Biography • Memoir
Share in the childhood tales of A Girl Named Zippy. Hear Kenneth Branagh read Samuel Pepys' exuberant 17th-century diary. Be transformed by the extraordinary women of Half the Sky. You'll find these and other remarkable life stories under biography and memoir.
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No Encore!
by Drew Fortune; read by Peter Berkrot
Featuring never-before-told stories, No Encore! takes you on tour with over sixty iconic musicians as they relive their weirdest, wildest, most embarrassing gigs. Learn More
The Nine Lives of Pakistan
by Declan Walsh; read by Roger Clark
The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Learn More
Nine Irish Lives
by Mark Bailey; read by Alana Kerr Collins and Alan Smyth
In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish Americans. Learn More
Nine Continents
by Xiaolu Guo; read by Emily Woo Zeller
2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner
Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life beyond the limits of its borders. Learn More
The Next Better Place
Michael C. Keith; read by Oliver Wyman
The Next Better Place explores the thin line between wanderlust and compulsion, between running away and arriving, and leaves us with the understanding that the journey is often more powerful than the destination. Learn More
The New Old Me
by Meredith Maran; read by Christina Delaine
For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a post-divorce memoir, one woman’s story of starting over at 60—in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. Learn More
Never a Lovely So Real
by Colin Asher; read by David Colacci
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters. Learn More
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
by Barbara K. Lipska; read by Emma Powell
As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. Learn More
The Negotiator
George Mitchell; read by Norman Dietz
Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he’s learned about the art of negotiation. Learn More
My Years With General Motors
by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of over fifty years' time. Even today, Bill Gates praises My Years with General Motors as the best book to read on business, and Business Week has named it the number one choice for its "bookshelf of indispensable reading." Learn More
My West Side Story
by George Chakiris, Lindsay Harrison, Rita Moreno; read by George Chakiris, George Newbern
George Chakiris presents his must-listen memoir, My West Side Story. Learn More
My Quest for Health Equity
by David Satcher, MD, PhD; read by David Satcher, MD, PhD
In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role—whether in academia, community, or government—as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field. Learn More
My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas Gandhi; read by Frederick Davidson
This work is Gandhi’s autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times. Learn More
My Brothers' Keeper
by Gloria Reuben; read by Gloria Reuben
My Brothers' Keeper carries the listener through a deeply personal and intimate journey, as Gloria Reuben explores her love of the life she shared with her brothers, as well as the myriad of emotions and experiences after their sudden deaths. Learn More
My Baby First Birthday
by Jenny Zhang; read by Jenny Zhang
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine
Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Learn More
My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer; read by Xe Sands
Indie Next List
Profoundly moving and often funny, this meditation on tolerance explores what it means to open our hearts to another culture and to embrace our own. Learn More
The Murder of Sonny Liston
by Shaun Assael; read by R. C. Bray
A re-examination of the circumstances surrounding former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston's death in Las Vegas in 1970. Learn More
Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin; read by Peter Godwin
The author shares his experiences as a white child growing up in an African colony rapidly collapsing into chaos, in a memoir of Africa seen through the eyes of a child as a magical, frightening place and then through the haunted eyes of an adolescent soldier. Learn More
Mr. B
by Jennifer Homans; read by Cassandra Campbell
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing"—from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Learn More
Motherhood So White
by Nefertiti Austin; read by Allyson Johnson
In this unflinching account of her parenting journey, Nefertiti Austin examines the history of adoption in the African American community, faces off against stereotypes of single, black motherhood, and confronts the reality of raising children of color in racially charged, modern-day America. Learn More
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