Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Shape of My Eyes

By: Dave Gibbons

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A touching, humorous account of the author’s cultural reckoning with his Korean heritage and hidden family secrets.
 
A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to explain the unexpected result.
 
Born to an American soldier and a Korean mother in the wake of the Korean War, Dave has spent his life struggling... Read more

Decade of Disunion

By: Robert W. Merry

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

With “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.

The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which... Read more

Takedown

By: Laila Mickelwait

Narrated by: Laila Mickelwait

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire.

Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested... Read more

Tijger, tijger: Zij was zeven jaar oud. Hij was vijftig. Een memoir.

By: Margaux Fragoso

Narrated by: Hymke de Vries

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Mag ik met je spelen?", vroeg Peter Curran in 1985 aan een meisje. En zo veranderde het leven van de zevenjarige Margaux in een onvoorstelbare nachtmerrie. In 'Tijger, tijger' neemt schrijfster Margaux Fragoso een duik in haar verleden, waar ze jarenlang werd misbruikt door een veel oudere man. Een man die haar waardigheid stal, maar ook de... Read more

My Father's Suitcase

By: Mary Garden

Narrated by: Mary Garden

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling.
A deeply personal and heart-breaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a short illness. Mary unpacks her life of... Read more

Reap the Whirlwind

By: Peter Houlahan

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car.



Penn was an idealist who believed in the power of... Read more

Red Letter Days

By: Matt Pryor

Narrated by: Matt Pryor

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut memoir by Matt Pryor(The Get Up Kids, New Amsterdams, The Terrible Twos)Red Letter Days follows the life of a musician growing up, on the road, and following his dream of being a successful musician. Taken from journal entries from 1990–2000, the book is a collection of short vignettes about Pryor’s experiences crisscrossing the... Read more

Przywódcy, którzy zmienili bieg historii

By: Giancarlo Villa, Giusy Bausilio, Mario Tancredi...

Narrated by: Tomasz Ignaczak

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Czy wybitnym strategiem można się stać, czy trzeba się takim urodzić? Co łączy Japonię z przełomu XIX i XX wieku, Stany Zjednoczone z czasów II wojny światowej i Francję epoki napoleońskiej? To postaci charyzmatycznych przywódców, którzy walcząc w interesie swoich krajów, wpłynęli na losy całego świata. Co ukształtowało tak mocne osobowości? Czy... Read more

Colombian Power

By: Juan Sebastián Cabal & Robert Farah

Narrated by: Jhonn Vesga

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Una espectácular crónica sobre el ascenso a la cima del tenis mundial de la dupla conocida como el Colombian Power El sábado 13 de julio de 2019, Robert Farah y Juan Sebastián Cabal se coronaron campeones de Wimbledon —el torneo más antiguo y prestigioso del tenis profesional—, luego de una batalla de titanes que duró casi cinco horas y que los... Read more

Tilak

By: Vaibhav Purandare

Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was considered to be the biggest threat to the British hegemony.He was prosecuted thrice for sedition.Was termed ‘the father of Indian unrest.’He was convicted for his fiery writings in his nationalist daily Kesari.Tilak, the first definitive biography of the man who raised the slogan that ‘freedom is my birthright and I... Read more

J.K. Rowling: The True Story of the Life of the Great Author and the Birth of Harry Potter

By: Liam Dale

Narrated by: Liam Dale

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother... Read more

Behind Closed Doors

By: Ken Khachigian

Narrated by: Dean Gallagher

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.



"Ken Khachigian has written... Read more

The Twilight of the wild

By: Rusty Johnson

Narrated by: Rusty Johnson & Jim Fower

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Rusty Johnson from Travel Channel's TV series HOTEL AMAZON takes readers on an immersive journey through our planet's endangered places and rapidly disappearing wilds.Rusty, an adventurer, and conservationist, shares his firsthand experiences from various expeditions, highlighting the beauty and fragility of the natural world. The book delves... Read more

ASWB Exam

By: Ryan Horlon

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

⭐⭐ Includes Questions & Answers! ⭐⭐
Are you aiming to advance your career and solidify your understanding by acing the ASWB Exam 2024-2025?
Searching for a comprehensive guide that equips you with all the essentials to pass the ASWB Exam 2024-2025?
Your search ends here!
This guide is your ultimate companion for deepening your knowledge, honing... Read more

The Compton Shuffle

By: Edward Gilliam

Narrated by: Dalan Decker

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"I served as the principal at the toughest inner-city public school in Compton, California. A school where the Crips and the Bloods fought over turf, and which had suffered a devastating mass shooting with over a dozen injured and killed. Under my watch, we ended gang violence and prevented more mass shootings in school. Here's my recipe to end... Read more

Taylor Made

By: Dr. Will Harris

Narrated by: Dr. Will Harris

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Harris is a renowned singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. A native of Oxford, Mississippi, Harris began playing piano and singing in church at an early age and assumed his first Minister of Music role at the age of fourteen. In high school, Harris directed the school's very first ROTC Choir and several community choirs in... Read more

The Yeager Tapes

By: Chuck Yeager

Narrated by: Chuck Yeager

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Chuck Yeager, American Hero, the Original Right Stuff, tells his own story. Hear Glennis Yeager, Chuck Yeager's first wife tell stories, too. Here it is in General Yeager’s and Glennis Yeager’s own words.If WWII hadn’t come along when it did, Chuck Yeager probably would have been content to stay in the hills of West Virginia.But the war in... Read more

Operation Ark

By: Pen Farthing

Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing’s actions were nothing short of heroic. - Ricky Gervais   67 People. 171 Animals. Getting out was only half the battle.   August 2021. The Taliban invaded Kabul.   The British Government was Missing in Action.   The evacuation was disastrous, shambolic and deadly.   Pen Farthing... Read more

The Survivors

By: Steve Braunias

Narrated by: Steve Braunias

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of death and desperation
One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion.Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of... Read more

Struck By Living (2nd Edition)

By: Julie Hersh

Narrated by: Ana K. Hagedorn

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Struck by Living, originally published in 2010, is a story about me, Julie Kosnik Hersh, my experience with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and management of depression. This new version includes a prologue detailing the strange series of events this book spurred, as well as a wellness list in the back.
On the original book tour, I decided it... Read more

Decidí Vivir

By: Julie Hersh

Narrated by: Claudia Campos

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Decidí Vivir es una historia de esperanza. La historia sobre mi experiencia personal con la depresión clínica se lee como una novela vertiginosa, con personajes que encantan y frustran. El contenido es duro, pero he aprendido que mi historia está lejos de ser única. La depresión es una enfermedad muy extendida e insidiosa.

Mi libro se refiere... Read more

(Des)hacer las Américas

By: Belén Montalvo

Narrated by: Belén Montalvo

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro para conocer Estados Unidos de la mano de la autora del pódcast "Aló Miami: desmitificando EE. UU." Belén Montalvo es una madrileña que emigró a Estados Unidos para hacer realidad su sueño de vivir allí. Unos cuantos años más tarde, Belén nos transmite su conocimiento de ese amado y odiado país, reflexiona acerca de sus mitos y sus... Read more

The Rider

By: Tim Krabbé

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Rider by Tim Krabbé, read by Mark Meadows.

At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabbé glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. ‘Non-racers,’ he writes. ‘The emptiness of those lives shocks me.’ Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up... Read more

Bill Edrich

By: Leo McKinstry

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Bill Edrich by Leo McKinstry, read by John Sackville.

CRICKET LEGEND. WARTIME HERO. FOOTBALL STAR. WILD MAN.

'A triumph. Leo McKinstry superbly draws together the many strands of a fascinating but flawed figure' – LAWRENCE BOOTH, WISDEN

'Bill Edrich shines through these pages. A wonderful book that needed to be written' – HENRY... Read more