Biography & Memoir audiobooks

His Eye Is on the Sparrow

By: Ethel Waters & Charles Samuels

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface. Read more

Hysterical

By: Elissa Bassist

Narrated by: Elissa Bassist

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women in this medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry.

Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Bassist had what millions of American women had: pain... Read more

Aura

By: Hillary Leftwich

Narrated by: Hillary Leftwich

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Aura is more than a memoir—it’s a spell book for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both.Hillary Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating... Read more

Whatever It Takes

By: Stephen Stohn

Narrated by: Stephen Stohn & Christopher Ward

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will change the way you think about success. Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the... Read more

All and Nothing

By: Jeff Smoot

Narrated by: Eric Smies

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Once considered a fringe activity, climbing without a rope has entered the mainstream consciousness, largely because of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo featuring professional climber Alex Honnold. Yet climbers have been free soloing all along—motivated by reasons as varied as the climbers themselves.



All and Nothing delves into the... Read more

Blood & Ink

By: Joe Pompeo

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New... Read more

A Man of the World

By: Gilbert M. Grosvenor

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic for six decades is a front-row seat to audacious feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to Jane Goodall's field studies. Offering a rare portrait of one of the world's most iconic media empires, this revealing autobiography makes an impassioned... Read more

A Brown Girl's Epiphany

By: Aurelia Dávila Pratt

Narrated by: Aurelia Dávila Pratt

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You already have all you need to step into the fullness of your power.

Each of us has traumas, triggers, and painful experiences that have shaped our existence in this world. We carry these burdens with us as we navigate the realities of our lives. Learning to embody the truth of imago Dei is our catalyst for healing. We are each made in the... Read more

Giuliani

By: Andrew Kirtzman

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

What happened to Rudy Giuliani?

Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this “masterful and engrossing” (The Guardian) biography that “cuts through the myth and caricature that has too often defined Giuliani” (Los Angeles Times).

Rudy Giuliani was hailed after... Read more

George Michael

By: James Gavin

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the... Read more

Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

By: David Pietrusza

Narrated by: Jack de Golia

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the past narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 reelection landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at... Read more

Up for the Fight

By: Bill C. Potts

Narrated by: Bill C. Potts

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The guide endorsed by MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic, and used by Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation patients.

Imagine a road map for the entire cancer journey, for both patients and their loved ones. That’s what this book is. Think What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but for navigating the... Read more

The Shot

By: Bill Bee & Wills Robinson

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sergeant Bill Bee’s brush with death was broadcast on TV screens and published in newspapers around the world, but behind the cloud of dirt caused by a Taliban sniper bullet is a story of heroism, tragedy, and fighting an invisible war.Sergeant Bill Bee is the Marine in one of the defining images from the War on Terror. He responded to gunfire... Read more

None of This Rocks

By: Joe Trohman

Narrated by: Joe Trohman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy shares personal stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom in this memoir filled with wit and wisdom.  Trohman cofounded Fall Out Boy with Pete Wentz in the early aughts, and he’s been the sticky element of the metaphorical glue-like substance holding the band together... Read more

Part of My World

By: Jodi Benson & Carol Traver

Narrated by: Jodi Benson & Paige O'Hara

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Disney Legend Jodi Benson on a magical journey from a Midwestern town to the bright lights of Broadway and the recording booth where she brought one of the most beloved Disney princesses of all time to life!

A treasure trove of colorful characters and unforgettable anecdotes, Part of My World reads like a real-life fairy tale as a girl with... Read more

Babble On

By: Andrew Brobyn

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A mid-level drug trafficker and self-proclaimed low-life with a big vocabulary comes to terms with his actions and his mental health.



Andrew Brobyn's relationship was in shambles before he took the terrible acid that sent him on an almost decade-long journey seeking redemption. His immediate plans following university were to liquidate his... Read more

My Father and Other Animals

By: Sam Vincent

Narrated by: Chris Miller

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm.Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn’t like that scene in... Read more

Taken

By: Michelle Pearson

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption.As ‘one of those girls’, she was expected to hide her shame with secrecy. No one should ever find out she’d had a child.But she never forgot the son who was taken from her.In the years that followed she struggled with PTSD, traumatic memory loss, agoraphobia and anxiety – impacting every... Read more

Like a Rolling Stone

By: Jann S. Wenner

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Jann S. Wenner

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”

His deeply personal memoir vividly... Read more

El circo de los pueblos

By: José Ignacio Lladós

Narrated by: Juan Balvin

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde la primera mitad del siglo XX el poder busca utilizar el fútbol a su favor: Mussolini, Hitler, la dictadura argentina con el Mundial 78, jeques árabes, Pablo Escobar, la Camorra napolitana, Berlusconi, Macri o George Weah, el primer jugador en convertirse en presidente. Pero también hay víctimas como Maradona, tal vez la persona que... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about BTS

By: Merlin Mill

Narrated by: Lizzie Abbott

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know how much BTS contribute to the South Korean economy each year? What Spotify record does the band hold? What video game has Jin played since he was five years old? And which alternative stage names did Jungkook consider before settling on the one we all know and love?In this fantastic audiobook, Lizzie Abbott talks us through more... Read more

Es ging immer nur um Liebe

By: Musa Okwonga

Narrated by: Benito Bause

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Der britisch-ugandische Autor Musa Okwonga erzählt in seinem autofiktionalen Roman davon, wie es ist, in Berlin anzukommen und sich dort als Person of Colour zurechtzufinden, wie es ist, Freund*innen zu finden, Fußball zu spielen, sich zu verlieben und wieder zu trennen, die Magie des Voodoos zu erfahren, Kuchen zu essen und als Autor zu... Read more

The Voice

By: C. Ruth Taylor

Narrated by: Candace Barnes

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SECRETS OF HER SURVIVALHow would you survive as a single mother, raising nine children?Whether rich or poor, in any era, this is a mammoth task. So, how did Ruth’s grandmother do it in the mid-1950s to the early 80s in rural Jamaica, as a farmer with just a primary school education? What are the secrets of her survival and how did her... Read more

This Girl Did!

By: Alice Kyarimpa

Narrated by: Anabel Moda

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice experienced the harsh realities of life in Uganda. Not only was it hard, but the people around her made it more complicated.She came from a family stricken by poverty and lived in a town where education was reserved, for boys. How would you get out of a situation when you are not allowed the opportunity to an education and a life-changing... Read more