Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Brothers Grimm

By: Ann Schmiesing

Narrated by: Eve Matheson

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been... Read more

Gichigami Hearts

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before there was a Duluth, Minnesota, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to the Point of Rocks. Against this backdrop—Misaabekong, the place of the giants—the lives chronicled in Linda... Read more

Deséenme un buen viaje (Spanish Edition)

By: Gina Montaner

Narrated by: Gina Montaner

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Me lo dijo sin preámbulos, pero no me tomó por sorpresa.A principios de 2022, mi padre, Carlos Alberto Montaner, me encomendó la misión más difícil y dolorosa de mi vida: «Te pido que me ayudes a morir». Más de seis años después de ser diagnosticado en Estados Unidos con párkinson sus capacidades físicas habían mermado considerablemente y la... Read more

Surviving Three Shermans

By: Walter Boston Stitt Jr.

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1943, eighteen-year-old Walter Stitt enlisted in the US Army, ready to serve his country. From his time in basic training at Fort Polk in Louisiana, throughout his time as a tank gunner in the 33rd Armored Regiment, to his post-injury service in England, he wrote home to the family he had left at home.



Unbeknown to him, his mother carefully... Read more

Bess of Hardwick

By: Mary S. Lovell

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman." —Sunday Times [London]



From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at... Read more

A Woman Among Wolves

By: Diane K. Boyd

Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for... Read more

Awakening the Spirit of America

By: Paul M. Sparrow

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Roosevelt awoke on September 1, 1939 to the news that Germany invaded Poland, signaling the start of World War II. The president warned for years that Hitler's fascist regime posed an existential threat to democracy, but the American public remained stubbornly isolationist as fascist sympathizing groups, egged on by right wing media... Read more

The Real James Herriot

By: Jim Wight

Narrated by: Liam Price

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father—the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world.



Alf... Read more

Gather Me

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for... Read more

One More Good Flight

By: Ric Gillespie

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out to advocate, excuse, honor, or impugn. They saw the Earhart disappearance as an aviation accident and reasoned the answer to its... Read more

Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Richard Kaczynski

Narrated by: Alan Irving

Length: 30 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
 
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more... Read more

Risks and Returns

By: Wilbur Ross

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Lessons from a Wall Street Legend Turned Secretary of Commerce



Before being named President Trump's Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross had already earned a reputation as the "King of Bankruptcy" over his fifty-five-year career on Wall Street. Often working on high-profile bankruptcies such as Pan Am and Texaco, Ross helped restructure... Read more

Flying for Peanuts

By: Frank Lorenzo

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Lorenzo is the epitome of the American dream. A first-generation American and entrepreneur, Lorenzo started an airline advisory business in his mid-twenties and ultimately rose to control the largest fleet of airplanes in the free world.



Flying for Peanuts explains how the son of Spanish immigrants put himself through Columbia College by... Read more

Winning Through Failure

By: C. Robert Banovac

Narrated by: Michael Banovac

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Winning through Failure, by C. Robert Banovac, readers dive headfirst into the author’s candid and relatable journey, riding the rollercoaster of highs and lows in both life and business. Infused with wit and wisdom, each chapter offers practical insights and hard-earned lessons from the author’s personal experiences, providing readers with... Read more

The Most Interesting Man in the World

By: Vinnie Stigma

Narrated by: Vinnie Stigma & Howie Abrams

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Born Vincent Capuccio on December 3, 1955, Vinnie Stigma—as his countless friends and fans lovingly refer to him—is the founder and guitarist of New York City's legendary hardcore band Agnostic Front. He's also one of the Big Apple's earliest punk rockers, having frequented such eclectic downtown haunts as Max's Kansas City, The Electric Circus,... Read more

Ordinary Angels

By: Sharon Stevens Evans

Narrated by: George W. Sarris & Lisa S. Ware

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE



A true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible.



Sharon Stevens, twice divorced,... Read more

The Price of Power

By: Michael Tackett

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“The year’s most anticipated political book.” —Politico

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.

In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. That’s... Read more

War & Peace & War

By: Andrew North

Narrated by: Andrew North

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it—both good and horrifying—that very few international observers have encountered" —Rory Stewart



In early 2022 ,veteran journalist Andrew North was kidnapped by the Taliban. By the time he found himself imprisoned in a jail cell, he had been reporting from... Read more

The Mourner’s Bestiary

By: Eiren Caffall

Narrated by: Eiren Caffall

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy.A literary memoir on loss,... Read more

St. Monica and the Power of Persistent Prayer

By: Mike Aquilina & Mark W. Sullivan

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of us give up on prayer when we don't get the answer we want WHEN we want it.



For nearly two decades, Saint Monica prayed for her wayward son. Years and years of prayers, seemingly unanswered. Countless tears shed with no relief. Yet she would not give up.



That very act of persistent prayer blessed the entire Church, for we have all... Read more

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black

By: Harry Edward

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The lost memoir of Britain's first Black Olympic medal winner—and the America he discovered



After winning Olympic medals for Britain in 1920, Harry Edward (1898–1973) decided to try his luck in America. The country he found was full of thrilling opportunity and pervasive racism.



Immensely capable and energetic, Harry rubbed shoulders with kings... Read more

Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen (Ungekürzt)

By: Emma Southon

Narrated by: Christiane Nothofer

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Römische Reich endlich aus weiblicher Sicht. Lasst uns das Drehbuch des Römischen Reiches zerreißen: Genug von Brüdermördern, Frauenräubern und Kriegsspektakel! Die Geschichte Roms ist so viel mehr: Mit Emma Southon entdecken wir, wie die Sexarbeiterin Hispala Faecenia eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, wir lernen die klügste Geschäftsfrau von... Read more

The Chairman's Lounge

By: Joe Aston

Narrated by: Joe Aston

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the nation’s favourite brands brought itself to ground.

Before Covid, both Qantas and its CEO Alan Joyce were flying high, the darlings of customers, staff and investors. After Covid hit, only money mattered – in particular, the... Read more

The Everyday Life Of Lincoln

By: Francis Fisher Browne

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Scythe

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne offers an engaging, accessible portrait of Lincoln’s personal and public life. First published in 1886, the book weaves together biographical details, personal anecdotes, and historical events to provide a comprehensive look at Lincoln from his early years to his presidency and tragic... Read more