Biography & Memoir audiobooks

How In the Hell Did I Get Here? - 2nd Edition

By: Shannan Mondor

Narrated by: Shannan Mondor

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting and raw story of how one woman overcame alcoholism and mental illness and broke free from the genetic blueprint of addiction and abuse that demonized her family for generations. She sets you in a front-row seat as she shares her life story and experiences, which show the strength, determination and courage of how she no longer wanted... Read more

Presidenta

By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Narrated by: Enrique Cardenas

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

La victoria de una mujer en un país de hombres, Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Por primera vez en 200 años México eligió a una mujer como presidenta. El reconocido periodista y escritor, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, construye la narración más completa y documentada sobre la vida personal y política de Claudia Sheinbaum: el activismo de sus padres... Read more

一别，如果永不相见：张爱玲传

By: 朱丹红

Narrated by: 赵倩

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：张爱玲，似一个华贵迤逦的民国梦境。她有着显赫的家世，在镀金的背景下开始传奇人生。生命辗转，她见识了繁华，也体会了繁华逝去后的颓唐。她是傲然于世的海上花，才华横溢，惊艳文坛，却在遇见爱人时低到了尘埃里，卑微地绽放着幸福之花。百转千回的人生路上，她在世俗中精致地活着、爱着、痛着、执着着、悲伤着……思想与磨难碰撞出花火，所有情绪在笔下生发出闪光的灵魂。她将心绪泼墨于纸上，晕染开来，成了一段段爱恨交织的人生故事。 Read more

辛弃疾传

By: 郭瑞祥

Narrated by: 花爷

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：辛弃疾是中国历史上巅峰词人之一，与苏轼并称“苏辛”。其词传唱千年，民间妇孺能诵，当今中学课本中也是必修教材。然而，填词不是他的志向，他以气节自负，以功业自许，最仰慕的人是谢安、孙权，他毕生的抱负是抗击金军，收复中原。事实上，他也确曾金戈铁马，喋血军营。他成长于金国，却是大宋的封疆大吏；他父亲是虏官，他却要做“西北洗胡沙”的霍去病。“少年横槊，气凭陵，酒圣诗豪余事”，是他理想的生活状态；“了却君王天下事，嬴得生前身后名”是他追求的人生高度。虽然政绩卓然，然而其行事风格却不能见容于君臣同僚。南渡归宋后，竟有一半时间赋闲归耕。 Read more

寻梦大唐

By: 马兆锋

Narrated by: 施班瑜，子毅，水夙

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：汉帝国是中国历史上唯一的一个全部由华夏文明自身孕育出来的稳定的强盛王朝，这个帝国在最深的层面上影响了此后中国两千年的全部历史。汉帝国代表了自春秋战国以来古典时代华夏文明的最高峰，其纯粹而高贵的民族基因、优秀而典雅的文明形态、睿智而进取的国民素养、勇武而坚定的国家精神，无不值得今日的我们去追思。 Read more

烟雨孤鸿，民国才子的情与往事

By: 朱丹红

Narrated by: 李溪萌

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：时有男子，惊艳亮相于民国。他们站在时代交替的门槛上，挥别旧历史，创造新文明。在那个盛产传奇爱情的时光区间里，他们带着独有的风情、风骨与风流，书写了滚滚红尘里的浪漫篇章。 Read more

心若幽兰，品如秀竹：杨绛传

By: 朱致翔

Narrated by: 菲儿

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：希望本书可以还原一个真实的杨绛，不仅还原她的生活、她的爱情、她的工作和她的理想，更要还原他的言行举止背后所蕴含的人生哲学。作者查阅了大量的文献资料，修正了某些现有资料上的纰漏，并在传统的传记创作手法中穿插哲理性的感悟，结合传记和随笔的共性，使内容更加丰富多彩。与现有的杨绛传记相比，本书增加了杨绛先生百岁后的生活内容，是一部关于她的更为完整的传记。 Read more

遗失的神灵

By: 马兆锋

Narrated by: 施班瑜，早安，CC欧尼

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：聆听远古帝国的心跳，揭开难以获知的秘密，解 读湮灭已久的文明。说起人类古代文明，除了我们熟悉的古埃及、古 巴比伦、古希腊等文明外，还有许多可与这些古代文 明相 媲美的其他文明，它们是美洲印第安人的阿兹特克文 明、玛雅文明、印加文明，以及赫梯文明、迦太基文 明、 马其顿文明、古印度文明等。它们如今都湮没在了历 史的尘埃中，它们的秘密，世人无法洞悉。《遗失的神灵——失落的铁血帝国(精)/世界文 明史话》由马兆锋编著，内容以近几年的考古发 现为基础，结合的历史研究，为读者揭开了这些 文明的兴衰史，与读 者一起寻找这些秘密背后的真相。书中还附有百余幅精美的图片，有助于读者具体 、形象地观照这些古文明的原貌。《遗失的神灵—— 失落的铁血帝国(精)/世界文明史话》是了解以上文 明的 读物。 Read more

杨成武故事

By: 董保存

Narrated by: 沈卿之，三关，壹念舞兮，徐百万

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：讲述一代传奇杨成武的故事 Read more

一代名将郑维山

By: 董保存

Narrated by: 楚絮有声，浅白

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：讲述一代名将政委山的故事 Read more

Out of Character

By: Alison Steadman

Narrated by: Alison Steadman

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' Telegraph The first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved... Read more

Never

By: Rick Astley

Narrated by: Rick Astley

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Rick Astley

'I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook . . . But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.'

When 'Never Gonna Give You Up’ propelled Rick... Read more

Sophie From Romania

By: Rory Cellan-Jones

Narrated by: Rory Cellan-Jones

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How do you welcome someone new into your home and heart? A week before Christmas, newly
retired BBC journalist and award-winning Movers and Shakers podcaster Rory Cellan-Jones receives a special delivery that will change the course of his life. This is the story of #SophieFromRomania, told in full for the first time.

In... Read more

Lightning Can Strike Twice

By: Tommy Fury

Narrated by: Tommy Fury

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book professional boxer and social media star, Tommy Fury, reveals what life is like juggling his many identities: boxing champion, TV star, mental health advocate, and father, and navigating the most difficult period of his life in August 2024.

"Since writing this book, some things have changed for me. In the last couple of weeks, I... Read more

This Time Next Year

By: David Jason

Narrated by: David Jason

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Told with characteristic warmth and humour, David Jason reveals the hard-won wisdom of a life doggedly led getting through one day, looking to the next, and always chasing what's new on the horizon.
Throughout his remarkable career, David's north star for navigating life's challenges has been his positive outlook and his... Read more

How to Be a Goth

By: Tish Weinstock

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'A celebration of darkness' Anjelica Huston

'There's a bit of goth in us all' Kate Moss

Amidst the waking nightmares of our present day, the solace of goth looms to soothe our morbid anxieties.

Permeating pop culture at every juncture - fashion, art, music, film, beauty - what was once shrouded in mystery has now slipped into the... Read more

Nature Boy

By: Seán Ronayne

Narrated by: Seán Ronayne

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

'Captivating' Manchán Magan

'Sublime' Eoghan Daltun

Seán Ronayne always knew he was different. Nicknamed 'nature boy' by the other kids, as a child he struggled to fit in and regularly escaped to the woods and coastlines around his home in Cork. The natural world was his
happy place and where he discovered his true passion - identifying and... Read more

Power in Chaos

By: Nick Darland

Narrated by: Phil Gilbert

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“You’ll be dead or in prison by the time you’re eighteen.”
Born into a family of addicts and abusers, Nick Darland knows what it’s like to be stuck inside chaos. Physical and psychological trauma fill his childhood. He self-medicates with alcohol and adrenaline. No one—including him—thinks he will amount to anything.
For years he is homeless,... Read more

The Friedkin Connection

By: William Friedkin

Narrated by: William Friedkin

Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker’s life—the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster.” —VarietyAn acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA. The Friedkin Connection... Read more

To Kneel and Kiss the Earth

By: L.R. Heartsong

Narrated by: River Faire

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly five years, the Soul Artist Journal, a weekly e-column/blog by healer, chef, and author L.R. Heartsong, explored the art of living a meaningfully connected existence, celebrating "a life for the senses." Though the posts were diverse, the underlying theme was always, how do we nourish the soul?
TO KNEEL AND KISS THE EARTH is the first... Read more

Nudges from Grandfather

By: Chris Kavelin

Narrated by: Chris Kavelin

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1938 the German Reich inflicted a wave of violent, all night attacks on several Jewish communities (Kristallnacht). Far away in Australia, William Cooper, a distinguished Elder of the Yorta Yorta Nation, led a little-known march to the German Consulate to deliver his protest regarding the violation of those human rights.How contemporary... Read more

The Order of Things

By: Sarah Gormley

Narrated by: Nancy Benincasa

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes nothing is more unexpected than joy.
What happens when a marketing executive leaves San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their family farm in Ohio? A Hallmark heroine would fall in love with her high school sweetheart during a snowstorm—but this is no Hallmark movie. Sarah Gormley spent most of her life trying to outrun the... Read more

Beethoven

By: Anne-Marie Deraspe

Narrated by: Michel Keable

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Pourquoi te parler de Beethoven, mort il y a plus de 200 ans? Parce que, crois-le ou non, la musique de Beethoven est toujours vivante et pas seulement dans les salles de concert. On retrouve des extraits dans les messages publicitaires, dans les trames sonores de films et même dans l’espace. Par exemple, Heavy Metal a réalisé une adaptation... Read more

El mejor libro del mundo

By: Manuel Vilas

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

TODO EL MUNDO QUIERE VIVIR EN UN LIBRO DE MANUEL VILAS Más de 250.000 lectores. NADIE ANTES QUE MANUEL VILAS HA EXPLORADO LA VULNERABILIDAD DE UN ESCRITOR COMO LO HACE ÉL AQUÍ. Su nueva novela, de clara inspiración autobiográfica, narra la historia vital de un escritor que se levanta todas las mañanas, desayuna y se va a trabajar a su oficina... Read more