Biography • Memoir
Share in the childhood tales of A Girl Named Zippy. Hear Kenneth Branagh read Samuel Pepys' exuberant 17th-century diary. Be transformed by the extraordinary women of Half the Sky. You'll find these and other remarkable life stories under biography and memoir.
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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
Report from Engine Co. 82
Dennis Smith; read by Lloyd James
Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Learn More
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
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey; read by Oliver Wyman
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky. Learn More
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Alan Cutler; read by Grover Gardner
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Learn More
American Sucker
David Denby; read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Learn More
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood; read by Peter Johnson
Gordon S. Wood, a leading historian of the revolutionary era, gives a convincing reappraisal of Benjamin Franklin and his remarkable life. 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
The Know-It-All
A.J. Jacobs; read by Geoffrey Cantor
A hilarious, intelligent-trivia-packed story from a man who read the entire Encylopedia Britannica. Learn More
The Journey of Crazy Horse
Joseph Marshall III; read by Joseph Marshall III
The Journey of Crazy Horse is a unique opportunity to hear legends of a great man as they have told for generations—and rarely shared outside the Native American community. Learn More
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