Music bestsellers

The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears
Narrated by: Michelle Williams
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

“At only five hours, this is a great bite-size audiobook if you're afraid you'll get too lost in a long story, or if you have a limited amount of time for your audiobook habit. Michelle Williams is also an amazing narrator and lends a great voice to Britney's story. Read more

The Creative Act

A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin
Narrated by: Rick Rubin
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“The Creative Act by Rick Rubin is a wise and inspiring discussion of what it means to be an artist, a maker. He emphasizes that creativity is a way of being in the world - open, attentive, accepting of awe. And makes the case that each of us has a unique vantage onto the world and that expressing how life looks and feels to us is worth... Read more

Paris

The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton
Narrated by: Paris Hilton
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Paris Hilton: As You’ve Never Heard Her Before
***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, “brand” driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to... Read more

Broken Horses

A Memoir

By: Brandi Carlile
Narrated by: Brandi Carlile
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

“Brandi Carlile is a folk icon and her memoir showcases her talent to spin a story well. She will woo you with her honesty and break your heart before giving you hope again. A perfect memoir for moody days. Read more

A Little Devil in America

Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“Using Black performance as a loose organizing principle, Abdurraqib has written a brilliant, expansive, insightful, and personal book. There is something of Montaigne’s penchant for humility and brilliance in equal measure; of Susan Sontag’s use of cultural criticism to understand history and the self; of Zadie Smith’s verbal wizardry,... Read more

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more

Behind the Seams

My Life in Rhinestones

By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

“An experience you get only if you listen to the book: snippets of songs are interspersed with the interview between Dolly and her niece Rebecca. The clothes are of course fabulous, but even more so, how much Dolly's family was involved in helping her with her career, right down to her niece being the curator of her collection. From one women who... Read more

Echo

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall & David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“The best use of the audio medium bar none! Echo follows the notes of a harmonica through the lives of several people, showing how something even as small as this instrument acts as a catalyst for each of them. The audio is so magical because it plays the music described in the book! Read more

The Storyteller: Expanded

...Because There's More to the Story

By: Dave Grohl
Narrated by: Dave Grohl
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety’s Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible’s Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 * 2 Million Copies Sold WorldwideThe Remastered Edition…Because There’s Always More to the StoryDave Grohl’s The Storyteller created... Read more

Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor
Narrated by: Sinéad O'Connor
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song.
 
Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By... Read more

Our Band Could Be Your Life

Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

By: Michael Azerrad
Narrated by: Phil Elverum, Stephin Merritt, Jon Wurster, Corey Taylor, Merrill Garbus, Michael Azerrad, Colin Meloy, Fred Armisen, Laura Jane Grace, Dave Longstreth, Jeff Tweedy, Jonathan Franzen & Sharon Van Etten
Length: 21 hours 6 minutes

“This is my absolute favorite music book - in-depth looks at indie rock bands all across the country during the late 1970s and 1980s showcasing the diversity of music on the margins throughout that decade. Punk aggression, twee affectations, jangly power pop, and college radio bands are all linked in their rejection of the mainstream (at least... Read more

Music and Mind

Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

By: Renée Fleming
Narrated by: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, Cary Hite, Vikas Adam & Renée Fleming
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes

"This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections.” —Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score

World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renée Fleming... Read more

Holding the Note

Profiles in Popular Music

By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey & David Remnick
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

“More than just a collection of 'profiles' of some of the greatest popular musicians of our time - from Dylan to Pavarotti to Patti Smith - these essays illuminate the inner lives of these artists and the songs that defined an era. Read more

Rebel Girl

My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna
Narrated by: Kathleen Hanna
Length: TBA

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and... Read more

Energy Follows Thought

The Stories Behind My Songs

By: Willie Nelson, David Ritz & Mickey Raphael
Narrated by: Willie Nelson & Ethan Hawke
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs.From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career, from his days of earning $50 each to his biggest hits, from his less... Read more

Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson
Narrated by: Jessica Simpson
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

An Intimate Journey Complete with Original Music all from the Author
The #1 New York Times BestsellerIncludes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.
Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the... Read more

Musicophilia

Tales of Music and the Brain

By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

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

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

A Memoir

By: Sly Stone
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Achievement in Audiobook Production.

"Throughout, narrator Dion Graham sustains an authentic cool. His voice subtly slows down, pauses, and cracks as Stone expounds upon his older years. It’s a kind of music unto itself." —AudioFile

Combining three never-before-heard songs, jingles from when Sly... Read more

Confess

The Autobiography

By: Rob Halford
Narrated by: Rob Halford
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, celebrates five decades of heavy metal in this tell-all memoir.

Most priests hear confessions. This one is making his.

Rob Halford, front man of global iconic metal band Judas Priest, is a true "Metal God." Raised in Britain's hard-working, heavy... Read more

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups

By: Laura Flam & Emily Sieu Liebowitz
Narrated by: Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz, Robin Eller, Janina Edwards, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren, Leon Nixon & LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s    The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the... Read more

This Is Your Brain on Music

The Science of a Human Obsession

By: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of... Read more

But Beautiful

A Book About Jazz

By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming... Read more

The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan
Narrated by: Bob Dylan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard,... Read more

Symphony for a Broken Orchestra

How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music

By: Amy Ignatow
Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Robert Blackson
Length: 8 minutes

The schools of Philadelphia were filling up with broken violins, drums, pianos, and more, making it difficult for students to learn to play. This sparked an idea for a symphony, played entirely with the broken instruments, that would raise funds to repair the instruments themselves. Musicians young and old volunteered, and their captivating... Read more

3 Shades of Blue

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

The national bestseller!

“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of... Read more

Scar Tissue

By: Anthony Kiedis
Narrated by: Rider Strong
Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest... Read more

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

By: Sarah Jensen & Maynard James Keenan
Narrated by: Maynard James Keenan & Devon Sorvari
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

The official authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan, the enigmatic vocalist for the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Co-author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives her unique insight into his history and career trajectory. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest childhood to his... Read more

The Story of the Saxophone

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 minutes

You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how... Read more

What a Fool Believes

A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald & Paul Reiser
Narrated by: Michael McDonald & Paul Reiser
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, written with his friend, Emmy Award–nominated actor, comedian, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser.Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan. Chart topping soloist. Across a half-century of... Read more

Tenement Kid

Rough Trade Book of the Year

By: Bobby Gillespie
Narrated by: Bobby Gillespie
Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't put down' Courtney Love

Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon... Read more

The Musical Human

A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

By: Michael Spitzer
Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

"Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel Levitin

A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species.

165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.
66 million years ago was the first melody.
40 thousand years ago Homo... Read more

Earth to Moon

A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa
Length: TBA

From daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age as part of the MTV generation in the 1980s as the “Valley Girl,” and finding herself after losing her father, then her mother, and the fracturing of her longest relationships. I got my... Read more

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Why Music Matters

By: Tanya Pearson
Narrated by: Corinne Davies
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

First as a doe-eyed ingénue with “As Tears Go By,” then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock ’n’ roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne... Read more

Dolly Parton, Songteller

My Life in Lyrics

By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon.In this exclusive audio performance, the ten-time Grammy Award–winning artist weaves her words with... Read more

Not Starring Zadie Louise

By: Joy McCullough
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Zadie loves Tae Kwon Do, comic books, and outer space. She also loves visiting the community theater that her mom runs, especially the lighting grid over the stage and the stage manager’s booth, which is filled with levers and buttons like a spaceship control panel. So when the family’s finances suffer a blow and Zadie has to give up her usual... Read more

Beastie Boys Book

By: Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz
Narrated by: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz & Various
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself—by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more.
 
The inspiration for the Spike Jonze “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story, coming soon to IMAX... Read more

Me

Elton John Official Autobiography

By: Elton John
Narrated by: Elton John & Taron Egerton
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

“This is highly entertaining, and Taron Egerton's narration is spot on. Libro.fm is the way to go on this one. Read more

Music Is History

By: Questlove & Ben Greenman
Narrated by: Questlove
Length: 11 hours

A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi–Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation... Read more

Born to Run

By: Bruce Springsteen
Narrated by: Bruce Springsteen
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: “Glorious…a philosophically rich ramble through a rock ’n roll life…It’s the lyric he was born to write” (USA TODAY, 4 out of 4 stars).

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is... Read more

Miracle and Wonder

Conversations with Paul Simon

By: Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam & Paul Simon
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music to his childhood in Queens, NY, his frequent collaborators... Read more

More Myself

A Journey

By: Alicia Keys
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, America Ferrera, Bono, Clive Davis, Craig Cook, DJ Walton, Jay-Z, Krucial, Leigh Blake, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Swizz Beats & Terri Augelo
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

**Winner of the 2021 Audie Award for Narration by Author or Authors**
**An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production**

This program is read by Alicia Keys, with special guest appearances by family and friends, including Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, and Michelle Obama.

An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full... Read more

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

By: Chris Payne
Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

“Relive your younger years with this book on emo's heyday. Where Are Your Boys Tonight? is a chaotic ride, told entirely through interviews with the major players of the day with no editorializing. Even a regular reader of early 2000s fansites will find something new here. Read more

Uncommon Measure

A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more

Peter and the Wolf

By: Sergei Prokofiev
Narrated by: Sophia Loren
Length: 24 minutes

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) had a lifelong attraction to children’s stories. By far the best known of all his music inspired by children’s literature is Peter and the Wolf. Prokofiev was asked to write a piece that would introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments. Peter and the Wolf showcases the composer’s... Read more

She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

By: Sarah Smarsh
Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

“This slim cultural study lovingly explores how Dolly Parton’s music has given a voice to generations of working-class women. Parton is one of the few celebrities that has a truly unifying effect, bringing folks together from all walks of life. This book will give you a greater (if that’s even possible) appreciation of Dolly and might even give... Read more

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

A Memoir

By: Carrie Brownstein
Narrated by: Carrie Brownstein
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

“Carrie is a natural-born performer and hearing her read her own book is delightful. The way the narration blends with music as the story progresses is perfect for this format. Read more

Dangerous Rhythms

Jazz and the Underworld

By: T. J. English
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.""[A] brilliant and courageous book."" —Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship... Read more

Girl in a Band

A Memoir

By: Kim Gordon
Narrated by: Kim Gordon
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just... Read more

Hollywood Park

A Memoir

By: Mikel Jollett
Narrated by: Mikel Jollett
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

“Hollywood Park is the kind of memoir that will turn you completely inside out before it lets you go. Within the specificity of his story, Mikel Jollett has somehow managed to make space for all of us — the intricate voice of his child and adolescent selves is one every reader will easily hear in their own head. This book is a brilliant and raw... Read more

Talking to My Angels

By: Melissa Etheridge
Narrated by: Melissa Etheridge
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.The audiobook is an exclusive musical experience, read and... Read more