Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Pardon Me: memoir of a reasonable man

By: James Gordon

Narrated by: Matt Haynes

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gordon is a natural born storyteller who happened to live the kind of life that produces endless stories that sound a lot like tall tales. He knows triumph and defeat like the back of his hand, but most importantly, he knows how to press forward. Gordon story is one of perseverance and redemption, spanning seven decades, two states, a... Read more

Born with a Tail

By: Doug Brod

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans could welcome a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic would put a target on his shiny, shaven head.

When Anton LaVey burst onto... Read more

Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie

By: Steve Wasserman

Narrated by: Steve Wasserman

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens.



Born on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social... Read more

Heart on My Sleeve

By: Jeanne Beker

Narrated by: Jeanne Beker

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time.

Jeanne Beker’s name is synonymous with style and grace in fashion. Recognized by many as the beloved host of Fashion Television and The New Music, Jeanne has spent an entire career... Read more

A Most Extraordinary Ride

By: Marc Garneau

Narrated by: Marc Garneau

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.

On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one... Read more

Da Baddest

By: Trina

Narrated by: Trina

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon.

Growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida, Katrina “Trina” Taylor spent her childhood feeling relatively sheltered by... Read more

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

By: Robert Hunter

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Dennis McNally, Brigid Meier & Joh...

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself—with a Foreword... Read more

Kidnapped at Sea

By: Andrew Sillen

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TRUE STORY OF DAVID HENRY WHITE, A FREE BLACK TEENAGE SAILOR ENSLAVED ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR, WHOSE LIFE STORY WAS FALSELY AND INTENTIONALLY APPROPRIATED TO ADVANCE THE LOST CAUSE TROPE OF A CONTENTED SLAVE, HAPPY AND SAFE IN SERVILITY.David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by... Read more

There Was Night and There Was Morning

By: Sara Sherbill

Narrated by: Sara Sherbill

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author's father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets.



Sara Sherbill was raised by a father who was both a representative of God and a broken man... Read more

Walking Disaster

By: Deryck Whibley

Narrated by: Deryck Whibley

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This candid memoir of music, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows his rise from a punk kid to an international star.

From his earliest days growing up in Canada, Deryck Whibley was a punk who loved music and couldn’t wait to achieve something bigger and better than the humble path that lay before him. Whibley... Read more

Hotel Lux

By: Maurice J. Casey

Narrated by: Maurice Casey

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters.



Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in... Read more

A Thousand Threads

By: Neneh Cherry

Narrated by: Neneh Cherry

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

*Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York magazine, The Associated Press, Town and Country, The Guardian, The BBC, and more*

A vibrant memoir from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry who shares an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of love and music.

Born in Sweden in 1964, Neneh Cherry’s... Read more

The Unexpected Abigail Adams

By: John L. Smith, Jr.

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated," writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters... Read more

Baikonur Man

By: Barry L. Stoddard

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the United States space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the... Read more

So viel mehr - Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Max Mutzke & Kira Brückner

Narrated by: Max Mutzke

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

So viel mehr als der ESC: Max Mutzke über Momente, die ihn geprägt haben Aufgewachsen in einem unkonventionellen, künstlerisch geprägten Haushalt, hat Max Mutzke schon früh viel fürs Leben gelernt. Als "Bullerbü-Idyll" beschreibt er seine Kindheit und Jugend im Schwarzwald. Doch Max und seine fünf Geschwister blieben von Schicksalsschlägen nicht... Read more

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

By: Tiffany Yu

Narrated by: Tiffany Yu

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world.

As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury... Read more

How Do You Feel?

By: Jessi Gold

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others—perfect for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and The In-Between.

For Dr. Jessi Gold, everything was absolutely fine—until it suddenly wasn’t. As an... Read more

MC5

By: Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Jeremy Arthur, Justin Price, Peter...

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting oral biography of the proto-punk Detroit rockers MC5, based on original interviews with the band and key members of their inner circle
 
Few bands have dared to ignite a revolution through their fusion of activism and art like MC5. Managed by the charismatic radical and hippie spokesman, John Sinclair, MC5 wasn’t just a band; they... 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

Slaveroad

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: David Sadzin

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history.

John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great... Read more

Chocolate Covered Money

By: Brad Yater

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the man behind some of the world's biggest chocolate empires.



Chocolate Covered Money is for anyone who eats chocolate, has shopped for chocolate as a gift, or has wondered what really goes on at the chocolate store "in a mall near you." Chocolate is a big business, and makes a lot of money. This book "pulls the curtain back" for a... Read more

MACCA

By: Mackenzie Arnold

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Matildas fever swept across the country during the 2023 World Cup campaign, filling stadiums beyond capacity, uniting communities and inspiring the next generation of world-class athletes. In one of the iconic 'where-were-you-when' moments in Australian sports history, the Matildas faced down the French in an epic penalty shootout that would... Read more

Only in America

By: Richard Bernstein

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a... Read more

Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her

By: R. Renee Hess

Narrated by: R. Renee Hess

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays shedding light on the history of Black excellence in hockey, the future of Black joy within the sport, and the ways we can all do better when it comes to recognizing—and upheaving—systemic and institutionalized racism.

Growing up, R. Renee Hess... Read more