Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago.... Read more

Alexander Hamilton - Abridged

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently... Read more

Toast

By: Nigel Slater

Narrated by: Nigel Slater

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater

Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda,... Read more

Chronicles - Abridged

By: Bob Dylan

Narrated by: Sean Penn

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”

So writes Bob Dylan in... Read more

The Pontiff in Winter - Abridged

By: John Cornwell

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Over more than a quarter of a century, John Paul II has firmly set his stamp on the billion-member strong Catholic Church for future generations and he has become one of the most influential political figures in the world. His key role in the downfall of communism in Europe, as well as his apologies for the Catholic Church’s treatment of Jews... Read more

Ask Not - Abridged

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those... Read more

Against All Odds - Abridged

By: Chuck Norris & Ken Abraham

Narrated by: Michael Norris

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fans of Chuck Norris may see him as an action hero in the John Wayne mold, but his autobiography presents a different image of the "Walker, Texas Ranger" star. Norris describes himself as a shy youth who finally blossomed while studying martial arts as a soldier in South Korea. His self-deprecating humor shows through anecdotes about karate... Read more

My Kind of Place - Abridged

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book.

In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the... Read more

The Know-It-All

By: A.J. Jacobs

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.



To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A. J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two... Read more

The Family

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 29 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more... Read more

The Wisdom of Forgiveness

By: H. H. Dalai Lama & Victor Chan

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary documentation of the evolving friendship between the Dalai Lama and the man who followed him across Ireland and Eastern Europe, on a pilgrimage to India's holy sites, and through the Dalai Lama's near fatal illness. 

On this remarkable journey Victor Chan was awarded an insight into His Holiness-his life, his fears, his faith,... Read more

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and ... Read more

Best of Bryson City Tales

By: Walt Larimore, MD

Narrated by: Walt Larimore

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"We walked out onto a side porch, with woven-seat rocking chairs strewn across it, to look out at the hills that were literally ablaze with color--reds and yellows were painted across the promontories, with amber and orange hues specked the bluffs. The spectacular view all the way to the peak of the distant Frye Mountain reminded us of why so... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Kitty Kelley

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more... Read more

The Wendy Williams Experience - Abridged

By: Wendy Williams

Narrated by: Wendy Williams

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the dishiest book of the year, the top-rated and controversial radio host delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly on the industry’s biggest stars. But we’ll let her speak for herself:
 
Whitney Houston: “We have watched her go from our princess . . . to what looks like one step above a crackhead.”
 
Lil’ Kim: “[She] started out as a black girl... Read more

Cary Grant: A Biography

By: Marc Eliot

Narrated by: Marc Eliot

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bringing up Baby. The Philadelphia Story. North by Northwest. An Affair to Remember. When Cary Grant passed away at age 82, fans from every generation mourned. Nearly 20 years later his star shines just as brightly from television and revival-house screens; his name remains synonymous with effortless charm. But perhaps the most remarkable fact... Read more

The Pontiff in Winter

By: John Cornwell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Over more than a quarter of a century, John Paul II has firmly set his stamp on the billion-member strong Catholic Church for future generations and he has become one of the most influential political figures in the world. His key role in the downfall of communism in Europe, as well as his apologies for the Catholic Church’s treatment of Jews... Read more

Ulysses S. Grant - Abridged

By: Josiah Bunting, III

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well

As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the man who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But... Read more

My Life (Part A)

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 24 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

My Life (Part B)

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 25 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

American Soldier

By: Tommy R. Franks

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to theAmerican story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan... Read more

American Soldier - Abridged

By: Tommy R. Franks

Narrated by: Tommy R. Franks

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To America, he was a hero.To his troops, he was a soldier.Now hear his story.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism.In this... Read more

The Long Goodbye

By: Patti Davis

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes... Read more

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand... Read more