Biography & Memoir audiobooks
Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
By: Mark Rozzo
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at... Read more
View audiobookI Am Dynamite!
By: Sue Prideaux
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our... Read more
My Losing Season
By: Pat Conroy
Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military... Read more
Midnight in Moscow
By: John J. Sullivan
Narrated by: John J. Sullivan & Matt Godfrey
Length: 17 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.
For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S.... Read more
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Part One
By: Ulysses S. Grant
Narrated by: Peter Johnson
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Among the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, these memoirs rank with the greatest. Mark Twain hailed them as "the best of any general's since Caesar." Refreshingly candid and honest, Grant's assessment of his humble beginnings, his rise to fame, and his greatest triumphs and failures has become an American classic. Read more
View audiobookAs You Wish
By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden
Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner...
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as... Read more
View audiobookThe Eagle and the Hart
By: Helen Castor
Narrated by: Helen Castor
Length: 20 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England.
Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were ten years... Read more
The Inevitability of Tragedy
By: Barry Gewen
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A new portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: Realism, balance of power, and national interest.
Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to be admired and hated in equal measure. Notoriously, he... Read more
Johnny Cash
By: Robert Hilburn
Narrated by: Charles Pittard
Length: 21 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records... Read more
Always Running
By: Luis J. Rodriguez
Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully... Read more
View audiobookHow to Think Like a Fish
By: Jeremy Wade
Narrated by: Jeremy Wade
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the bestselling River Monsters shares a meditation on fishing--and life.
In his bestselling first book, Jeremy Wade, the star of the hit TV series River Monsters, memorably recounted his adventures on six continents in pursuit of fish of staggering proportions and terrifying... Read more
Eighty Days
By: Matthew Goodman
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 18 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The... Read more
We Share the Same Sky
By: Rachael Cerrotti
Narrated by: Rachael Cerrotti
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn’t a... Read more
View audiobookOnce Upon a Secret
By: Mimi Alford
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a... Read more
View audiobookLydia Maria Child
By: Lydia Moland
Narrated by: Lydia Moland
Length: 17 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the... Read more
View audiobookHardy Women
By: Paula Byrne
Narrated by: Dawn Murphy
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his... Read more
View audiobookMore Than I Imagined
By: John Blake
Narrated by: John Blake
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning journalist tells the “riveting” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together.
“A compelling and courageous journey that bears witness to the realities of systemic racism, the complexity of identity within that... Read more
Belichick
By: Ian O'Connor
Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
Length: 21 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL-the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the... Read more
View audiobookPeggy and Me
By: Miranda Hart
Narrated by: Miranda Hart
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The hilarious and heartwarming account of Miranda and her life changing dog, the inimitable and most lovable Peggy.
Hello dear audiobook browser and welcome to Peggy and Me. The story of my life since getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy.
Some of you may be thinking: ... Read more
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder
By: Alain Silver & James Ursini
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary.
From real crime to serial to novel to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is... Read more
Undisputed
By: Donovan Bailey
Narrated by: Donovan Bailey
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.
From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more
Mad about Shakespeare
By: Jonathan Bate
Narrated by: Jonathan Bate
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,... Read more
View audiobookDrums in the Distance
By: Joe Mulhall
Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globe
Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk, he has investigated hate groups.
He infiltrated a US white supremacist militia, set up a fake Ku Klux Klan branch, has been on countless... Read more
Second Wind
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Nathaniel Philbrick
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two.
“There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling... Read more