Biography & Memoir audiobooks
Extreme Ownership
By: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Narrated by: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership audiobook that took... Read more
When Breath Becomes Air
By: Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?
“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year
“A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” —Time
“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the... Read more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute... Read more
Tranny
By: Laura Jane Grace
Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more
How To Tell When We Will Die
By: Johanna Hedva
Narrated by: Johanna Hedva
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life. In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to... Read more
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Rebel Girl
By: Kathleen Hanna
Narrated by: Kathleen Hanna
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and... Read more
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Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal... Read more
Sister, Sinner
By: Claire Hoffman
Narrated by: Carmen Seantel
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s most famous woman evangelist.On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A national media frenzy and months of investigation ensued. Who... Read more
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Theater Kid
By: Jeffrey Seller
Narrated by: Jeffrey Seller, Annaleigh Ashford, Kyle Beltran...
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize–winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent. Read by the author and a full cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway actors!
The star-studded cast includes: Annaleigh Ashford, Kyle Beltran, Steven Boyer,... Read more
Turning to Birds
By: Lili Taylor
Narrated by: Lili Taylor
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Eye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments—from award-winning actor Lili Taylor.
“By turns introspective, inquisitive, and funny, the book is a love letter to nature and the solace it can provide.”—The New Yorker
Most people don’t really know birds—or rather, they... Read more
How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Narrated by: Saeed Jones
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The... Read more
The Wretched of the Earth
By: Frantz Fanon
Narrated by: Aaron Goodson
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive English translation by Constance Farrington. First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth offers a powerful exploration of race, colonialism, and the psychological impact of oppression. This seminal text has inspired generations of revolutionaries and activists, influencing movements from decolonization... Read more
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Source Code
By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Bill Gates
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age
“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in... Read more
Dinners with Ruth
By: Nina Totenberg
Narrated by: Nina Totenberg
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a... Read more
Survival of the Thickest
By: Michelle Buteau
Narrated by: Michelle Buteau
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
*Now a Netflix series—Season 2 coming soon!*
Stand-up comedian and star of Netflix’s Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall and creator and star of Survival of the Thickest delivers a collection of “hilarious…bracingly honest” (Real Simple) essays in her unique voice, cheeky swagger, and unapologetic frankness that’s “one... Read more
Let the Record Show
By: Sarah Schulman
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams & Sarah Schulman
Length: 27 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want... Read more
Becoming Bulletproof
By: Evy Poumpouras
Narrated by: Evy Poumpouras
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are perceived, and live a more fearless... Read more
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Careless People
By: Sarah Wynn-Williams
Narrated by: Sarah Wynn-Williams
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meta wants to silence her voice. You can hear her words.
'Devastating . . . funny . . . highly enjoyable . . . A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' The Times
'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' Financial Times
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream... Read more
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem
By: Rob Sheffield
Narrated by: Rob Sheffield
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
***The Instant New York Times Bestseller!***An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s... Read more
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The Paranormal Ranger
By: Stanley Milford, Jr.
Narrated by: Stanley Milford, Jr. & Duane Minard
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!*A Navajo Ranger’s chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in NavajolandAs a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was... Read more
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That Librarian
By: Amanda Jones
Narrated by: Amanda Jones
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards
"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more
Finding Freedom
By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Erin French's] memoir treats listeners to a smooth ride through an anything-but-smooth life. French's engrossing narration delivers polished consistency, and her gentle tone ushers listeners through her story. She speaks with passion and grace, creating a compelling narrative--with plenty of mouthwatering food descriptions." -- AudioFile... Read more
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The Dry Season
By: Melissa Febos
Narrated by: Melissa Febos
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.
“Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence. She never fails in her candor and... Read more
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