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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The Yank
by John Crawley; read by David de Vries
1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible—then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict. Learn More
The Year My Mother Came Back
Alice Eve Cohen; read by Alice Eve Cohen (the author)
Thirty years after her death, Alice?s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs surgery, her eldest daughter decides to track down her birth mother, and the year Alice gets a daunting diagnosis. Learn More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion; read by Barbara Caruso
This powerful and moving work is Didion's “attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity about life itself.” With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. Learn More
You Are Not Forgotten
Bryan Bender; read by Johnny Heller
The inspiring tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring him home six decades later. Learn More
You Should Be Mine
by Candy Jackson; read by Machelle Williams
In You Should Be Mine, Sasha "Pink" Jansen is determined to show Pastor Malik that they belong together—and come hell or high water, she plans to get the good reverend to agree. Learn More
Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean; read by John Maclean
Norman Maclean's classic account of the deadliest day in the U.S. Forest Service's history, the Mann Gulch tragedy. Winner of a 1992 National Book Critic Award. Learn More
Yours Truly
by James R. Hagerty; read by James R. Hagerty
In this surprisingly upbeat book about a usually downbeat subject, The Wall Street Journal's veteran obituary writer, James R. Hagerty, shares his unique skills with those who want to have the last word by crafting their own stories in their own voices—with flourish, honesty, and even humor. Learn More
Zenith Man
by McCracken Poston Jr.; read by Lee Goettl
The fascinating true story—sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking—of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had. Learn More
Zora and Langston
by Yuval Taylor; read by Bahni Turpin
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Zora and Langston is the dramatic and moving story of one of the most influential friendships in literature. Learn More
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