Personal Memoirs
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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
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
Through the Children's Gate
Adam Gopnik; read by Adam Gopnik
By turns elegant and exultant, jubilant and poignant, Through the Children's Gate is a loving portrait of a family and their city. Learn More
There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say
Paula Poundstone; read by Paula Poundstone
There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant To Say is self-awareness and honesty at its most hilarious. Learn More
Somehow Form a Family
Tony Earley; read by Tony Earley
In Somehow Form a Family, Earley writes about finding a place in a world without losing sight of where you came from. 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
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
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
Black Virgin Mountain
Larry Heinemann; read by Larry Heinemann
An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Learn More
Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz with Dori Jones Yang; read by Eric Conger
In Pour Your Heart Into It, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz shares the passion, values, and inspiration that drive this fascinating company. Learn More
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel ben Izzy; read by Joel ben Izzy
This true tale from storyteller Joel ben Izzy weaves together Izzy's own life story with stories he is known for and that he has collected in his travels. It’s a tale of listening, loving, learning, and letting go. Learn More
Russell Rules
Bill Russell with David Falkner; read by Rif Hutton
More than any other sports figure of the modern era, Bill Russell combined sheer athletic dominance with a depth of character that truly set him apart, both on and off the basketball court. 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
Work Hard. Be Nice.
Jay Mathews; read by J. Paul Boehmer
Upton Sinclair Award Winner for Outstanding Book in Education
When teachers Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin first created KIPP (the Knowledge Is Power Program) in Houston, little did they know it would grow to sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia, and that it would change thousands of kids’ lives—and possibly the U.S. approach to education. Award-winning education reporter Jay Mathews tells their story. Learn More
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen; read by Hillary Huber
Written with wry humor and huge personality—and tackling faith, love, family, and aging—Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead. Learn More
Hard Work
Roy Williams with Tim Crothers; foreword by John Grisham; read by Alan Winter
How determination took Coach Williams from an impoverished home in the mountains of North Carolina to the very pinnacle of coaching success, culminating in the 2009 NCAA National Championship (his second in five years). An inspirational story for anyone willing to commit themselves to their dreams. Learn More
Christopher and His Kind
Christopher Isherwood; read by James Clamp
An engrossing look into the literary, social, and political life of this literary icon during Isherwood’s formative Berlin years (1929-1939). Learn More
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
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff; read by Oliver Wyman
Heralded instantly upon publication by the critics, This Boy’s Life has come to be universally recognized as a true modern classic of autobiography. Learn More
Reading My Father
Alexandra Styron; read by the author
William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Learn More
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