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Best Biography and Memoir Audiobooks

Our editorial panel includes Julia Eccleshare MBE, Maxim Jakubowski and more

The short answer

The one to start with
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir — read by Beth Moore, 9 hrs 25 mins
The longest listen here
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush — 25 hrs 10 mins
Typical length
About 8 hrs 42 mins across the 48 on this page
Most-recorded narrator
Sue Anderson — 10 well-rated biography & memoir titles

We hold 33,393 biography & memoir audiobooks. 908 of them carry at least 20 listener ratings, and these are the 48 rated highest — 48 of them with the narrator named, and the running time on every one.

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

Beth Moore (Author), Beth Moore (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 25 mins

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Nadeems Journey

Sherine Anniruth (Author), Kitty Jay (Narrator)

Audiobook · 2 hrs 18 mins

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My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee (Author), Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Cliff Burnstein (Narrator)

Audiobook · 17 hrs 10 mins

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The Third Door: The Mindset of Success

Alex Banayan (Author), Alex Banayan (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 42 mins

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Red Notice

Bill Browder (Author), Adam Grupper (Narrator)

Audiobook · 14 hrs 15 mins

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This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir

Zarna Garg (Author), Zarna Garg (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 15 mins

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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Emma Carey (Author), Emma Carey (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 35 mins

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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci (Author), Anthony Fauci (Narrator)

Audiobook · 19 hrs 12 mins

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Hope, Grace & Faith

Leah Messer (Author), Leah Messer (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 46 mins

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Guy Martin: My Autobiography

Guy Martin (Author), Dean Williamson (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 34 mins

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The Trading Game: The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller

Gary Stevenson (Author), Gary Stevenson (Narrator)

Audiobook · 12 hrs 40 mins

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Walk Through Fire: A memoir of love, loss, and triumph

Sheila Johnson (Author), Sheila Johnson (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 42 mins

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MOX

Jon Moxley (Author), Jon Moxley (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 6 mins

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In Real Life

Joey Graceffa (Author), Joey Graceffa (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 29 mins

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Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!

Neil Peart (Author), Paul Hecht (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 27 mins

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Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

Sara Bareilles (Author), Sara Bareilles (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 52 mins

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy (Author), Jennette McCurdy (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 26 mins

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Bossypants

Tina Fey (Author), Tina Fey (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 30 mins

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The Last Black Unicorn

Tiffany Haddish (Author), Tiffany Haddish (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 31 mins

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight (Author), Norbert Leo Butz (Narrator)

Audiobook · 13 hrs 21 mins

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Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer (Author), Philip Franklin (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs

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Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Author), Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 16 mins

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 35 mins

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Educated: The international bestselling memoir

Tara Westover (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

Audiobook · 12 hrs 10 mins

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The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

Joseph Marshall (Author), Joseph Marshall (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 59 mins

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Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen (Author), Bruce Springsteen (Narrator)

Audiobook · 18 hrs 11 mins

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Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 30 mins

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The voices of Biography & Memoir

The narrators with the most well-rated biography & memoir audiobooks in our catalogue. Every one has a page listing their work.

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Every corner of biography & memoir, with the full catalogue behind each one.

How we chose these

No page of ours should call a book one of the best because one person gave it five stars. Every title here had to clear the same bar:

  • At least 20 listener ratings, then ranked by rating and then by how many people gave it.
  • Narrated by a person. Machine-narrated recordings are excluded — one synthetic voice alone is credited on 5,582 audiobooks in our catalogue.
  • In English. Around a third of the wider catalogue is recorded in another language and says so in its own title; those are not on this page.

Stock, prices and samples come from Audiobooks.com. Running times are theirs too, and we publish them only where the stored figure is credible.

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