Biography & Memoir audiobooks

To the Stars - Abridged

By: George Takei

Narrated by: George Takei

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Best known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise™ and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek®—the unprecedented television and feature film phenomenon.

From the program’s birth in the changing world of the 1960s... Read more

Empire

By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 28 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more

Grace - Abridged

By: Robert Lacey

Narrated by: Donna Mills

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the age of 25, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress and little more than a year later, she became royalty. Stunningly beautiful, elusive, and aloof, Grace Kelly captured our imagination and affection throughout her storybook career and royal marriage. Raised in Philadelphia in an atmosphere of great wealth and greater expectations,... Read more

Funny People - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few people had a better perspective on comedy and comedians than the master of it all, Steve Allen. In Funny People, Allen conveys insightful and personal observations— by anecdote and example— of some of the 20th century' s greatest comic performers: Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, and Jimmy Durante.... Read more

The Hiding Place

By: Corrie ten Boom

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated... Read more

Leaving Home - Abridged

By: Art Buchwald

Narrated by: Art Buchwald

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Funny men don't necessarily have funny childhoods. Art Buchwald had to find his humor the hard way. In this poignant memoir, Buchwald writes with intimacy and candor about his early years— of a life constantly on the move and in the company of strangers. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother were separated. He tells of a... Read more

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places - Abridged

By: Le Hayslip & Jay Wurts

Narrated by: Nancy Kwan

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. Le Ly Hayslip— the youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family— was 12 years old when... Read more

See I Told You So - Abridged

By: Rush Limbaugh

Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with The Way Things Ought to Be, the #1 New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling audio in history. Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative political commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate—this “harmless little... Read more

Lucifer’s Child - Abridged

By: William Luce

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more

Here on Gilligan’s Isle - Abridged

By: Russell Johnson & Steve Cox

Narrated by: Russell Johnson

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sit right back and take a nostalgic, first-hand look into the world of Gilligan's Island— everything you ever wanted to know about the show from the Professor himself, Russell Johnson. Directly from the ship's log, Johnson takes you to the day when Sherwood Schwartz shipwrecked seven strangers on a tiny desert isle— and... Read more

Beating the Street - Abridged

By: Peter Lynch

Narrated by: Peter Lynch

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.

Develop a Winning Investment Strategy—with Expert Advice from “The Nation’s #1 Money Manager.” Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a... Read more

Bound for Glory - Abridged

By: Woody Guthrie

Narrated by: Arlo Guthrie

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Legendary folk singer and activist, Woody Guthrie and his songs changed the world. Born in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, Guthrie traveled America by boxcar, thumb, and foot. Along the journey, he composed and sang songs that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. This remarkable autobiography brings to life... Read more

Marlene Dietrich - Abridged

By: Steven Bach

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe. In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six... Read more

The Late Show - Abridged

By: Helen Brown

Narrated by: Helen Gurley Brown

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Part advice manual and part memoir, The Late Show is truly an insightful guide to growing old, presented in candid, unyielding, and often humorous form by Helen Gurley Brown. Focused on such topics as emotional security, marriage, money, sex, beauty, exercise, health, and work, Brown explains her philosophy and shares personal experiences. She... Read more

Chicago Days / Hoboken Nights - Abridged

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As millions of radio listeners already know, no one has had a life quite like storyteller Daniel Pinkwater. In this comical collection of memories, Pinkwater tells of how he grew into the beloved figure he is today: a robust genius of the printed page and rotund genie of the radio. He shares a conversation with his father about art school that... Read more

Diana: Her True Story - Abridged

By: Andrew Morton

Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Her life has seemed liek a fairy-tale come true. . .
yet the shocking truth is that for Diana Princess of Wales, life has been far from perfect. Written with the cooperation and support of members of Diana's family and her closest friends, Diana: Her True Story reveals a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who has suffered from chronic illness... Read more

Truman - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more

Tales Told By An Idiot - Abridged

By: Keith Perreur-Lloyd

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the age of youthful unreasoning, Keith Perreur-Lloyd cut his ties, and set off with enough money to last for a couple of months - well maybe three. Effectively, he had begun his career ... fundless travel. His pattern over the following years - involving about 114 jobs - was to leave a country with whatever he had saved whilst working... Read more

Stranger Beside Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Ann Rule

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Meeting... Read more

The Last Great Ride - Abridged

By: Brandon Tartikoff

Narrated by: Brandon Tartikoff

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1980, Brandon Tartikoff became president of NBC Entertainment. At the age of 31, he was the youngest person ever to hold such a position. When he left NBC a decade later, he had held the job longer than anyone, and NBC had attained a streak of dominance never equaled. A list of his successes include some of the greatest shows in television... Read more

Peter the Great

By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 43 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more

Rivethead

By: Ben Hamper

Narrated by: Joe Don Baker

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Hamper vowed never to be an autoworker. Life had other plans. In the 1970s and '80s, the General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Michigan provided steady work for the town's citizens. But at what cost? The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue-collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a... Read more

Still Talking - Abridged

By: Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Picking up where her successful autobiography Enter Talking left off, Joan Rivers delivers a searing and funny account—as only she can—of private tragedy, a public fall from grace, and triumph against all odds. In Still Talking, Joan opens up about her rise to the top, dishes on fellow celebrities, and recounts the end of her treasured... Read more

Warrior for Peace

By: Danaan Parry

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an extraordinary interview on conflict and peace. Parry tells deeply moving stories from his own life - from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland to his own neighborhood laundromat. They are stories of anger, truth and healing. Read more