: J. D. Vance

Narrated by: J. D. Vance

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's... Read more

Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

Narrated by: Tina Fey

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she... Read more

Wow, No Thank You.

By: Samantha Irby

Narrated by: Samantha Irby

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.

Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and... Read more