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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Callings
Dave Isay; read by the author
2016 Voice Arts Award Nominee
Stories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave Isay. Learn More
Love That Boy
Ron Fournier; read by Jonathan Yen
Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. Learn More
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman; read by Margaret Strom
IndieBound Bestseller
This elegant scientific investigation and travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science. Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will both give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds and let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world. Learn More
Casting Lots
Susan Silverman; read by Xe Sands
From activist, speaker, mother of five, and rabbi Susan Silverman (sister of comedian Sarah): a funny, moving, sparkling memoir about home, identity, family, and faith. Learn More
Running
Jen A. Miller; read by Randye Kaye
Growing up, Jen Miller hated running. For her, running was only ever going to be conditioning for soccer or punishment for softball. It was never going to be done by choice and it was never going to be fun. Fast forward fifteen years, though, and you can't drag Jen off the road. Learn More
Save Room for Pie
Roy Blount Jr.; read by the author
Roy Blount, Jr., is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called "a work of art" (The New York Times Book Review). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. Learn More
Putin Country
Anne Garrels; read by the Author
In Putin Country, longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels crafts a necessary portrait of Russia's heartland. Learn More
Charlotte Bronte
Claire Harman; read by Corrie James
On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, the definitive biography of this extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman. Learn More
How to Be a Tudor
Ruth Goodman; read by Heather Wilds
From an historian who advised on the BBCs Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. Learn More
Dead Presidents
Brady Carlson; read by Tom Zingarelli
An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents. Learn More
Let the People Rule
Geoffrey Cowan; read by Joe Barrett
The colorful, dramatic, and surprising story of four crucial months in Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 campaign that fundamentally altered the American political process. Learn More
The Brothers Vonnegut
Ginger Strand; read by Sean Runnette
Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut Learn More
Captain in Calico
George MacDonald Fraser; read by Derek Perkins
Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser was famed for his legendary Flashman series, featuring the incorrigible knave Harry Flashman, a soldier in the imperial British army. In the colorful standalone Captain in Calico, the first novel he ever wrote but which has never been published, Fraser introduces another real-life anti-hero: Captain John Rackham, called Calico Jack, an illustrious eighteenth-century pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas. Learn More
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf; read by David Drummond
National Bestseller Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Kirkus Prize Prize for Nonfiction
The acclaimed author of The Brother Gardeners and Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas continue to influence how we view ourselves and our relationship with the natural world today. Learn More
Trumbo
Bruce Cook; read by Luke Daniels
An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist. Learn More
Kill the Silence
Monika Korra; read by Carla Mercer-Meyer
A powerful, inspiring memoir by Olympic hopeful Monika Korra, detailing how running, therapy, and her own indomitable spirit aided her recovery after being raped. Learn More
Street Poison
Justin Gifford; read by J. D. Jackson
The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, nee Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. Learn More
Bastards
Mary Anna King; read by Christina Delaine
In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, were great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them. After her father leaves the family, she is raised among a commune of mothers in a low-income housing complex. Then, no longer able to care for the only daughter she has left at home, Marys mother sends Mary away to a small town in Oklahoma to live with her maternal grandparents, who have also been raising her older sister, Rebecca. When Mary is legally adopted by her grandparents, the result is a family story like no other. Because Mary was adopted by her grandparents, Marys mother, Patty, is legally her sister, while her brother, Jacob, is legally her nephew. Learn More
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams; read by Simon Vance
Audie Finalist
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. Learn More
Buckley and Mailer
Kevin M. Schultz; read by Peter Berkrot
A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Learn More
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