Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Nature Notes for 1906

By: Edith Holden

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.Besides noting the flora and fauna, she included poems and quaint folk sayings, saints' days, mottoes, and... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

The Prince of the City

By: Fred Siegel

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dark days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s mayor.” This first post-9/11 account of his career shows how Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Fred Siegel regards Giuliani as a... Read more

The Hoax

By: Clifford Irving

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Novelist Clifford Irving’s “autobiography” of Howard Hughes was the literary hoax of our time. This no-holds-barred confession by the author was first published in Great Britain in 1977, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch it until now. Why? The answer is implicit in this ultimate caper story of daring,... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more

Here’s the Bright Side

By: Betty Rollin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here’s the Bright Side is a wise, moving, and funny book about what people gain from situations of loss. Using examples from her own life and from other people’s lives, Rollin inspires readers with stories that illustrate the value that can come from the hardest times in our lives and how the worst can lead to the best, resulting in happier,... Read more

Kiss Tomorrow Hello

By: Kim Barnes & Claire Davis

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace... Read more

Timothy Leary

By: Robert Greenfield

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 25 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. In the handsome, charismatic Leary, the youth of the 1960s found someone who promised it all: self-liberation, hedonistic satisfaction, and spiritual fulfillment.While in Mexico in 1960,... Read more

Full Throttle

By: Robert Edelstein

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Motor racing and mayhem, the non-stop pursuit of outrageous dreams, high-speed thrills and a really good time: these are the raw materials of Full Throttle.Curtis Turner was the most dynamic stock-car racer of all time; he wrote the book on living fast and dying young. The first NASCAR celebrity, his life embodied all that made NASCAR a hit... Read more

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

By: Pat F. Garrett

Narrated by: Daniel Luna

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. It was first published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, "the bravest and most feared" gunman of the cattle war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. This book is at once the most... Read more

The Dogs Who Found Me

By: Ken Foster

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster never intended to adopt an abandoned dog. But after bringing Brando home, he finds it hard not to notice how many homeless strays there are in the city. Suddenly, he finds them everywhere—from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop—and... Read more

Beyond Band of Brothers

By: Dick Winters

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the “Band of Brothers,” they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire.Dick Winters led them through the Battle of the Bulge, the attack on... Read more

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s Dossier on Hillary Clinton

By: Amanda B. Carpenter

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through her lies about her husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. We are the members of what Hillary Clinton described as a “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy,” and... Read more

After Fidel

By: Brian Latell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compelling, behind-the-scenes account, former top CIA officer and Cuba expert Brian Latell examines the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel’s younger brother, Raul. Exploring the brothers’ remarkable relationship, he reveals how Fidel and Raul have collaborated, divided responsibilities, and... Read more

Sound and Fury

By: Dave Kindred

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2007 Audie Award NomineeOne of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2006Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different—young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his... Read more

Deep Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic... Read more

Robert Kennedy

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Traditionally, Robert F. Kennedy has been viewed as either the “Good Bobby,” who saw wrong and tried to right it, or the “Bad Bobby” of countless conspiracy theories, the ruthless and manipulative bully who plotted with the Mafia to kill Castro and lusted after Marilyn Monroe. Evan Thomas’ achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring... Read more

Ronald Reagan

By: John Patrick Diggins

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized from public interest. But like Lincoln, who was also attacked for decades after his death, Reagan deserves to be regarded as one of our greatest presidents, an exemplar of true conservative values.In this bold and philosophical reevaluation, Diggins reveals that Reagan was a far... Read more

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the... Read more

Dorothy Parker

By: Marion Meade

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy Parker: a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts.In this lively,... Read more

Orthodoxy

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.Published just five years... Read more

Go Long!

By: Jerry Rice

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Football hero Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, the son of a brick mason. He developed his hands by catching the bricks that his brothers threw at him. From these humble beginnings, Rice blazed a path to greatness, becoming the greatest wide receiver in the NFL and winning three super bowl rings for the San Francisco 49ers.In spite of... Read more

Bill Clinton - Abridged

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his... Read more

The Heart of a Soldier

By: Kate Blaise & Dana White

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other.

Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who... Read more