Music audiobooks

Mister Max: The Book of Secrets

By: Cynthia Voigt

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt, Book II in the exciting adventures of Mister Max—12-year-old detective in disguise.
 
In Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things, Max Starling proved that he is more than a detective, he’s a Solutioneer. His reputation for problem-solving has been spreading—and now even the mayor wants his help.
 
Someone is... Read more

Tune In

By: Mark Lewisohn

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 43 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.... Read more

Please Be With Me

By: Galadrielle Allman

Narrated by: Galadrielle Allman

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal, revealing, and lyrical portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter
 
Galadrielle Allman went to her first concert as an infant in diapers, held in her teenage mother’s arms. Playing was her father—Duane Allman, who would become one of the most influential and sought-after... Read more

Testimony

By: Robbie Robertson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.

Robbie Robertson's... Read more

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

By: Dana Alison Levy

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

”Fans of Beverly Cleary’s Quimbys, Judy Blume’s Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come.” —School Library Journal, Starred

The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in... Read more

Billy Joel

By: Fred Schruers

Narrated by: Kirk Thornton

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The all-access biography and unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of a pint-sized kid from Long Island who became a music legend.

“A funny, revealing, and poignant look at [Billy] Joel’s long career.”—Boston Globe

Exhibiting unparalleled intimate knowledge, Fred Schruers chronicles Joel’s rise to the top of the charts, from his... Read more

Marc Brown's Arthur: Books 3 and 4

By: Marc Brown

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

#3 - Arthur Makes the Team – It feels as if it'll be a long season for Arthur as he struggles to sharpen his baseball skills and ends up learning an important lesson about teamwork.

#4 - Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest – There's a year's worth of Crunch Cereal on the line...and it'll be awarded to the composer of the best jingle. Arthur is... Read more

Pieces of Why

By: K. L. Going

Narrated by: Azure Parsons

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award winning author of Fat Kid Rules the World and The Liberation of Gabriel King comes a lyrical, middle grade gem that asks all the hard questions and hits all the right notes--perfect for fans of Cynthia Rylant and Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Tia lives with her mom in a high-risk neighborhood in New Orleans and loves singing... Read more

The Last Holiday Concert

By: Andrew Clements

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

For Hart Evans, being the most popular fifth grader has its advantages: kids look up to him and teachers let him get away with everything. But during one choir practice, Hart zones out too far, accidentally flinging a rubber band at his teacher. Mr. Meinert realizes that if Hart is ever going to discover his musical potential, his punishment... Read more

Mozart

By: Peter Gay

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award–winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer’s unshakable hold on the public’s fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay’s bold new perspective.  

His passionate and... Read more

Marlon Brando

By: Patricia Bosworth

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his development from moody Oklahoma teenager to the method-trained star to the eccentric recluse of his later years, Patricia Bosworth offers a penetrating look at Marlon Brando’s evolving persona: the volcanic Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the sensitive rebel in The Wild Ones, the iconic Don Corleone in The Godfather.... Read more

Elvis Presley

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Bobbie Ann Mason turns her acumen on one of twentieth-century America's most mysterious icons, The King himself. This new biography eschews sensational speculation to paint a thoughtfully researched but wholly felt portrait of the man-child who metamorphosed into a hero, one of the most popular and least supported... Read more

Ricky Martin: Red-Hot and on the Rise!

By: Kathleen Tracy

Narrated by: Christian Noble & K. McElheny

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh from his Grammy win for best Latin pop album, this sizzling Latin heartthrob is on the verge crossing over into mainstream music superstardom. This timely profile of Martin's life starts with his childhood in Puerto Rico and chronicles his rise to a popular Latin singer, his stint on "General Hospital, " and his Broadway debut in "Les... Read more

Sinatra

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

Space Between the Stars

By: Deborah Santana

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.

In this... Read more

John

By: Cynthia Lennon

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Julian Lennon & Cynthia Lennon

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Extraordinary Story of a Man, a Legend and a Marriage

When she was eighteen years old, a girl named Cynthia Powell met a boy named John Lennon and they fell in love. Their ten-year relationship coincided with the start of the Beatles phenomenon—from Liverpool’s dockside clubs to the dizzying worldwide fame that followed. And Cynthia Lennon,... Read more

On Michael Jackson

By: Margo Jefferson

Narrated by: Andrea Johnson

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How... Read more

Musicophilia

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more

Clapton

By: Eric Clapton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable... Read more

Journey of a Thousand Miles

By: Lang Lang & David Ritz

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number... Read more

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives

By: Paul Shaffer & David Ritz

Narrated by: Paul Shaffer

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman?... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Duets

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Great music is a hallmark of A Prairie Home Companion, and some of the best features pairs of guests harmonizing. This new collection brings together 14 of the best vocal and instrumental duets featured on A Prairie Home Companion, performed by a range of artists, including The Everly Brothers, Robin and Linda Williams, Leo Kottke and Iris... Read more

When I Get Home

By: author

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve heard Garrison Keillor and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band perform on the radio. Now you can enjoy their feel-good music on this collection.A Prairie Home Companionlisteners are frequently treated to a song—sometimes to a familiar tune, sometimes to original music—with words by Garrison Keillor.

In them, he sings of home, love,... Read more

A History of Music in Western Civilization

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From anonymous 10th century troubadours to world-renowned 20th century composers, A History of Music of the Western World explores the roots of the most influential music genres of our time. Essential listening for students and lovers of great music, the collection includes stimulating discussions by 15 prominent music authorities, including... Read more