Top Biographical Audiobooks
The Fifth Vital
Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair....
The Giant Killer
"A tiny homeless man confesses his shocking life story to his only friend—a Miami police officer. Just ten days later, he is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run. The officer embarks on a three-year quest to uncover the truth behind the man’s...
But My Brain Had Other Ideas
When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas—tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain—were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then another. And then another. And that was just the...
Fixing the Fates
The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at...
Brave Genius
The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert...
Fox & I
"Mysterious and magical." ―Wall Street Journal“[A] book everyone will be talking about… [A] real-life friendship that mirrors the one between Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince and his fox, full of tenderness and understanding." ―The New York...
A Heart that Works
New York Times bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * EntertainmentWeekly Best Books of 2022 * USA Today Best Books of 2022 * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 * Mother Jones Books We Needed in 2022 * People Fall Must Read * 2022 BuzzFeed...
The Confessions of St. Augustine
A story of spiritual awakening, St. Augustine's Confessions is a fascinating look at the life of an eminent Christian thinker. Widely seen as one of the first Western autobiographies ever written, it chronicles the life and religious struggles of...
It Was All a Dream
Journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is a fresh, insightful telling of the life beyond the legend. It is based on extensive interviews with those who knew and loved Biggie, including neighbors, friends, DJs, party promoters, and journalists....
Autobiography of a Yogi (Unabridged)
Autobiography of a Yogi will introduce the listener to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the Eastern and the Western world. The audio book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to...
End of the Spear
2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography!Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a...
Anne Frank
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms—"the Annex"—in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the...
In the Presence of My Enemies
2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner!Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of...
Premium Audiobooks
"You're Not Doing It Right"
In "You're Not Doing It Right," Ellen Patnaude bravely opens the door to the haunting reality of Lewy body dementia (LBD) and unravels its profound impact on families. One of the most common types of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, LBD is marked...
1001 Nights in Iraq
Shant Kenderian’s visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be short, just long enough to make peace with his estranged father before returning home to the United States. But Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq’s borders to...
12 Simple Words
One of the things that drives John W. Kennedy the craziest and increases his personal cynicism is the fact that we do not communicate anymore. This sounds odd in a world full of communication devices, but 'talking at' is not 'talking with' others. We...
29 Gifts
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she...
365 Days of Philosophy
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Want a no-nonsense way to sharpen your thinking every day? The newly refreshed and updated 365 Days of Philosophy brings together bold ideas from 130+ legendary minds—Stoics, Socrates, Simone de Beauvoir,...
50 Principles to Thrive in Life
What If Everything You’ve Been Told About Success is a Lie?Most people go through life surviving, not thriving—stuck in routines, weighed down by fear, and wondering why they can’t break through to the life they dream about. But here’s the truth:...
60's Icons
Beatle insider Geoffrey Giuliano presents a complex and often unsettling portrait of Paul McCartney, drawing from extensive interviews with the star and those around him. McCartney emerges as a figure of contradictions—an indulgent entrepreneur yet a...
70 Biographies of Visionaries in 500 Words Each
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Ever wanted to explore the lives of history’s most influential figures—without wading through lengthy biographies? This book distills the journeys of 70 visionaries into clear, concise, and engaging...
88 Days to Kandahar
The "first" Afghan War, the CIA's war in response to 9/11, was approved by President Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani...
9/11
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This meticulously curated collection brings together four compelling books that offer unique perspectives on the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and their far-reaching consequences.Book 1 - Before The...
90 Degrees to Zamboanga
Sometimes comedic and sometimes deadly serious; the story is told by one of its major participants. Naive college students in the late 1960s, looking for excitement and adventure, smuggle kilos of marijuana on their backs over the Mexican border and...
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka
A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered pastIn the twilight of the Cold War, nine-year-old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only...
A Beautiful Mind
This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer...
A Body of Work
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist the New York Times described as “the foremost classical stylist of our day,” presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to...
A Girlhood
A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family’s door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of...
A Good Life: The Perception OF Perfection (Revised Edition)
What happens next? After the diagnosis? After the medication? After you learn to live with it, – do you ever?Following on from The Memoir of a Schizophrenic, this is a raw and honest second memoir by Karl Lorenz Willett, which continues to explore...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times...
A Guitar Called Harry V And The Cover Band Conundrum
Musician, Scott Paris, spent a year documenting the day-in and day-out grind of the professional gigging bar band. He highlights a particularly versatile guitar he's just acquired and treats it as the sidekick of the story. The two have quite the...
A Handful of Happiness
A feel-good memoir of a man and his hedgehogMassimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed―until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his...
A Letter from Paris
When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a Frenchwoman called Coralie, who has found a cache of letters in an attic, written about Louisa’s father, neither woman can imagine the events it will set in motion.The letters, dated 1949, detail a...
A Life In The Sunshine
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The story of Everett Prewitt’s life could have been titled From the Poolrooms to the Boardrooms, but that would only tell part of the story. His journey—from the streets of his neighborhood in Cleveland,...
A Life of Battles to free her Generations
A Life of Battles to Free Her Generations is a powerful and deeply moving audiobook written by Llianne Rocheleau, honoring the extraordinary life and sacrifices of her mother.This true, inspiring story follows a young girl forced to flee her home in...
A Man on the Inside Season 2
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Dive into the thrilling world of “A Man on the Inside Season 2”—where every clue uncovers a deeper mystery, and every twist leaves you breathless.In this riveting second season, Ted Danson and Mary...
A Mind That Found Itself (Unabridged)
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."A Mind That Found Itself" is a raw and unflinching memoir that shattered the silence surrounding mental illness. Clifford Whittingham Beers shares his harrowing experiences within the confines of early...
A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You’re about to hear the wartime memories of David E. Holt, a Mississippi farm boy who marched off to the Civil War at sixteen and served in the fabled Army of Northern Virginia. Holt fought through some...