Personal Memoirs

Bang Bang Crash

by Nic Brown; read by Nic Brown

A rock and roll drummer abandons his successful music career to pursue his true passion and discovers a deeper understanding of artistic fulfillment in this episodic memoir of swapping one dream for another. Learn More

Bad Dog

Martin Kihn; read by David Drummond

A hilarious, acerbic, utterly unleashed story about recovery, and about winning back years of squandered trust—two-legged and four-legged. Learn More

Autoportrait

by Jesse Ball; read by James Patrick Cronin

A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America's best contemporary novelists. Learn More

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By Ben Barres; read by Paul Boehmer

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science. Learn More

At the Helm

by John H. Dalton; read by Shawn Compton

John Dalton's life is an inspirational American success story. At the Helm traces his journey from modest beginnings in Louisiana to traveling the world and working across private and public sectors and four presidential appointments all culminating in his appointment as the 70th Secretary of the Navy. Learn More

At the Center of All Beauty

by Fenton Johnson; read by Sean Runnette

From Fenton Johnson, a profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude. Learn More

The Art of Waiting

by Belle Boggs; read by C.S.E. Cooney

Publishers Weekly Best Book
Finalist PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility. In The Art of Waiting, Belle Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family. Learn More

Architects of Self-Destruction

by John Gentile and Brad Logan; read by Brad Logan

Architects of Self-Destruction: An Oral History of Leftöver Crack traces the band's entire history by speaking to the band members themselves, fellow musicians, their fans, and of course, those that still hold a grudge against the LoC. Learn More

Apology to the Young Addict

by James Brown; read by Charles Constant

Haunting and hopeful, Apology to the Young Addict is a reinvention of the recovery memoir and a lasting testimony from a master writing at his peak. Learn More

American Sucker

David Denby; read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Learn More

Amazing Gracie

Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff; read by Henry Leyva

It’s a love story. A story of salvation. And a rags-to-riches story about a dog—yes, a dog—who launched Three Dog Bakery. Learn More

Am I Alone Here?

by Peter Orner; read by Chris Abernathy

This National Book Critics Circle Award winner is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). Learn More

Always Young and Restless

by Melody Thomas Scott & Dana L. Davis; read by Melody Thomas Scott & Elizabeth Scott

The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career. Learn More

Always Crashing in the Same Car

by Matthew Specktor; read by Matthew Specktor

Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. Learn More

All You Can Ever Know

by Nicole Chung; read by Janet Song

2019 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist
Indie Next List
NPR Best of 2018
Library Journal Best Book 2018
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award

What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Learn More

All They Will Call You

by Tim Z. Hernandez; read by Tim Z. Hernandez

Combining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind Woody Guthrie's legendary song "Deportee." Learn More

All These Things That I've Done

by Matt Pinfield and Mitchell Cohen; read by Mike Chamberlain

"The most trusted opinion in rock music" (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan's memoir, a chronicle of the songs and artists that inspired his improbable career alongside some of the all-time greats, from The Beatles to KISS to U2 to The Killers. Learn More

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