Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster - Abridged

By: Alice Cooper, Kenneth Zimmerman & Keith Zimmerman

Narrated by: Alice Cooper

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons–with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has... Read more

At the Center of the Storm

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

At the Center of the Storm - Abridged

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

The Invisible Wall

By: Harry Bernstein

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This enchanting true story, written when the author was ninety-three, is a moving tale of working-class life, social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the first World War.The narrow street on which Harry grew up appeared identical to countless other working-class English neighborhoods—except for the invisible wall that ran down the center... Read more

Walter Isaacson: Einstein

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, rebellious, struggling patent clerk became the father of the Special Theory of Relativity and one of the most world renowned physicists. In this interview, Isaacson discusses why he decided to write about Einstein, the scientist's creativity and... Read more

On Wings of Eagles

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned... Read more

Empire of Blue Water

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Empire of Blue Water - Abridged

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Do You! - Abridged

By: Russell Simmons & Chris Morrow

Narrated by: Black Ice

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since rising out of the New York City streets over 25 years ago, Russell Simmons has helped create such groundbreaking ventures as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam. Russell might have helped introduce hip-hop to the world, but he credits his success to his belief in a strong set of principles—or laws. In 12 straightforward steps,... Read more

Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more

Black Virgin Mountain

By: Larry Heinemann

Narrated by: Larry Heinemann

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Read more

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

By: Lee Iacocca

Narrated by: Lee Iacocca

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The late, legendary auto executive Lee Iacocca has posed a question for every American: Where have all the leaders gone?

The most widely recognized business executive of all time asked the tough questions that America's leaders must address:

• What is each of us giving back to our country?
• Do we truly love democracy?
• Are we too fat and... Read more

Iacocca - Abridged

By: Lee Iacocca & William Novak

Narrated by: Lee Iacocca

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Vintage Iacocca . . . He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero. . . . His career is breathtaking.”—Business Week

He’s an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many... Read more

Somehow Form a Family

By: Tony Earley

Narrated by: Tony Earley

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Somehow Form a Family, Earley writes about finding a place in a world without losing sight of where you came from. Read more

The Next Better Place

By: Michael C. Keith

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Next Better Place explores the thin line between wanderlust and compulsion, between running away and arriving, and leaves us with the understanding that the journey is often more powerful than the destination. Read more

On Whale Island

By: Daniel Hays

Narrated by: Bruce Altman

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As chronicled in the bestselling book My Old Man and the Sea, the thirst for living an unconventional life led Daniel Hays to sail around Cape Horn with his father in a boat they built themselves. Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and... Read more

Amazing Grace

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.



At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British... Read more

Einstein

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

Edith Wharton - Abridged

By: Hermione Lee

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf.
Born in 1862, Edith Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary... Read more

Einstein - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a... Read more

The Mistress's Daughter

By: A.M. Homes

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel The Unfolding

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man... Read more

Paula Deen - Abridged

By: Paula Deen

Narrated by: Paula Deen

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

• Fans love Paula Deen: Paula Deen: It Ain’t About the Cookin’ spent over 3 months on the New York Times bestseller list: there are over 500,000 hardcovers in print..

• A superstar author: Paula Deen is an American icon. She is one of the most popular hosts on the Food Network and with more than 6 million books in print, an expanding restaurant... Read more