Read by the Author

Just Kids

By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

“Patti Smith's finest piece of nonfiction, brimming with love and dedication for Robert Mapplethorpe. Read more

With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

“This was a great listen. Emoni, a single teen mom, has so much on her plate and has maturity beyond her years. She’s realistic and responsible and navigates high school, parenting, college decisions and a budding love interest. She’s becoming a talented chef and her feelings are expressed in her food. The author narrates and she had me hooked... Read more

Finding Me

A Memoir

By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“Absolutely stunning! True definition of resilience and perseverance! Viola Davis is such an amazing soul and actor. Read more

The Storyteller: Expanded

...Because There's More to the Story

By: Dave Grohl
Narrated by: Dave Grohl
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety’s Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible’s Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 * 2 Million Copies Sold WorldwideThe Remastered Edition…Because There’s Always More to... Read more about The Storyteller: Expanded

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

“Another major hit by Patrick Radden Keefe, one of the best journalists working today. This is the story of the Sackler family—the ones behind Oxycontin, and thus the opiod crisis. The book shows how the family founders went from small pharmaceutical company owners to one of the biggest in the country, to then the harbingers of doom in their... Read more

Dreams from My Father

A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

NOW AVAILABLE UNABRIDGED ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book... Read more about Dreams from My Father

Beloved

Pulitzer Prize Winner

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison & Karen Murray
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.”... Read more about Beloved

Deep Wheel Orcadia

Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke Award

By: Harry Josephine Giles
Narrated by: Harry Josephine Giles
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations.

Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station... Read more about Deep Wheel Orcadia

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“This isn't the book you think it is, and that's great news. Rather than offering cheap productivity hacks, this philosophical work instead will help you face two important (albeit uncomfortable) truths: (1) In the 4,000 weeks or so you have to live, you won't be able to get everything you want done, and (2) accepting that will help you redirect... Read more

Hey, Kiddo (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Narrated by: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jeanne Birdsall, Richard Ferrone, Jenna Lamia & Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

“Full cast narrated memoir (including the author and some others from the actual story!) Read more

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner
Narrated by: Rebecca Donner
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award 
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Finalist for the Plutarch Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
A New York Times Book... Read more about All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

Symphony for the City of the Dead

Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: M. T. Anderson
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to... Read more about Symphony for the City of the Dead

This Much is True

'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By: Miriam Margolyes
Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had -- this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait.

'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY

Award-winning actor, creator of a... Read more about This Much is True

Bits and Pieces

Thoughts from a Life in Poetry and Prose

By: Joyce Henefield Coleman
Narrated by: Marie Andrascik
Length: 59 minutes

Everyone’s life is a story. A story of a journey through joy and sadness, winning and losing, good health and illness, love and hate. The challenge is to navigate through life and to remain the person you were meant to be. To embrace life with all its joys and problems and to make it a source for goodness, love, beauty, and happiness for... Read more about Bits and Pieces

H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling international sensation hailed as an “instant classic” (Dwight Garner).

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

One of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the 21st Century

One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year

One of Slate’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books... Read more about H is for Hawk

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Narrated by: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a... Read more about Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Making It So

A Memoir

By: Patrick Stewart
Narrated by: Patrick Stewart
Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

“Probably my favorite audiobook of 2023. What a delight to learn about Stewart's life and his journey from a small working class town in England to LA. And you are in for a treat if you grab the audiobook which is narrated by Stewart and features a clip from A Christmas Carol at the very end. Read more

Seascraper

A Novel

By: Benjamin Wood
Narrated by: Benjamin Wood
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

“Seascraper is a marvellous story of class, toil, and the peculiar confines of small town life. A young weather beaten shrimp fisherman is scouted to host an American filmmaker in his quest for a shot deep within the coast. Their respective quirks and concerns are the central dynamic of this poetic narrative, which conjures picturesque and bleak... Read more

Seascraper

By: Benjamin Wood
Narrated by: Benjamin Wood
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025*
*WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE 2026*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026*


Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a... Read more about Seascraper

Dead and Alive

By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith

In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years.

She takes an... Read more about Dead and Alive