Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Mysterious Montague

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as “the greatest golfer in the world.” Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montague’s past were exposed—leading to a sensational trial that captivated the... Read more

The Prince of Frogtown

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.

He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman... Read more

Muqtada

By: Patrick Cockburn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever else the United States intended when it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it was not to hand the country over to a 32-year-old militant cleric who fought against their presence from the start and whom former Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer III described as a "Bolshevik Islamist." Yet, as the occupation steadily disintegrates, the... Read more

The Downhill Lie

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Carl Hiaasen

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving... Read more

Counselor - Abridged

By: Ted Sorensen

Narrated by: Ted Sorensen

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from... Read more

Always By My Side - Abridged

By: Jim Nantz

Narrated by: Jim Nantz

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours

America’s most visible sports commentator tells the stories of the most dramatic moments in sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him to pursue his broadcasting dream—his beloved father, who has fallen victim to Alzheimer’s disease. Read more

The Mysterious Montague - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as “the greatest golfer in the world.” Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montague’s past were exposed—leading to a sensational trial that captivated the... Read more

Audition - Abridged

By: Barbara Walters

Narrated by: Barbara Walters

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me:
“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”

And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing... Read more

Moyers on Democracy - Abridged

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Moyers on America today:

“Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our souls demanded by this challenge . . . kindred spirits across the nation must confront the most fundamental... Read more

My Grandfather's House

By: Robert Clark

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the Edgar Award-winning mystery, Mr. White's Confession, Robert Clark explores mysteries of a different nature in this powerful history of doubt, faith, and religious belief. Culminating in the author's own conversion to the Catholic Church, this thought-provoking book documents five centuries of his family's spiritual evolution. When... Read more

The 33-Year-Old Rookie

By: Chris Coste

Narrated by: Chris Coste

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven.  But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-leage roster still seemed just out of reach - until that fatefull call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006.  At age thirty-three ("going on eighty"), Coste was finally heading to the big time. ... Read more

Katherine Swynford

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Judith Boyd

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her remarkable new book, Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest and most remarkable love stories of medieval England. It is the extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. But Katherine Swynford was much more than that. She was the... Read more

The Revolution

By: Ron Paul

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.

The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing.
The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America.... Read more

The Turnaround Kid

By: Steve Miller

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steve Miller has a knack for taking over companies just before they are about to smash into a wall," the Wall Street Journal observed. "In fact, it is his specialty." For thirty years—beginning with the legendary Chrysler bailout, which he negotiated as a key member of Lee Iacocca's team, to the revival of the U.S. steel industry—Miller has... Read more

Franklin and Lucy

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Ted Barker

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR’s official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women–particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd–that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with... Read more

I Lost My Love in Baghdad

By: Michael Hastings

Narrated by: Michael Hastings

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter—cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, and translators. In startling detail, he describes... Read more

A Wolf at the Table

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year

"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me.... Read more

A Writer’s People

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." Here, he takes us into his sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his... Read more

Life Beyond Measure - Abridged

By: Sidney Poitier

Narrated by: Sidney Poitier

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sidney Poitier was one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He overcame enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of... Read more

Franklin and Lucy - Abridged

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Just when you thought you knew everything about Franklin D. Roosevelt, think again. Joseph E. Persico [is] one of America’s finest historians. . . . You can’t properly understand FDR the man without reading this landmark study.”—Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University 

“Persico’s exploration of FDR’s emotional life is... Read more

Lucia

By: Andrea di Robilant

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. As the larger events unfolding around Lucia mingle with her most personal... Read more

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

By: Chelsea Handler

Narrated by: Chelsea Handler

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Chelsea Handler's world—a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.

When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend... Read more

Candy Girl

By: Diablo Cody

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper.

At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from... Read more

The Soloist

By: Steve Lopez

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—now a major motion picture from DreamWorks starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he found it impossible to... Read more