Personal Memoirs

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

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

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 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

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

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

No Such Thing as a Bad Day

Hamilton Jordan; read by Hamilton Jordan

Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Learn More

Nobody's Son

by Mark Slouka; read by Tom Zingarelli

For readers of W. G. Sebald and Daniel Mendelsohn, by a writer whose storytelling is "devastatingly agile" (New York Times Book Review). Learn More

Nomadland

by Jessica Bruder; read by Karen White

Library Journal Best Book
Kirkus Best of 2017
New York Times Notable Book

Nomadland is a revelatory work of in-depth narrative journalism about a new American workforce and a shift away from retirement as we know it. Learn More

Northern Light

by Kazim Ali; read by Kazim Ali

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Kazim Ali presents his latest book, Northern Light. Learn More

Notes on a Foreign Country

by Suzy Hansen; read by Kirsten Potter

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
New York Times Notable Book
Book Page Best of 2017

Blending memoir, journalism, and history, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America's place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation―a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil. Learn More

Of Bears and Ballots

by Heather Lende; read by Karen White

The writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott,” now brings her quirky and compassionate take on holding local office. Learn More

On Our Way Home from the Revolution

by Sonya Bilocerkowycz; read by Sonya Bilocerkowycz

In these linked essays, Sonya Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate. Learn More

On the Big Blackfoot

Norman Maclean; read by John Maclean and Norman Maclean

On the Big Blackfoot is Norman Maclean's memoir about his Montana youth that inspired his beloved story, A River Runs Through It. Learn More

On Whale Island

Daniel Hays; read by Bruce Altman

As chronicled in the bestselling book My Old Man and the Sea, the thirst for living an unconventional life led Daniel Hays to sail around Cape Horn with his father in a boat they built themselves. Learn More

One Last Time

John Edward; read by John Edward

John Edward is a renowned psychic medium whose talents are matched by only a handful of people in the world. One Last Time is his remarkable story. Learn More