Top Biographies & Memoirs Audiobooks

This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age....

Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock....

The case against Lyndon B. Johnson and his role in Kennedy's assassination has never been sounder....

In Hello, Gorgeous, Mann incisively illuminates the woman before she became the icon and pays tribute to one of the world’s most beloved performers....

William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography....

This epic chronicle by Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) continues with the lives of great Grecians and Romans....

When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history....

If you thought you already knew everything there was to know about the Kennedy assassination, think again....

The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA....

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students....

If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself....

When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

Otto von Bismarck was more than a politician and a leader: he was the single driving force that turned the disparate states of Germany into one cohesive empire....

Genius, artist, monstre sacré, Orson Welles had one of the most brilliant and tempestuous careers in show business....

Like many historical events, the American Revolution is sometimes overlooked, ignored, or minimized by historians due to being shrouded in romantic myth and stubborn stereotypes....

Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130, created this Commission to investigate the assassination...of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States....

One of the most acclaimed and revered Nobel laureates begins to tell us the story of his life....

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

Here is one of the great autobiographies of the English language - exuberant, wonderfully contemporary in spirit, by a man twice as large as life....