Personal Memoirs
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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
Elixir
by Kapka Kassabova; read by Natalie Pela
A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border. Learn More
The Education of a Coroner
by John Bateson; Kirby Heyborne
Complete with poignant anecdotes, The Education of a Coroner provides a firsthand and fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a public servant whose work is dark and mysterious yet necessary for society to function. Learn More
Educating Esmé
Esmé Raji Codell; read by Esmé Raji Codell
Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Learn More
Eating with the Enemy
Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer; read by Traber Burns
The extraordinary story of how a restless restaurant owner from a mobbed-up New Jersey town became an international diplomat to the world’s most isolated nation. Learn More
Dying
by Cory Taylor; read by Larissa Gallagher
Short-listed for the 2017 Stella Prize
Dying: A Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on dying and a wise tribute to life. 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
Down from the Mountain
Bryce Andrews; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. 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
Doing Time Like A Spy
by John Kiriakou; read by Jonathan Yen
Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Learn More
The Dog Who Took Me Up a Mountain
by Rick Crandall; read by Barry Abrams
The uplifting story of two unlikely mountaineers: a man in late middle age and a fearless pint-sized pup who, together, scale Colorado's highest peaks. Learn More
The Dog Says How
Kevin Kling; read by the author
Popular storyteller Kevin Kling weaves scenes of childhood antics and adult absurdities into tales that provoke laughter—and elicit tears Learn More
Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere
by Robert Lopez; read by Lee Osorio
In Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and reclaim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure. Learn More
The Discomfort Zone
Jonathan Franzen; read by Jonathan Franzen
Daring, honest, and written with the comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that marks Franzen's fiction, The Discomfort Zone tells of the formation of one young mind in the crucible of an everyday American family. Learn More
Dirtbag, Massachusetts
by Isaac Fitzgerald; read by Isaac Fitzgerald
NAIBA WinnerNEIBA WinnerIndie Next List A TIME Best Book of the Summer A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Learn More
Dinner with Edward
Isabel Vincent; read by Elise Arsenault
Dinner with Edward is a book about sorrow and joy, love and nourishment, and about how dinner with a friend can, in the words of M. F. K. Fisher, "sustain us against the hungers of the world." Learn More
Devil in the Details
Jennifer Traig; read by Melinda Wade
The struggles and humiliations of adolescence are told in an unflinching, funny, surprisingly universal tale of one good Jewish girl's battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Learn More
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon
Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Learn More
Dear Mom and Dad
by Patti Davis; read by Emily Sutton-Smith
A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents. Learn More
The Deadly Path
by Peter J. Forcelli and Keelin MacGregor; read by Todd McLaren
Pete Forcelli did what members of the US Congress encourage government employees to do: he spoke up when he saw misconduct within the federal government. But choosing to be a whistleblower almost cost Forcelli his job, his possessions, and his reputation as a law enforcement official. Learn More
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