Biography & Memoir audiobooks

A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979,... Read more

Heat - Abridged

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more

Dispatches from the Edge

By: Anderson Cooper

Narrated by: Anderson Cooper

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly... Read more

The Pursuit of Happyness - Abridged

By: Chris Gardner

Narrated by: Andre Blake

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his... Read more

Revolutionary Characters

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men great???and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each?Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,... Read more

Madeleine Albright on the Role of Religion in World Politics

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: James Hoge

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world during this vist to New York's 92nd Street Y. Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

Miracle in the Andes

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

A Death in Belmont

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” —New York Times Book ReviewIn the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision of three lives during the infamous Boston Strangler serial murder caseIn the spring of... Read more

The Tao of Willie

By: Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin & Willie Nelson

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice?the gentle but unmistakably honest sound... Read more

We Are Their Heaven

By: Allison DuBois

Narrated by: Allison DuBois

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned medium and bestselling author Allison DuBois, a inspirational, thought-provoking, and comforting book that examines the questions: what happens to our loved ones when they die? Is there a heaven? Is there a true connection and communication between the living and the dead?

Allison DuBois invites us into her world where she delivers... Read more

The Pro

By: Butch Harmon

Narrated by: Joseph Buttler

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Natalie Gulbis, and Davis... Read more

Now It's My Turn - Abridged

By: Mary Cheney

Narrated by: Mary Cheney

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who is Mary Cheney?

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000... Read more

The Pro - Abridged

By: Butch Harmon

Narrated by: David Bishins

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Natalie Gulbis, and Davis... Read more

Miracle in the Andes - Abridged

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Josh Davis

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

The Big Bam

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

Strange Piece of Paradise - Abridged

By: Terri Jentz

Narrated by: Margaret Colin

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever... Read more

The Big Bam - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

And You Know You Should Be Glad - Abridged

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Bob Greene

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A highly personal and moving true story of friendship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School.Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they... Read more

Barbra

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the political dilettante driving to the barricades in her Rolls-Royce, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie... Read more

The Other Woman - Abridged

By: Paula Barbieri

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Paula Barbieri reveals how O. J. Simpson treated women, including his abusive relationship with her. After the murders she turned to religion and became a born-again Christian. Read more

Billy - Abridged

By: Pamela Stephenson

Narrated by: Pamela Stephenson

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best-selling biography of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, written by the woman who knows him best: his wife. Read more

Mark Felt

By: Mark Felt & John O'Connor

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only... Read more

Mama Made the Difference

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that celebrates motherhood-for-mothers and those who love them.

Beloved pastor and bestselling author T. D. Jakes pays tribute to his mother—and mothers everywhere—with powerful, heartwarming stories and lessons from his own experiences as a son and pastor.

Woven into these vignettes are Biblical stories and... Read more