Biography & Memoir audiobooks

White Lies

By: A. J. Baime

Narrated by: Wayne Carr

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever (Chicago Review of Books).Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of... Read more

D. L. Moody

By: Kevin Belmonte

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A plainspoken follower of Jesus, Dwight L. Moody embodies passionate,unflinching obedience to God. It’s 1860, the eve of America’s Gilded Age. A manin a gray, woolen suit stands in a dilapidated building in Chicago’s “LittleHell,” a slum forgotten by the world. He is surrounded by grimy children,attentive and watchful in this makeshift school... Read more

The Tenth Nerve

By: Dr. Chris Honey

Narrated by: Dr. Chris Honey

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Riveting and dramatic, The Tenth Nerve offers a rare window into the world of a pre-eminent neurosurgeon and the seven exceptional patients that made him a better person.

“The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.”

In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General... Read more

A Map of Longings

By: Manan Kapoor

Narrated by: Paul Hottam

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Shahid is widely regarded as one of the finest poets from the Indian subcontinent, and his works are read across the world, touching millions of lives. A pioneer of ghazal writing in English, he wrote extensively about loss, nostalgia and home. A witness to the conflict that ravaged his homeland Kashmir, a loss he lamented in his collection The... Read more

Under Construction

By: Chrishell Stause

Narrated by: Chrishell Stause

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Open Book and Sell It Like Serhant, a heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the star of Netflix’s hit reality show Selling Sunset.

In this engaging, witty, and inspirational memoir, Chrishell Stause shares her story of living an... Read more

Foreverland

By: Heather Havrilesky

Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom…. Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway.” —Leslie JamisonAn illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather HavrileskyIf falling in love... Read more

Stalin's Library

By: Geoffrey Roberts

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library.

In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious... Read more

God Is a Black Woman

By: Christena Cleveland

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence.For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about... Read more

The Founders' Fortunes

By: Willard Sterne Randall

Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation

In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”... Read more

The Color of Abolition

By: Linda Hirshman

Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming & Rebecca Lee

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement.“Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York TimesIn the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause... Read more

The Secret Life of the Savoy

By: Olivia Williams

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations—and one hundred years—of glamour and high society.For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the... Read more

Sledgehammer

By: David Friedman

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trump administration’s peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it off.Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity. For decades, the U.S. State Department called it... Read more

How to Host a Viking Funeral

By: Kyle Scheele

Narrated by: Kyle Scheele

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship. This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope.Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this... Read more

Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision

By: Nadra Nittle

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from a Black, female perspective and for others who shared her identity. But just as much as she was an African American writer, Toni Morrison was a... Read more

Unstoppable

By: Chiquis Rivera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Latin Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and author of the New York Times bestseller Forgiveness returns with this nationally bestselling memoir that shares the triumphs, hardships, and lessons of life after her mother Jenni Rivera’s death.

Bringing her signature warmth, humor, and positivity to the page, Chiquis Rivera... Read more

The Writer’s Crusade

By: Tom Roston

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then... Read more

The Lonely Hunter

By: Aimée Lutkin

Narrated by: Aimée Lutkin

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When can we say we’ll be single forever—and that’s okay? One woman questions our society’s pathologizing of loneliness in this crackling, incisive blend of memoir and cultural reporting.

“The Lonely Hunter challenged everything I assumed about the nature of loneliness and what it means to lead an authentic life.”—Doree Shafrir, author of Thanks... Read more

The Fifties

By: James R. Gaines

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R.... Read more

Home/Land

By: Rebecca Mead

Narrated by: Rebecca Mead

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror).

When the New Yorker... Read more

Please Miss

By: Grace Lavery

Narrated by: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery & Marc Vietor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a... Read more

The Unspoken

By: Ashley Haseotes

Narrated by: Gabriela Noble

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Yeah, I’ve gone through some rough times in my life, but was it really trauma?”You may have found yourself thinking something along these lines, and you wouldn’t be alone. Trauma comes in many shapes and sizes, and on some level, we have all experienced it. The unfortunate reality is that many of us pass off or downplay situations or... Read more

Cuando el mundo gira enamorado

By: Rafael de los Ríos

Narrated by: Fernando Rodríguez

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Viktor Frankl (Viena, 1905-1997), psiquiatra de fama mundial, creó una psicología abierta a la trascendencia que hoy cuenta con numerosos seguidores en los cinco continentes. Su método de curación, llamado logoterapia, ha dado sentido a muchas vidas, y cada día crece el interés por las aplicaciones prácticas de sus ideas. Su libro más famoso es... Read more

WHAT DOES THE SECOND CYCLE OF THE FEMALE ACTYALLY LOOK LIKE?

By: Parshwika Bhandari

Narrated by: Parshwika Bhandari

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What does the female menstrual cycle look like based on a normal female, I am not a medical expert in this area everything that I am sharing in this book is based on my own experience and knowledge, and also this book is meant for all menstruating females and to actually cherishes her cycle instead of feeling bad about it and also sharing my own... Read more

Nietzsche - Der Kampf mit dem Dämon

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine schillernde biographische Studie über den größten deutschen Philosophen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts von einem der meistgelesen deutschsprachigen Autoren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. In dieser anschaulichen und wortgewandeten Biografie verzichtet Zweig weitgehend auf den traditionellen akademischen Diskurs über das Werk des Philosophen,... Read more