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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Pryor Convictions
by Richard Pryor; read by JD Jackson
Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood—the money, the women, the drugs—and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Learn More
Dressed Up for a Riot
by Michael Idov; read by Michael Idov
In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become. 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
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
This Is How I Save My Life
by Amy B. Scher; read by Amy B. Scher
This Is How I Save My Life is a powerful and uplifting story of sheer determination for anyone who believes in—or doubts—the existence of miracles and the infinite power of self-healing when it seems like all hope is lost. Learn More
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
by Michael Bennett; contributing author Dave Zirin; read by JD Jackson
Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is a sports book for our times, a sports memoir and manifesto as hilarious as it is revealing. Learn More
Things That Helped
by Jessica Friedmann; read by Shiromi Arserio
In Things That Helped Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essays. Learn More
Broadway
by Fran Leadon; read by Kevin Pariseau
Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the seventeenth-century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the twentieth century's Great White Way. Learn More
Love and Death in the Sunshine State
by Cutter Wood; read by Joe Barrett
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Learn More
Reading the Man
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor; read by Jo Anna Perrin
Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Robert E. Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness. Learn More
A Spy Named Orphan
by Roland Philipps; read by Jonathan Cowley
A Spy Named Orphan is the first full biography of one of the most intriguing and important spies of the twentieth century. Learn More
Tesla
by Richard Munson; read by Charles Constant
Though Tesla's inventions transformed our world, his true originality is shown in the visionary ambitions he failed to achieve. Learn More
The End of the World as We Know It
by Robert Goolrick; read by Peter Berkrot
Beautifully written, often humorous, sometimes sweet, ultimately shocking, The End of the World as We Know It is a son's story of looking back with both love and anger at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it. Contains mature themes. Learn More
Sex Money Murder
by Jonathan Green; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and the violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx. Learn More
Autumn in Venice
by Andrea di Robilant; read by P.J. Ochlan
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there—a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Learn More
Eisenhower vs. Warren
by James F. Simon; read by Jonathan Yen
The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Compellingly written, Eisenhower vs. Warren brings to vivid life the clash that continues to reverberate in political and constitutional debates today. Learn More
Inseparable
by Yunte Huang; read by PJ Ochlan
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award
With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Learn More
Resistance
by Jeff Biggers; read by Johnny Heller
Across cities, towns, and campuses, Americans are grappling with overwhelming challenges and the daily fallout from the most authoritarian White House policies in recent memory. Learn More
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
by Graham Caveney; read by Jonathan Cowley
An enthralling, emotional memoir that recounts the ups and downs of coming-of-age, set against the music and literature of the 1970s. Learn More
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
by John Callahan; read by Joe Barrett
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot recounts John Callahan's life story, from the harrowing to the hilarious. Learn More
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