Biography & Memoir audiobooks
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
The Best Minds
By: Jonathan Rosen
Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023
“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times
“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall... Read more
Lovely One
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Narrated by: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.
“A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
A NEW YORK TIMES... Read more
Broken (in the best possible way)
By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel...Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From... Read more
Into Thin Air
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had... Read more
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
Narrated by: Maria Ressa & Rebecca Mozo
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international... Read more
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Care and Feeding
By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications,... Read more
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Wow, No Thank You.
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and... Read more
Code Name: Pale Horse
By: Scott Payne
Narrated by: Scott Payne
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an “urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent” (Joe Pistone) by “one of the top undercover agents in the Bureau” (Joaquin “Jack” Garcia).
When Scott Payne was growing up,... Read more
All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**
"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." —The Houston Chronicle
A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.
All Creatures Great and... Read more
Accidentally on Purpose
By: Kristen Kish
Narrated by: Kristen Kish
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A tender, cleareyed memoir, Accidentally on Purpose charts a journey full of purpose, belonging, and real love—a “recipe for a life worth living” (Stacy London).
Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name—not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even... Read more
Keep Moving
By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL
“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
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What It Takes to Heal
By: Prentis Hemphill
Narrated by: Prentis Hemphill
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level.
“I love this book.”—Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
“In a time when so many of us are being trained in cynicism, this book stands in necessary defiance.”—Cole... Read more
Things Become Other Things
By: Craig Mod
Narrated by: Craig Mod
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan’s ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heartrending remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented in poignant, imaginative prose and remarkable photography.
“An epic, exquisitely detailed journey, on foot, through a rural Japan few of us are likely to experience.... Read more
The Purposeful Warrior
By: Jocelyn Benson
Narrated by: Amanda Seyfried, Jocelyn Benson & Maria Shriver
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a road map for shattering the status quo and standing up for ourselves, our communities, and our country.
AN OPEN FIELD BOOK FROM MARIA SHRIVER
As Michigan’s Secretary of State and chief election official, Jocelyn Benson has overseen several of the highest turnout, most secure elections in the... Read more
Men Have Called Her Crazy
By: Anna Marie Tendler
Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the Lambda Literary Award winner In... Read more
Knife
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Town & Country, New... Read more
My Black Country
By: Alice Randall
Narrated by: Alice Randall
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.
Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history:... Read more
Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
Narrated by: Hannah Gadsby
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. In this “enthralling” (The Washington Post) memoir, they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.
Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s Something Special, now streaming!
“Hannah is a... Read more
1776
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more
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Hidden Valley Road
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
"Reads like a medical... Read more
Counting the Cost
By: Jill Duggar
Narrated by: Jill Duggar
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show in this “no-holds barred” (People)... Read more
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Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal
By: Robin Ince
Narrated by: Robin Ince
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook is read with warmth, humility and humour by the author, Robin Ince, and includes an audio-exclusive Q&A between Robin and scientist and author Camilla Pang.
'Authentic, heartbreakingly wonderful and refreshingly grounded — this book captures the internal neurodivergent experience with rare grace and warmth' - Camilla... Read more
Sucker Punch
By: Scaachi Koul
Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Certain authors are their own best narrators.... Here, Koul's accomplished reading comes with the bonus of regular vocal interjections from her father." —Library Journal on One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
This program is read by the author.
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices... Read more
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