Biography * Memoir: Women & Persons of Color

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

It's What You Do Next

by Megan Barry; read by Megan Barry

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November

A must-listen memoir from Megan Barry, the first female mayor of Nashville. Learn More

Israel's Black Panthers

by Asaf Elia-Shalev; read by Tova Katz

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November

The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Learn More

Irena's Gift

by Karen Kirsten; read by Karen Kirsten

NEW! Now Available

Weaving mystery, history, and memoir, Irena's Gift is the captivating account of one woman's personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family's secret war-torn history. Learn More

Inexplicably Me

by Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter; read by Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter

A hilariously moving and inspirational memoir of a girl with two gay dads, navigating her way through life with joy, love, gratitude, and an excellent sense of humor. Learn More

In the Dream House

by Carmen Maria Machado; read by Carmen Maria Machado

Lambda Literary Award Winner

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. Learn More

In the Country of Women

by Susan Straight; read by Donna Postel

In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. Learn More

I Live a Life Like Yours

by Jan Grue; read by Graham Halstead

A brilliantly rendered essayistic autobiography from an award-winning Norwegian author about life in a vulnerable body. Learn More

How to Treat People

by Molly Case; read by Henrietta Meire

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse. Learn More

How to Begin When Your World Is Ending

by Molly Phinney Baskette; read by Molly Phinney Baskette

Moving, witty, and probing, Molly Baskette's practical and spiritual perspective will appeal to readers of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Kate Bowler's Everything Happens for a Reason. Learn More

How to Be a Good Creature

by Sy Montgomery; read by Sy Montgomery

AudioFile Earphones Winner

National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir. Learn More

Housewife Assassin

by Geri Spieler; read by Rosemary Benson

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin. Learn More

The House of Erzulie

by Kirsten Imani Kasai; read by Adenrele Ojo, Ron Butler

The House of Erzulie tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Learn More

Her: A Memoir

Christa Parravani; read by the author

Cosmopolitan Best Books of the Year Pick
A Library Journal Best of the Year Selection

In this haunting memoir of identity and love, photographer Parravani deconstructs the intense bonds between identical twins, as she struggles with the trauma of her charismatic sister’s self-destruction, and an unexpectedly rising tide of similar self-destruction in herself. Learn More

Healing Wounds

by Diane Carlson Evans with Bob Welch; foreword by Joseph Galloway; read by Janet Metzger

What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question—and the answer was a heavy one. Learn More

He Had It Coming

by Kori Rumore & Marianne Mather; read by Tanya Eby

Beulah Annan. Belva Gaertner. Kitty Malm. Sabella Nitti. These are the real women of Chicago. Learn More

Half the Sky

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; read by Cassandra Campbell

An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
Winner-Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year
A New York Times Bestseller!

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“Women hold up half the sky”—Chinese proverb

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as your guide, undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances—and an equally extraordinary group that have triumphed. Learn More

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

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

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

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