Biography & Memoir audiobooks

How to Be a Goth

By: Tish Weinstock

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'A celebration of darkness' Anjelica Huston

'There's a bit of goth in us all' Kate Moss

Amidst the waking nightmares of our present day, the solace of goth looms to soothe our morbid anxieties.

Permeating pop culture at every juncture - fashion, art, music, film, beauty - what was once shrouded in mystery has now slipped into the... Read more

Power in Chaos

By: Nick Darland

Narrated by: Phil Gilbert

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“You’ll be dead or in prison by the time you’re eighteen.”
Born into a family of addicts and abusers, Nick Darland knows what it’s like to be stuck inside chaos. Physical and psychological trauma fill his childhood. He self-medicates with alcohol and adrenaline. No one—including him—thinks he will amount to anything.
For years he is homeless,... Read more

To Kneel and Kiss the Earth

By: L.R. Heartsong

Narrated by: River Faire

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly five years, the Soul Artist Journal, a weekly e-column/blog by healer, chef, and author L.R. Heartsong, explored the art of living a meaningfully connected existence, celebrating "a life for the senses." Though the posts were diverse, the underlying theme was always, how do we nourish the soul?
TO KNEEL AND KISS THE EARTH is the first... Read more

The Order of Things

By: Sarah Gormley

Narrated by: Nancy Benincasa

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes nothing is more unexpected than joy.
What happens when a marketing executive leaves San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their family farm in Ohio? A Hallmark heroine would fall in love with her high school sweetheart during a snowstorm—but this is no Hallmark movie. Sarah Gormley spent most of her life trying to outrun the... Read more

The Friedkin Connection

By: William Friedkin

Narrated by: William Friedkin

Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker’s life—the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster.” —VarietyAn acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA. The Friedkin Connection... Read more

Nudges from Grandfather

By: Chris Kavelin

Narrated by: Chris Kavelin

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1938 the German Reich inflicted a wave of violent, all night attacks on several Jewish communities (Kristallnacht). Far away in Australia, William Cooper, a distinguished Elder of the Yorta Yorta Nation, led a little-known march to the German Consulate to deliver his protest regarding the violation of those human rights.How contemporary... Read more

Beethoven

By: Anne-Marie Deraspe

Narrated by: Michel Keable

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Pourquoi te parler de Beethoven, mort il y a plus de 200 ans? Parce que, crois-le ou non, la musique de Beethoven est toujours vivante et pas seulement dans les salles de concert. On retrouve des extraits dans les messages publicitaires, dans les trames sonores de films et même dans l’espace. Par exemple, Heavy Metal a réalisé une adaptation... Read more

Baikonur Man

By: Barry L. Stoddard

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the United States space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the... Read more

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

By: Robert Hunter

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Dennis McNally, Brigid Meier & Joh...

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself—with a Foreword... Read more

Unredacted

By: Christopher Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Steele

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get... Read more

Tales of a Pet Vet

By: Dr. Dawn Filos

Narrated by: Jennifer McCool

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In stories tailor-made for pet lovers, a seasoned veterinarian shares her good, bad, and messy days on the job—and highlights the undeniable magic of the human-animal bond.
Dr. Dawn Filos’s own menagerie of pets, including Willie the woolly monkey, primed her for a. career as a veterinarian. With emotional honesty, Dr. Dawn shares her heartfelt,... Read more

Walking Disaster

By: Deryck Whibley

Narrated by: Deryck Whibley

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This candid memoir of music, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows his rise from a punk kid to an international star.

From his earliest days growing up in Canada, Deryck Whibley was a punk who loved music and couldn’t wait to achieve something bigger and better than the humble path that lay before him. Whibley... Read more

Born with a Tail

By: Doug Brod

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans could welcome a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic would put a target on his shiny, shaven head.

When Anton LaVey burst onto... Read more

A Most Extraordinary Ride

By: Marc Garneau

Narrated by: Marc Garneau

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.

On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one... Read more

Da Baddest

By: Trina

Narrated by: Trina

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon.

Growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida, Katrina “Trina” Taylor spent her childhood feeling relatively sheltered by... Read more

Only in America

By: Richard Bernstein

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a... Read more

Chocolate Covered Money

By: Brad Yater

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the man behind some of the world's biggest chocolate empires.



Chocolate Covered Money is for anyone who eats chocolate, has shopped for chocolate as a gift, or has wondered what really goes on at the chocolate store "in a mall near you." Chocolate is a big business, and makes a lot of money. This book "pulls the curtain back" for a... Read more

Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words

By: Zinga A. Fraser

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

LOOKING BEYOND HER POLITICAL SYMBOLISM TO CELEBRATE NOT ONLY WHO SHIRLEY CHISHOLM WAS BUT WHO SHE IS—A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER WITH MUCH TO TEACH US TODAYIn the midst of her groundbreaking twenty-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, “Everyone—with the exception of the black woman... Read more

How Do You Feel?

By: Jessi Gold

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others—perfect for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and The In-Between.

For Dr. Jessi Gold, everything was absolutely fine—until it suddenly wasn’t. As an... Read more

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

By: Tiffany Yu

Narrated by: Tiffany Yu

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world.

As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury... Read more

The Unexpected Abigail Adams

By: John L. Smith, Jr.

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated," writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters... Read more

MC5

By: Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Jeremy Arthur, Justin Price, Peter...

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting oral biography of the proto-punk Detroit rockers MC5, based on original interviews with the band and key members of their inner circle
 
Few bands have dared to ignite a revolution through their fusion of activism and art like MC5. Managed by the charismatic radical and hippie spokesman, John Sinclair, MC5 wasn’t just a band; they... Read more

There Was Night and There Was Morning

By: Sara Sherbill

Narrated by: Sara Sherbill

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author's father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets.



Sara Sherbill was raised by a father who was both a representative of God and a broken man... Read more

Hotel Lux

By: Maurice J. Casey

Narrated by: Maurice Casey

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters.



Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in... Read more