Personal Memoirs
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My Brothers' Keeper
by Gloria Reuben; read by Gloria Reuben
My Brothers' Keeper carries the listener through a deeply personal and intimate journey, as Gloria Reuben explores her love of the life she shared with her brothers, as well as the myriad of emotions and experiences after their sudden deaths. Learn More
My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas Gandhi; read by Frederick Davidson
This work is Gandhi’s autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times. Learn More
My West Side Story
by George Chakiris, Lindsay Harrison, Rita Moreno; read by George Chakiris, George Newbern
George Chakiris presents his must-listen memoir, My West Side Story. Learn More
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 Greater Love
by Mother Teresa; read by Lorna Raver and Dan Woren
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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
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