Memoir and Biography

Legacy

A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock, MD
Narrated by: Uché Blackstock, MD
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH

“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence

One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024

One of Good Morning America’s 15... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

A Decolonial Memoir

By: Shayla Lawson
Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more

The Manicurist's Daughter

A Memoir

By: Susan Lieu
Narrated by: Susan Lieu
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“A really compelling story of a woman (and her family) dealing with the aftermath of a tragic event in her childhood. Read more

Slow Noodles

A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. 

Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more

Undiplomatic

How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble

By: Deesha Dyer
Narrated by: Deesha Dyer
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Without credentials, connections or a college degree, a hip-hop journalist and community leader conquered her imposter syndrome while landing one of the most exclusive, sought-after and fun positions in the White House.
 
From the most unlikely person to end up as a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama comes a... Read more

Creep

Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba
Narrated by: Myriam Gurba
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST * A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER

“Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Brilliant…a hopeful book…rooted in the steadfast belief other worlds are possible.” —The New York Observer * “Witty,... Read more

Aftershocks

By: Nadia Owusu
Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.

“In Aftershocks, Nadia... Read more

Seeing Ghosts

A Memoir

By: Kat Chow
Narrated by: Kat Chow
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander.

Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She... Read more

Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)

A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

“Liliana of the title has been thirty years dead at the writing of this book but Cristina Rivera Garza brings her sister in her into full three-dimensional view with this book. Written as only a poet can write, Liliana's Invincible Summer is the story of a vivacious college student murdered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is... Read more

Better Living Through Birding

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.

"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World

Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more

Dear Senthuran

A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER

“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture

“One of our greatest living writers.” – Shondaland

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self”... Read more

House of Sticks

By: Ly Tran
Narrated by: Ly Tran
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

“This coming of age memoir is gripping with it's straight forward prose about a family immigration story from Vietnam to Queens, NY. Ly Tran gives a new voice to what it means to inhabit two vastly different cultures while trying to find one's identity. This book is so timely and gives a reader the inside lens and empathy to feel the challenges... Read more

King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!

This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.

"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more

An Amerikan Family

The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

By: Santi Elijah Holley
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICKAn NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence""Magnificent…. A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation."" – Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and... Read more

The Chiffon Trenches

A Memoir

By: André Leon Talley
Narrated by: André Leon Talley
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.

“The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik

NAMED ONE OF... Read more

Wolf Hustle

A Black Woman on Wall Street

By: Cin Fabré
Narrated by: Cin Fabré
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom—at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall Street.

Growing up, Cin Fabré didn’t know anything about the stock market. But she learned how to hustle from her immigrant parents, saving money so that one day she could escape her abusive father... Read more

Stay True

A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hua Hsu
Narrated by: Hua Hsu
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“Stay True by Hua Hsu is a memoir set largely in/at Berkeley in the 1990s. A quietly profound look at the momentousness of the decisions you make as an emerging adult - about friendship, romance, art, music, activism, and family. Read more

Why Fathers Cry at Night

A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

By: Kwame Alexander
Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man... Read more

Rivermouth

A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

By: Alejandra Oliva
Narrated by: Angela Juarez
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each... Read more

How Far to the Promised Land

One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley
Narrated by: Esau McCaulley
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope

“Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his own family’s stories of survival over time to remind readers that some paths to the promised land have detours along the... Read more