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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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
There Is No Me Without You
Melissa Fay Greene; read by Julie Fain Lawrence
The National Book award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa. 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
Halsey's Typhoon
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin; read by Eric Conger
A gripping true account of courage and survival at sea against impossible odds—and one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time. 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
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
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
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
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