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    • A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
    • By: Carole Radziwill
    • Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 1,689 ratings
    • A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a...

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    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 527 ratings
    • Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street...

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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 1,101 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jeannette Walls
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 18,536 ratings
    • THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption...

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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-07
    • Language: English
    • 10,573 ratings
    • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 12,367 ratings
    • A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant...

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    • By: Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Maya Angelou
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 9,891 ratings
    • Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...

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    • A Family Memoir
    • By: Griffin Dunne
    • Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 1,489 ratings
    • The instant New York Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail “Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post "Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.” —Los...

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    • A Memoir of the Craft
    • By: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-00
    • Language: English
    • 15,577 ratings
    • CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF WRITING with fresh testimonials from fellow writers about why they love Stephen King and On Writing—and a few new words on the joy of writing from King himself. *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME* Immensely helpful and illuminating to any...

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    • The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 100 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Will in the World reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe―Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival. In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were...

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Gary Sinise
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 5,737 ratings
    • An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had...

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 9,870 ratings
    • When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 3,346 ratings
    • “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

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    • A Daughter's Memoir
    • By: Molly Jong-Fast
    • Narrated by: Molly Jong-Fast
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 460 ratings
    • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 “With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won’t just want to underline them, you will...

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 3,759 ratings
    • Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris! In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A...

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    • A Memoir of Sorts
    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 124 ratings
    • How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. ‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who...

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    • A Life
    • By: Mark Oppenheimer
    • Narrated by: Molly Ringwald, Mark Oppenheimer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-26
    • Language: English
    • 9 ratings
    • The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics—including Are You There God?...

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    • The Shape of My Early Life
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-05
    • Language: English
    • 3,624 ratings
    • In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 1,994 ratings
    • The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. ""The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles...

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4,586 ratings
    • National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005"Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband...

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