Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Make a Home Out of You

By: Ginelle Testa

Narrated by: Ginelle Testa

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her... Read more

The Caregiver's Journey

By: Elizabeth Dell

Narrated by: Frances Gregory

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s nothing easy about caring for elderly parents. It can be beautiful like a rose, yet also relentlessly painful. For twenty years, author Elizabeth Dell served as the caregiver for her very difficult parents: one, her father who was a raging narcissist, and the other, her mother, who was slowly fading away due to Alzheimer’s disease. As an... Read more

Wish I Was Here

By: M. John Harrison

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), GRANTA, AND TLS

One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this “anti-memoir.”

M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative... Read more

La guerra del General Escobar.

By: José Luis Olaizola

Narrated by: Jaime Novales López-Medel

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

El coronel de la Guardia Civil Antonio Escobar, hombre de profundas convicciones religiosas, consiguió con su decidida actuación el 19 de julio de 1936 que no prosperase la sublevación militar en Barcelona. Pese a ser hijo de un héroe de la guerra de Cuba, y tener una hija monja adoratriz, un hijo falangista Palma de Plata y dos hermanos también... Read more

Here Comes The Sun

By: Andy McCarthy

Narrated by: Andy McCarthy

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Comes the Sun is a story of overcoming adversity, finding a purpose and avoiding the potholes that throw you off course.
When Andy McCarthy left school in Year 10 because of relentless bullying, his career prospects weren't great, but he was determined to prove the doubters wrong. At age 19, he connected his first solar panel and suddenly... Read more

Disruption?

By: Sean M. Theriault

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman & Perry Daniels

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when a tradition-bound institution encounters an iconoclastic president intent on changing how the government operates? In Disruption?, Sean M. Theriault has gathered nineteen leading authors from a range of subfields to provide a compelling understanding for if, how, and to what extent Trump disrupted the Senate. As the authors... Read more

The Players’ Coach

By: Tom Moore

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Moore is the greatest NFL assistant coach of all-time, though he humbly cites the talent and hard work of his players as the keys to his success. In The Players' Coach, the oldest active NFL coach chronicles the most exceptional players-first career in the history of professional football, talks football with his elite protégés and his... Read more

History for Kids: The Lives of the Mount Rushmore Presidents

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way.  Every American is taught a pristine narrative of the life and legacy of George Washington and can easily recite the highlights of the “Father of Our Country”. The remarkable... Read more

The Greatest Generals of the Ancient World

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Ross Jenkins

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to... Read more

Going Under

By: Seana Smith

Narrated by: Seana Smith

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. 

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The De Palma Decade

By: Laurent Bouzereau

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s and early 80s with new interviews and fresh takes.
 
Among a crop of fresh filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and... Read more

Life and Death of the American Worker

By: Alice Driver

Narrated by: Lori Felipe-Barkin

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“A startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry’s abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers.” —The New York Times Book Review

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

On... Read more

Life, Camera, Action

By: Mitchell Burns

Narrated by: Mitchell Burns

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he’s making up for lost time.

Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, pursuing his passion for photography just didn't feel like an option. So, he... Read more

No Road Leading Back

By: Chris Heath

Narrated by: Vas Eli

Length: 21 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more... Read more

Hearty

By: andrea bennett

Narrated by: Panta Mosleh

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Thoughtful, wide-ranging essays exploring food as a source of pleasure, practical creativity, and sustenance Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the restaurant industry for a decade, and though they don’t eat much meat and can’t eat gluten, they take as much pleasure in food as Jeffrey... Read more

Parole

By: Rob McKeon

Narrated by: Rob McKeon

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole.

…You don’t know what you don’t know.
How can you predict the future when you don’t know what you don’t know?

Rob McKeon is a member of Britain’s parole board, making tough, life-changing... Read more

The World She Edited

By: Amy Reading

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 20 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women.In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor.... Read more

Dark Tide

By: Megan Atkinson & Edna Cowell Martin

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, Edna Cowell Martin—cousin of Ted Bundy—tells her story of growing up with Ted, living in Seattle during his murderous spree, and learning the horrible truth about the man she thought she knew.Growing up in Seattle in the 1950s and 1960s, Edna believed she had a perfect childhood. She ran barefoot and explored tide pools in... Read more

Becoming Elizabeth Arden

By: Stacy A. Cordery

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty

Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted... Read more

Rise Above

By: Steve Zakuani

Narrated by: Steve Zakuani

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Loss. Defeat. Hardship. Suffering. Pain. They're at the center of the experience of being human. And yet, these experiences can cripple-unless they result in strength. When a sudden accident resulted in multiple fractures to his leg and threatened to take him out of soccer permanently, Steve Zakuani faced his biggest challenge yet. The road to... Read more

Rule Number Two

By: Heidi Squier Kraft

Narrated by: Heidi Squier Kraft

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to... Read more

Being Black in America's Schools

By: Brian Rashad Fuller

Narrated by: Brian Rashad Fuller

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In a polarizing and racially divided America, what do children of color learn about themselves before they even go to school? How do they see themselves and is that image only exacerbated by spending twelve years in a public education system that perpetuates negative stereotypes? Brian Rashad Fuller personally knows that the impact of low... Read more

I Am Maroon

By: Russell Shoatz

Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell & Kanya D'Almeida

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.

Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to... Read more

The Titans of the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Mandelbaum

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao.



The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth... Read more