Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Cinderella Man - Abridged

By: Jeremy Schaap

Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more

Wilt, 1962 - Abridged

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

Narrated by: Roscoe Orman

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more

Newjack

By: Ted Conover

Narrated by: Ted Conover

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards—both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works... Read more

Cinderella Man

By: Jeremy Schaap

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more

The Story of My Life - Abridged

By: Farah Ahmedi

Narrated by: Masuda Sultan

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Farah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.

Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" (Chicago Tribune) chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more

Searching for the Sound - Abridged

By: Phil Lesh

Narrated by: Phil Lesh

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass and joined him in a new group that blended R & B, country, and rock 'n' roll with an experimental fervor never before heard.
In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the... Read more

One Soldier's Story - Abridged

By: Bob Dole

Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more

Three Nights in August

By: Buzz Bissinger

Narrated by: Jeffrey Nordling

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights follows 2004 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa through a three-game series with the arch-rival Chicago Cubs. Bissinger chronicles the process by which the manager leads his players to victory and distills the essence of the game from locker room and front... Read more

Luckiest Man - Abridged

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... Read more

Wilt, 1962

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more

My Life So Far

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more

My Life So Far - Abridged

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more

Assassination Vacation - Abridged

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires - Abridged

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double... Read more

Alice in Genderland

By: Richard J. Novic M.D.

Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a man at the office or a husband and father at home. But one night a... Read more

Smashed

By: Koren Zailckas

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas... Read more

Splendid Solution

By: Jeffrey Kluger

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.



With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before one... Read more

Nothing's Sacred

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Lewis Black unleashes his trademark subversive wit while recounting his own life story in his New York Times bestselling memoir.

You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy... Read more

Inside the Kingdom

By: Carmen Bin Ladin

Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women.



On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved... Read more

Chasing the Devil - Abridged

By: Sheriff David Reichert

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.

For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more

Naked - Abridged

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does... Read more

Downtown - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Read more

Lass mich die Nacht überleben - Mein Leben als Journalist und Junkie

By: Jörg Böckem

Narrated by: Alexander Scheer

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jörg Böckem ist Journalist, schreibt seit den Neunzigern für die renommiertesten deutschen Zeitungen und Magazine. Und er ist ein Junkie. Schon im Alter von 14 Jahren hat er sich in den Drogenrausch verliebt. In Haschisch, LSD, Kokain - und Heroin. Mit 19 bringt ihn seine Heroinsucht zum ersten Mal ins Gefängnis, mit 33 versucht der Journalist... Read more