Biography & Memoir audiobooks
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Kitchen Confidential
By:
Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by:
Anthony Bourdain
Length:
8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged:
No
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his... Read more about Kitchen Confidential
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Why Fish Don't Exist
By:
Lulu Miller
Narrated by:
Lulu Miller
Length:
4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged:
No
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. “At one point, Miller dives into the... Read more about Why Fish Don't Exist
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Empire of Pain
By:
Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by:
Patrick Radden Keefe
Length:
18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged:
No
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling... Read more about Empire of Pain
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Not My Type
By:
E. Jean Carroll
Narrated by:
E. Jean Carroll
Length:
12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged:
No
AN INSTANT INDIE, USA TODAY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“The world knows that Carroll prevailed in her gazillion-dollar lawsuits against Trump for defamation and sexual abuse. But hearing her describe that courtroom battle in her own smoky, mirth-filled drawl is an experience too delicious for the printed page. Which is why you shouldn’t read... Read more about Not My Type
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Work in Progress
By:
James Martin
Narrated by:
James Martin
Length:
11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged:
No
In this humorous memoir, listen to New York Times bestselling author and podcast host of The Spiritual Life, Father James Martin as he shares the story of his life as a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a Jesuit priest."Funny, charming, inspiring and wise—this is a memorable memoir."... Read more about Work in Progress
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South to America
By:
Imani Perry
Narrated by:
Imani Perry
Length:
16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more about South to America
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The Light We Carry
By:
Michelle Obama
Narrated by:
Michelle Obama
Length:
9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged:
No
2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy... Read more about The Light We Carry
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What My Bones Know
By:
Stephanie Foo
Narrated by:
Stephanie Foo
Length:
10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should... Read more about What My Bones Know
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Adult Braces
By:
Lindy West
Narrated by:
Lindy West
Length:
TBA
Abridged:
No
In her most ambitious memoir yet, bestselling author Lindy West takes listeners on a funny and unfiltered cross-country road trip through the most chaotic period of her life. Exclusive self-recorded voice memos captured on the road give this audiobook a raw, real-time immediacy as she rediscovers herself and reinvents her marriage in the... Read more about Adult Braces
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Just Kids
By:
Patti Smith
Narrated by:
Patti Smith
Length:
9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged:
No
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship,... Read more about Just Kids
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Finding My Way
By:
Malala Yousafzai
Narrated by:
Malala Yousafzai
Length:
8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! | A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority’s coming of age.” —The New York Times This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s... Read more about Finding My Way
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How Far the Light Reaches
By:
Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by:
Sabrina Imbler
Length:
5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged:
No
A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more about How Far the Light Reaches
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Leslie F*cking Jones
By:
Leslie Jones
Narrated by:
Leslie Jones & Chris Rock
Length:
16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an ‘Earphones Award’, saying: “No listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.” Hey you guys, it’s... Read more about Leslie F*cking Jones
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Mark Twain
By:
Ron Chernow
Narrated by:
Jason Culp
Length:
44 hours 35 minutes
Abridged:
No
The #1 New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025• A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews“Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River, its prose propelled by... Read more about Mark Twain
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Freedom Lost, Freedom Won
By:
Eugene Robinson
Narrated by:
Eugene Robinson
Length:
11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged:
No
Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.On... Read more about Freedom Lost, Freedom Won
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A Hymn to Life
By:
Gisèle Pelicot
Narrated by:
Emma Thompson
Length:
TBA
Abridged:
No
NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, TIME, LIT HUB, VULTURE, and moreThe sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for shame to "change sides." For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot waived her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her... Read more about A Hymn to Life
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The Splendid and the Vile
By:
Erik Larson
Narrated by:
John Lee & Erik Larson
Length:
17 hours 49 minutes
Abridged:
No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the BlitzNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post • HuffPost • The Seattle Times • Lit Hub • The Week • PopSugarOn... Read more about The Splendid and the Vile
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Joyride
By:
Susan Orlean
Narrated by:
Susan Orlean
Length:
14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged:
No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, OPRAH DAILY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, GOODREADS, AND MORE “Brilliant…A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir.” —The Wall Street Journal • “In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of writing.” —Elle • “Wise and exuberant…It’s funny, as well. Just... Read more about Joyride
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Uncultured
By:
Daniella Mestyanek Young
Narrated by:
Daniella Mestyanek Young
Length:
13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged:
No
"It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult." —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño "Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s... Read more about Uncultured
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The Demon of Unrest
By:
Erik Larson
Narrated by:
Will Patton & Erik Larson
Length:
17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times). “A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best,... Read more about The Demon of Unrest
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That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
By:
Elyse Myers
Narrated by:
Elyse Myers
Length:
5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book. Elyse brings her trademark style to the audiobook edition through her candid, conversational delivery—equal parts humor, vulnerability, and self-awareness. She shaped the pacing herself, occasionally layering in... Read more about That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
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Know My Name
By:
Chanel Miller
Narrated by:
Chanel Miller
Length:
15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged:
No
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter."—The Wrap"I opened... Read more about Know My Name
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What I Ate in One Year
By:
Stanley Tucci
Narrated by:
Stanley Tucci
Length:
8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged:
No
From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals. “Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.” Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked... Read more about What I Ate in One Year
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
By:
Maria Bamford
Narrated by:
Maria Bamford
Length:
7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged:
No
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and “laugh-out-loud funny” (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends... Read more about Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
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