Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Dying of Politeness

By: Geena Davis

Narrated by: Geena Davis

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her “journey to badassery”—from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under... Read more

One Hundred Saturdays

By: Michael Frank

Narrated by: Michael Frank

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audible Editor's Selection

One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal

The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose... Read more

This Story Will Change

By: Elizabeth Crane

Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.



One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and... Read more

Split Decision

By: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.

Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall... Read more

All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

Narrated by: Seán Hewitt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist

“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic •... Read more

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis, Walker & Janina Edwards

Length: 22 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize­–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.

For the first time, the... Read more

Aquanaut

By: Rick Stanton

Narrated by: Rick Stanton & Don Gilet

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The enthralling inside story of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand—told by the leader of the daring underwater rescue missionIn July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into the Tham Luang cave in Thailand.Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai Navy SEALs had the skills to bring them to safety. With the... Read more

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

By: Dylan Marron

Narrated by: Dylan Marron

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dylan Marron is the internet’s Love Warrior. His work is fresh, deeply honest, wildly creative, and right on time.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Dylan Marron is like a modern Mister Rogers for the digital age.” —Jason Sudeikis

​​From the host of the award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People... Read more

Every Good Boy Does Fine

By: Jeremy Denk

Narrated by: Jeremy Denk

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music—its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselves—from the MacArthur “Genius” Grant–winning pianist

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially... Read more

Tell Me Everything

By: Erika Krouse

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Highly recommended on audio for listeners seeking true-crime with a focus on structural inequities, survivors, and artfully crafted narratives." -- Booklist

“The best story I’ve read in a long, long time." —Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing

“Krouse’s vivid and original memoir is state of the art. Tell Me Everything is our new... Read more

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

By: Bob Odenkirk

Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick & Leo Benvenuti

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this“essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club)memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

“I’ve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and... Read more

I Came All This Way to Meet You

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction”... Read more

My Body

By: Emily Ratajkowski

Narrated by: Emily Ratajkowski

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Ratajkowski shares thoughts on sexuality, feminism, and power dynamics in a nuanced way that will have listeners looking for more from her." —AudioFile

"The essays are more impactful when you hear Ratajkowski read them, which she does with sincere emotion." —Shondaland

"My Body offers a lucid examination of the... Read more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

By: Ai Weiwei

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more

Burning Boy

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 35 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.

With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who... Read more

Hooked

By: Sutton Foster

Narrated by: Sutton Foster

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too).

Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the... Read more

Black Nerd Problems

By: William Evans & Omar Holmon

Narrated by: William Evans & Omar Holmon

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays—on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation—that “will fill you with joy and give you hope for the future of geek culture” (Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

When... Read more

Into the Forest

By: Rebecca Frankel

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.

"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal

Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a... Read more

Everything I Have Is Yours

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more

Below the Edge of Darkness

By: Edith Widder, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness—and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth in this “thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure” (The New York Times Book Review). 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

By: Rodrigo Garcia

Narrated by: Rodrigo Garcia

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review)“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García... Read more

London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

By: Kate MacDougall

Narrated by: Anna Popplewell

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“ Sparkles with humor, joy and wit. London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency bounds along with the energy of a rambunctious pup and exudes the wisdom of a beloved canine with an old soul (you know the type)."" — BookPageThe irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for London’s busy, well-heeled dog... Read more

Couple Found Slain

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Christina Delaine & Mikita Brottman

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

“Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories... Read more

The Woman They Could Not Silence

By: Kate Moore

Narrated by: Kate Moore

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.1860: As the clash between the states rolls... Read more