Biography & Memoir audiobooks

An Onion in My Pocket

By: Deborah Madison

Narrated by: Deborah Madison

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.

Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer... Read more

The Patriots

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to theremarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable... Read more

Group

By: Christie Tate

Narrated by: Christie Tate

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—and finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had... Read more

Is this Anything?

By: Jerry Seinfeld

Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and... Read more

Keep Moving

By: Maggie Smith

Narrated by: Maggie Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
... Read more

Down Along with That Devil's Bones

By: Connor Towne O'Neill

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
 
Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people... Read more

Mill Town

By: Kerri Arsenault

Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more

The Buddhist on Death Row

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.

Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... Read more

The Sirens of Mars

By: Sarah Stewart Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams

WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New... Read more

The Beauty in Breaking

By: Michele Harper

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book

“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo

As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more

An... Read more

Action Park

By: Andy Mulvihill & Jake Rossen

Narrated by: Michael Satow

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington Post

The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son.

Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or... Read more

I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To

By: Loni Love

Narrated by: Loni Love

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.

Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!

Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha, Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's... Read more

The Deviant's War

By: Eric Cervini

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine

A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book

From a young Harvard- and... Read more

The Lincoln Conspiracy

By: Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it...Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and he's on fire in this audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine

The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Vivian Gornick

Narrated by: Vivian Gornick

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate... Read more

Dirt

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

By: Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more

Home Baked

By: Alia Volz

Narrated by: Alia Volz

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans... Read more

These Fevered Days

By: Martha Ackmann

Narrated by: Martha Ackmann

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement,
her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death
certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication,
embraced... Read more

At the Center of All Beauty

By: Fenton Johnson

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.



Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more

Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother

By: Barry Sonnenfeld

Narrated by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television director’s life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable... Read more

Citizen Reporters

By: Stephanie Gorton

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America.The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who... Read more

The Adventurer's Son

By: Roman Dial

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

""A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.""—Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever: These were the haunting last words legendary... Read more

Author in Chief

By: Craig Fehrman

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting—a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.

Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the... Read more