Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Foreskin's Lament

By: Shalom Auslander

Narrated by: Shalom Auslander

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God. Read more

The Difficult Second Book - Abridged

By: Chris Moyles

Narrated by: Chris Moyles

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


Superman was a hero. Clark Kent was a geek.

Spiderman saved lives. Peter Parker sold photographs to his local paper.

Chris Moyles entertains 8 million people each week on BBC Radio 1. Then he goes home and plays Xbox on his sofa, while wearing only his underpants.

Welcome to the real world of Chris Moyles.

The Difficult... Read more

Running the Table

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Butch Engle

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In many sports, the pinnacle is Wheaties-box fame and notoriety. But in the world of pool, notoriety is the last thing a hustler desires. Such is the dilemma that faces Danny Basavich, an affable, generously proportioned Jewish kid from Jersey, who flounders through high school until he discovers the one thing he excels at – the felt – and hits... Read more

The Joke’s Over

By: Ralph Steadman

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In early 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former Hell’s Angel, one Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson wrote later that “The rest of that day blurs into madness. The rest of that night, too. Steadman was lucky to get out of Louisville without serious... Read more

Cochrane

By: David Cordingly

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.



Nicknamed le loup des mers ("the sea wolf") by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time. In this... Read more

Agent Zigzag

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.

In 1941, after... Read more

Running the Table - Abridged

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In many sports, the pinnacle is Wheaties-box fame and notoriety. But in the world of pool, notoriety is the last thing a hustler desires. Such is the dilemma that faces Danny Basavich, an affable, generously proportioned Jewish kid from Jersey, who flounders through high school until he discovers the one thing he excels at – the felt – and hits... Read more

Beyond the White House - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.

This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency,... Read more

Louder Than Words

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

If someone you love is diagnosed with autism, Louder Than Words is the first book you should read.One morning, Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room and found that he was having a seizure. In that moment, Jenny went from being the mother of an average toddler... Read more

A Royal Duty

By: Paul Burrell

Narrated by: Paul Burrell

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In A Royal Duty, Paul Burrell reveals the truth about Princess Diana - and presents a faithful account of her thoughts. He was the favourite footman who formed a unique relationship with the Queen. He was the butler who the Princess of Wales called 'my rock' and 'the only man I can trust'. He was accused of theft, then acquitted following the... Read more

El amante turco

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Las memorias de Esmeralda Santiago, Cuando era puertorriquena, continua con El amante turco. A los 21 anos, Esmeralda se mueve desde Brooklyn para comenzar una vida con Ulvi, una dominante, condescendiente turcos inmigrantes varios anos mayor que ella. Despues de anos de abuso, Esmeralda encuentra la fuerza para obtener un titulo de Harvard y... Read more

Cuando era Puertorriquena

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivian una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De nina, Esmeralda aprendio a apreciar como se come una guayaba, a distinguir la cancion del coqui, a identificar los ingredientes en... Read more

Mi Vida Saxual

By: Paquito D'Rivera

Narrated by: Paquito D'Rivera

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Paquito D'Rivera nacio en La habana el 4 de Junio de 1948, y fue eso que suelen llamar un "nino prodigio," pues empezo su carrera musical a los seis anos, gracias a la intuicion ayuda de un padre musico. Desde entonces, ya en plena madurez artistica, ha sido reconocido y aclamado, actuando en muchos escenarios del mundo, junto a grandes figuras... Read more

Children of Jihad

By: Jared Cohen

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face-to-face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth—and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a... Read more

Look Me in the Eye

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more

Letters from Nuremberg

By: Lary Bloom & Christopher J. Dodd

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during the trials. Through his father, Chris... Read more

The Wolf of Wall Street - Abridged

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Bobby Cannavale

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
 
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife... Read more

Look Me in the Eye - Abridged

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his... Read more

The Pirate Queen

By: Susan Ronald

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy... Read more

Finding Home

By: Jim Daly

Narrated by: Jim Daly

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Since 2005, Daly has been president and CEO of Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian organization founded by child psychologist and Republican activist James Dobson. Daly's childhood family sorely needed focus: the last of five children born to aging alcoholics, young Jimmy experienced his father's abandonment, his stepfather's rages,... Read more

How Starbucks Saved My Life

By: Michael Gates Gill

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and... Read more

A Time to Lead

By: Wesley K. Clark

Narrated by: Wesley K. Clark

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2003, General Wesley Clark ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States. Since then, he has become a major figure on the political scene, commenting on television and keynoting conferences. Focusing on his major life battles—from his difficult youth in Arkansas, through the horror of Vietnam, the post-war... Read more

The Age of Turbulence

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than 18-year tenure... Read more

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

By: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev’s characteristic humour and unique perspective form the heart of this audiobook that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series. Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and... Read more