Discover the Top 100 Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

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Title: An American Demon

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Jack Grisham

Narrator: Jack Grisham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-14

Publisher: Bad Idea Music

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Depravity, redemption, terror, and spiritual deliverance abound in this physically and psychologically complex memoir from the front man of the pioneer punk band True Sounds of Liberty (TSOL). Spanning the extremes between hard-core punk memoir and handbook for recovery and survival, this narrative documents a youth rebellion that changed the world and offered life lessons rooted in 1980s punk culture. At times unsettling and violent, this book is doused in aggression, rebellion, alcoholism, and drug abuse, culminating in tough lessons of sobriety and absolution. This captivating, dark, and ultimately redemptive life story will fascinate fans of punk and resonate with those who have suffered from addiction issues.

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Title: His Way

Subtitle: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

Author: Kitty Kelley

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 106 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal friends). Fully documented, highly detailed and filled with revealing anecdotes, here is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multi-talented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for more than 50 years.

Critic Reviews:

"The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time." (William Safire, The New York Times)

"A compelling page-turner...Kitty Kelley's book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant." (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)

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Title: Mademoiselle

Subtitle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

Author: Rhonda Garelick

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-14

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 85 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today - and for nearly the last hundred years - we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanels role in the events of the 20th century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined the historical currents around her. Here, with unprecedented detail and ambition - and through fascinating, thoroughly researched portraits of Chanels lovers and friends - Rhonda Garelick shows us the Chanel who conquered the world: a woman who thirsted to create others in her image, who ruthlessly and innovatively borrowed from her famous (and infamous) intimates, who understood the idea of branding and image well ahead of her time, who created "wearable personality". This is Chanel at the nexus of history: a woman of daring, passion, and legendary vision, in a wonderful biography that gives her long-awaited due.

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Title: Paradise Lost

Subtitle: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: David S. Brown

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts of Lake Forest, Princeton, and Hollywood - places that left an indelible mark on his worldview.

In this comprehensive biography, Brown reexamines Fitzgerald's childhood, first loves, and difficult marriage to Zelda Sayre. He looks at Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway, the golden years that culminated with Gatsby, and his increasing alcohol abuse and declining fortunes which coincided with Zelda's institutionalization and the nation's economic collapse. In doing so, he reveals Fitzgerald as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination not suggested by his reputation as "the chronicler of the Jazz Age." Fitzgerald wrote powerfully about change in America, Brown shows, because he saw it as the dominant theme in his own family history and life.

Critic Reviews:

"Carefully researched and a pleasure to read, Brown's persuasive, original account will entice Fitzgerald fans and cultural historians alike." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)

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Title: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Narrator: Jeanette Winterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 392 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Jeanette Wintersons bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is considered one of the most important books in contemporary fiction. Jeanettes adoptive mother loomed over her life until Jeanette finally moved out at sixteen because she was in love with a woman. As Jeanette left behind the strict confines of her youth, her mother asked, Why be happy when you could be normal?

This memoir is the chronicle of a lifes work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser drawer; about growing up in a north England industrial town in the 1960s and 1970s; and about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can guide us when we are lost. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging - for love, identity, and a home.

Critic Reviews:

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her. . . . The fierce, curious, brilliant British writer is winningly candid in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? . . . [Winterson has] such a joy for life and love and language that she quickly becomes her very own one-woman bandone that, luckily for us, keeps playing on." (O, the Oprah Magazine)

"Moving, honest . . . Rich in detail and the history of the northern English town of Accrington, Winterson's narrative allows readers to ponder, along with the author, the importance of feeling wanted and loved." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Raw . . . A highly unusual, scrupulously honest, and endearing memoir." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)

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Title: Dear Theo

Subtitle: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh

Author: Jean Stone, Irving Stone

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 82 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother, Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared.

In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Goghs letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art. Irving Stone has edited the letters of Vincent in such a way as to retain every line of beauty, significance, and importance. It is my humble opinion that Vincent was as great a writer and philosopher, Stone says, as he was a painter.

Critic Reviews:

An extraordinary book and a great one. (

New York Times)

A great book, the greatness of a man in his own words. (

The Nation)

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Title: Letters to a Young Poet

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrator: Soren Filipski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-15

Publisher: Hythloday Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing towards maturity, and how the impulse to artistic creation can and should be a source of abiding and developing happiness even for those who cannot become artists.

Written in Rilke's early, struggling years, Letters to a Young Poet is a work of beauty and urgency. Its discussion of the young soldier's difficulties in finding his identity and vocation, mirrored in Rilke's own life, have resonated with generations of readers for over a century, and it stands as one of the most beloved and widely read sets of letters in the world.

This new translation by Soren Filipski is both accurate and fluid, capturing the intense, rhapsodic energy of Rilke's writing as well as the precision of his ideas. His sensitive narration captures Rilke's emotion and flourish in this brief yet powerful work.

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