Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more

The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

Narrated by: Kate Zambreno

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“  —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 

From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss

In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more

The Rooster House

By: Victoria Belim

Narrated by: Amrita Acharia

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and deeply moving story of family, history, and UkraineIn 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim’s personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown, Kyiv, was gripped by protests and violence. Crimea, where she’d once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was... Read more

Tough Titties

By: Laura Belgray

Narrated by: Laura Belgray

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a brutally honest, hilarious, and relatable account of being a late bloomer on the dating scene, trying to master adulthood, and embracing your inner dork: "a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you" (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast... Read more

Anxiously Ever After

By: Clint Edwards

Narrated by: Clint Edwards

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

How Are You Doing? No, Really . . .



In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness.



From being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, to... Read more

George

By: Frieda Hughes

Narrated by: Frieda Hughes

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Poignant and funny…a passionate book about unconditional love and commitment.” —The Washington Post * “Captivating.” —Associated Press * “Rich with imagery…It’s impossible not to be smitten.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, an intimate, charming, and humorous memoir recounting her experience rescuing and raising... Read more

We're All in This Together . . .

By: Tom Papa

Narrated by: Tom Papa

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"In 37 short essays comedian Tom Papa reminds listeners that life's absurdities are here to stay and that everyone is doing the best they can. His tone and delivery are comforting, heartwarming, even therapeutic."- AudioFile

Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work... Read more

The Forgotten Girls

By: Monica Potts

Narrated by: Monica Potts

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?

“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth... Read more

Bread and Circus

By: Airea D. Matthews

Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub

This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and... Read more

We Are Too Many

By: Hannah Pittard

Narrated by: Hannah Pittard

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

We Are Too Many is an unexpectedly funny, unflinchingly honest, and genre-bending memoir about a marriage-ending affair between award-winning author Hannah Pittard's husband and her captivating best friend.

In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade’s worth of unforgettable conversations,... Read more

Homegrown

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.

Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.

Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people... Read more

Mott Street

By: Ava Chin

Narrated by: Ava Chin

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians... Read more

Once Upon a Tome

By: Oliver Darkshire

Narrated by: Oliver Darkshire

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a... Read more

A Wing and a Prayer

By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.

Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds... Read more

Ordinary Wonder Tales

By: Emily Urquhart

Narrated by: Anne Wessel

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday.“I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with... Read more

Woman, Captain, Rebel

By: Margaret Willson

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.



This is her remarkable story.



Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the... Read more

It. Goes. So. Fast.

By: Mary Louise Kelly

Narrated by: Mary Louise Kelly

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Narration by the Author!

This program is read by the author.

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way.

The time... Read more

Happily

By: Sabrina Orah Mark

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily”

“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.”—Kiese... Read more

Becoming Free Indeed

By: Jinger Vuolo

Narrated by: Jinger Vuolo

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller Read by the author.Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the... Read more

A Guest at the Feast

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!

From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.

“IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS.” So begins... Read more

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly

By: Margareta Magnusson

Narrated by: Natascha McElhone

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.

In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the... Read more

Dickens and Prince

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and... Read more

I'm Wearing Tunics Now

By: Wendi Aarons

Narrated by: Wendi Aarons

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and hilarious memoir about second acts, self-acceptance, and celebrating what happens when a woman gets older, wiser, and a lot more excited by sales at Eileen Fisher.
A late bloomer who came to her career later in life, humorist Wendi Aarons shares the joys, stumbles, and outfit mishaps she’s experienced on her road to no longer giving... Read more

Punk Paradox

By: Greg Graffin

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins & Greg Graffin

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution.  Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums,... Read more