Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Kingmaker

By: Sonia Purnell

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players

When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan... Read more

The Money Trap

By: Alok Sama

Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Raza Jaffrey, best known for his role in Homeland.

A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives.

Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the... Read more

Lucky Loser

By: Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year

“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018... Read more

Remember, You Are a Wiley

By: Maya Wiley

Narrated by: Maya Wiley

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.

Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism, hope, and... Read more

One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman

By: Abi Maxwell

Narrated by: Abi Maxwell

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars

        Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside... Read more

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They... Read more

Time to Thank

By: Steve Guttenberg

Narrated by: Steve Guttenberg

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Since moving to Hollywood at age seventeen, Steve Guttenberg has delighted and moved audiences with his film and television work. But when his father is diagnosed with kidney failure, Steve has to step into a new and wholly unexpected role: caretaker. In Time to Thank, Steve tracks his weekly road trips from Los Angeles to Arizona to care for... Read more

Grizzly Confidential

By: Kevin Grange

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In?Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange—former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton—comes face-to-face with North America’s most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos. His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins; from the Bear Center at Washington State University—where... Read more

The Gangs of Zion

By: Ron Stallworth

Narrated by: Phil Morris

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the ’90s.

Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally lands in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, he’s an... Read more

Locker Room Talk

By: Melissa Ludtke

Narrated by: Melissa Redmond

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal... Read more

Mayor of the Tenderloin

By: Alison Owings

Narrated by: Jeremy Durm

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco

In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming... Read more

Ali

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year | The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle. ""Finally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable... Read more

Jamsetji Tata

By: Harish Bhat & R. Gopalakrishnan

Narrated by: Luke Kenny

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jamsetji Tata pioneered modern Indian industry. He has been a key catalyst in the economic growth and development of the country.From Empress Mills to the Iron and Steel Plant, from the establishment of IISc to the building of the Taj Mahal Hotel, Jamsetji's vision made India stand tall. In this carefully researched account, R. Gopalakrishnan... Read more

An American Story

By: Wilmer Valderrama

Narrated by: Wilmer Valderrama

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Read by the author.A love letter to America from the pen of actor, producer, immigrant, and activist Wilmer Valderrama.In this timely memoir, Valderrama looks back on his journey from a tiny pueblo in Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles—how he discovered his calling as an actor and later as a USO Global Ambassador, found work in Hollywood... Read more

Never Understood

By: William Reid & Jim Reid

Narrated by: William Reid & Jim Reid

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

William and Jim Reid, brothers and founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain—a band that bridged the gap between the punk explosion and the emergence of grunge and Britpop—chronicle the chaos, confusion, and stories behind their music. For five years after they’d swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and... Read more

A Natural History of Empty Lots

By: Christopher Brown

Narrated by: Christopher Brown

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.

A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect. 

During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher... Read more

A Hell of a Storm

By: David S. Brown

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the... Read more

Talkin' Greenwich Village

By: David Browne

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
 
Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area nurtured so many innovative artists and... Read more

飓风行动：围猎

By: 丁一鹤

Narrated by: 讲鬼故事的刚子

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：博社村一没有大型工业园区，二不是港口物流集散地，流动人口为什么会大量聚集在博社村呢？熟悉内情的人都清楚，外来人口蜂拥而至的原因只有一个：博社村是制毒堡垒村，在这里可以安全制毒。博社村里的房屋虽然看起来破败不堪、拥挤散乱，甚至透着一种潮湿阴暗的破败气息，但这样的破房子每个月的租金却动辄数万元。租房的人在里面做什么，大家都心知肚明。在前期调查中，警方将博社村称为制毒堡垒村，原因不外乎三个：1. 博社村有一个核心人物蔡东家，他既是宗族权威，又是基层党组织负责人。他在博社村能够一呼百应，是因为他对内能摆平宗族冲突，对外能摆平社会各方某些人士。2. 博社村有一支闻风而动负责保护村庄的“狼队”，这支由青壮年组成的护村队在队长蔡罗的带领下，装配摩托车、棍棒、砍刀，时刻应对外部威胁。3.... Read more

两汉时期的生存法则

By: 冷成金

Narrated by: 圣杰有声、考拉圆滚滚、马道长、王海蛟、冬青

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：隋唐宋元时期是中国封建历史最特殊的时期之一，其问既有治世繁荣的盛唐，也有朝代更迭频繁的五代十国。此时，谋略成为封建政治的主角，产生了巨大影响。然而，谋略只是一种术，终究还要靠人性操纵。所以，与其说是谋略在影响历史，倒不如说是人性在塑造历史。《三千年来谁著史(隋唐宋元时期的霸权博弈)》中人性与谋略的关系在这一时期被演绎得淋漓尽致，一旦理解人性与谋略的关系，也就能明白历史为何这样发展了。 Read more

解密档案7：权欲劫

By: 丁一鹤

Narrated by: 讲鬼故事的刚子

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：山西一个大专文化的作家，竟被武装人员尊称首长，一句话就能让省长去他让去的地方，这到底是何方神圣？ Read more

解密档案8：激情殇

By: 丁一鹤

Narrated by: 讲鬼故事的刚子

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：丁一鹤用纪实文学的方式记录中国法制进程的一些片段，本书所展示的案件都在北京和全国产生过一定影响，有的案情也通过各种传播渠道为广大读者所知。但与其他媒体报道不同的是，本书的内容全部来自丁一鹤对案件当事人的亲自采访和他所接触的相关案卷。而且是对案件鲜为人知的内幕进行原汁原味的展示和披露。因为作者的采访和掌握的资料是一手的、真实的、独家的，所以本书对于案件的报道是具有一定深度和广度的，而且大多内容是读者闻所未闻见所未见的。 Read more

Life of Charlotte Bronte

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Narrated by: Various Readers

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (1810–1865), novelist, born in Lindsey Row, now part of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 29 Sept. 1810, was the daughter, by his first marriage, of William Stevenson [q. v.] He was a native of Berwick-on-Tweed, who, after quitting the unitarian ministry, had taken to agricultural pursuits, had written upon commerce, and finally... Read more

One Tough Dame

By: Herbie J Pilato

Narrated by: Herbie J Pilato

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and... Read more