Personal Memoirs

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Kai Bird; read by Joe Caron

A Daily Beast “Best Book” Pick

This is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s vivid memoir of a childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia, and a personal account of three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East. Learn More

Crossings

by Jon Kerstetter; read by Paul Woodson

As a medic and officer in Iraq, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives—to heal and to kill. In Crossings, he beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within. Learn More

Dance or Die

by Ahmad Joudeh; read by Neil Shah

A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. Learn More

The Deadly Path

by Peter J. Forcelli and Keelin MacGregor; read by Todd McLaren

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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

Dear Mom and Dad

by Patti Davis; read by Emily Sutton-Smith

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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

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

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

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

Dirtbag, Massachusetts

by Isaac Fitzgerald; read by Isaac Fitzgerald

NAIBA Winner
NEIBA Winner
Indie 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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