Memoirs You Can't Stop Listening To

I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here

Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way

By: Jonathan Conyers
Narrated by: Jonathan Conyers, Imani Bruno, Dr. Jarvis Watson, Francisco A. Colón, Kristine DiColandrea & Pamela Matzner
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

 As seen on Humans of New York, Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the teachers, his debate coach, drug dealers, and a boy named Diego who changed his life.
 
Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after seeing his profile on Humans of New York went viral and sparked millions in donations to the Brooklyn Debate League. The kid who went from... Read more

Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways

A Memoir

By: Brittany Means
Narrated by: Brittany Means & Benjamin White
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

A PEOPLE magazine pick, Best Books Fall 2023: “A breathtaking memoir about surviving a horrifying childhood; Means...transforms memories...into a work of art.”
Starred review from Kirkus: “This book is an outstanding debut…A harrowing and soulful memoir to be read, savored, and reread."
“I can’t write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child... Read more

Hola Papi

How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

By: John Paul Brammer
Narrated by: John Paul Brammer
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

“Gay and Chicano advice columnist J.P. Brammer offers lessons for LGBTQIA+ people (and really anyone) based off his youth, past dating experiences, and coming into his identities. Brammer approaches his reflections with a mixture of sass and sensitivity, thus making for a highly enjoyable read. Read more

The Sound of Gravel

A Memoir

By: Ruth Wariner
Narrated by: Ruth Wariner
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“This is a memoir made extraordinary simply by the fact that the author lived to tell the tale. Wariner grew up in a polygamist cult across the Mexican border, the 39th of her father's 41 children. Surrounded by crushing poverty and repeated tragedy, little Ruth was taught that girls are born to be used by callous men and an angry God. However,... Read more

Nowhere Girl

A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

By: Cheryl Diamond
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“This was such a deftly paced story; often incredibly touching and funny, yet heavily laced with intrigue and terror. No memoir has gripped me more since Kiese Laymon's Heavy. Read more

I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy
Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

“From the eyes and experiences of a child-actress, Jennette McCurdy recounts her life with a heavy focus on how her mother developed, impacted, and controlled it. It’s a fascinating and heavy read, and the lasting effect it leaves will make you really think about how you view celebrities. They are just as human as everyone else and the lasting... Read more

The Last Girl

My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
 
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and... Read more

Uncultured

A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

"Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox. Memoir readers will want to check this one out."- Library Journal

"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest... Read more

Solito

A Memoir

By: Javier Zamora
Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more

The Sun Does Shine

How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

By: Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Hardin
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson & Kevin R. Free
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was... Read more

Trejo

My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

By: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue
Narrated by: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

In this “celebration of a life fully lived” (Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us), discover the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss—it’s “enough to make you believe in the possibility of a Hollywood ending” (The New York Times Book Review).

On screen, Danny... Read more

Educated

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“How a young woman, raised without modern medicine, any schooling, or even a birth certificate, in a remote Mormon, survivalist household in Idaho, made it to college and ended up receiving a PhD from Cambridge is the incredible story of this memoir. Outstanding! This true story is a beautifully written and narrated, soulful, hilarious,... Read more

The Line Becomes a River

Dispatches from the Border

By: Francisco Cantú
Narrated by: Francisco Cantú
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

“The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu is part memoir of a border patrolman, part history of the US-Mexican border and part reflections on what it means to be human. Cantu gives us a real behind the scenes look at the dichotomy of border crossings: vicious drug dealers contrast sharply with desperate individuals who fork over life savings... Read more

Normal Family

On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By: Chrysta Bilton
Narrated by: Chrysta Bilton
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

This riveting, nuanced memoir about unforgettable individuals thrown together by chance and DNA tells a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance. What is a “normal family,” and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton’s magnetic, larger-than-life mother, Debra, yearned to have a child, but as a single gay... Read more