Personal Memoirs

Half Broke

by Ginger Gaffney; read by Christa Lewis

Resonant, smart, and beautifully written, Half Broke tears at the heart of what it takes to find wholeness after years of trauma and addiction and offers profound insight on how working with animals can satisfy our universal need for connection. Learn More

Guidebook to Relative Strangers

by Camille T. Dungy; read by Allyson Johnson

2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards

An award winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history. Learn More

Guardian

by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin

A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More

A Grotesque Animal

by Amy Lee Lillard; read by Avery May

A must-listen new book from the author of Dig Me Out. Learn More

Grayson

Lynne Cox; read by Lynne Cox

Seventeen-year-old long distance swimmer Lynne Cox was out training in the cold Pacific one morning when she became aware that an 18-foot baby gray whale was following her, apparently lost and separated from its mother, without whom it would surely die. Something so enormous as a mother whale 50 feet long suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific. . . . Learn More

Graced by Waters

by John Dietsch; foreword by Paul VanDevelder; read by Jim Denison

John Dietsch—fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It—explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss. Learn More

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela

Zelda la Grange; read by Adjoa Andoh; introduction read by the author

A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries. Learn More

The Golden Flea

by Michael Rips; read by Peter Berkrot

An enchanting tale of the search for forgotten treasures at one of the greatest flea markets on earth. Learn More

The Glass Eye

by Jeannie Vanasco; read by Julie McKay

Indie Next List

The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery. Learn More

Girlvert

by Oriana Small; read by Oriana Small

Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From accolades to agony, Girlvert illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension. Contains mature themes. Learn More

A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel; read by Haven Kimmel

Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds her. Learn More

The Girl From Human Street

Roger Cohen; read by Simon Vance

An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family, that assays the impact of memory, displacement, and a pervasive sense of separateness. Learn More

A Ghost in the Throat

by Doireann Ní Ghríof; read by Siobhan McSweeney

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize
A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022
An NPRBest Book of 2021

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's. Learn More

Genealogy of a Murder

by Lisa Belkin; read by Erin Bennett

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer. Learn More

The Garden Against Time

by Olivia Laing; read by Olivia Laing

Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise. Learn More

The Gamesmaster

by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer

Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More

Furnishing Eternity

by David Giffels; read by Eric Michael Summerer

From the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose, a vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots and seeking a father's wisdom through an unusual woodworking project—constructing his own coffin. Learn More

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