Read Broader: Memoir or Biography

White Supremacy Is All Around

Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

By: Akilah Cadet
Narrated by: Akilah Cadet
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... Read more

My Side of the River

A Memoir

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Narrated by: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

“What does it mean to be a first generation daughter of immigrants with a big heart? It means that you aim to succeed by always keeping your family in mind. After reckoning with the aftermath of a broken immigration system, Elizabeth navigates a demanding education alone knowing it will prioritize her family’s well-being as well as her own.... Read more

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution

A History from Below

By: Jane Kamensky
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.

Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star,... 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

Here After

A Memoir

By: Amy Lin
Narrated by: Amy Lin
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

“For the times when we don’t always know how to remember, this book is for you. It’s about the willingness to learn the names of one’s pains and how can anyone be gone when they’re very much a part of your present. Fall for Amy Lin’s Kurtis and his capacity to love as he decisively tells her: 'You weren’t a choice. It was always you.' A lyrical... Read more

The World According to Joan Didion

By: Evelyn McDonnell
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions""A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of another."" — Hua Hsu, Pulitzer-winning author of Stay... Read more

Rental Person Who Does Nothing

The True Adventures of Japan""s Do-Nothing Rental Person

By: Shoji Morimoto
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

***Now an International Bestseller!***

"Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection."—Observer

I'm starting a service... available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own.

Maybe a game you want to play, but you're one person... Read more

The Secret Life of John le Carre

By: Adam Sisman
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of... Read more

Whiskey Tender

A Memoir

By: Deborah Taffa
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Finalist for the National Book AwardLonglisted for a Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceWinner of the Southwest Book AwardA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers WeeklyAn Oprah Daily ""Best New Book"" and ""Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read"" * A New York Times ""New Book to Read"" * A... Read more

What Have We Here?

Portraits of a Life

By: Billy Dee Williams
Narrated by: Billy Dee Williams
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.

Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household... Read more