A Memoir

By: Tara Westover / Narrated By: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Big Sis and I differed on this, but hey! listen to meeeeee: Devastatingly fanTAStic!!!

The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Written and Narrated By: Alan Paul, Andy Aledort / Epilogue: Jimmie Vaughan

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Memories of a WonderMan… and some pretty goshdanged Ugly Sobs as well

A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

By: Ben MacIntyre / Narrated By: John Lee

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

A smarmy, schmoozy, amoral… Hero?!? This is so entertaining as To DIE For!!!

A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances

By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!

The Madness of American Incarceration

Written and Narrated By: Christine Montross

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

A most DEFinite slug to the gut—with the tiiiiiniest of glimmers of Hope at the end. And I DO mean TINY

On Vision Lost and Found

Written and Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

NOT what I was expecting; and that’s a GOOD thing!

A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

By: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary / Narrated By: Ruth Coker Burks

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Moving, heartfelt, emotionally evocative, and I could go on. Let’s leave it at simply stunning.

Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying

By: Joe Hammond / Narrated By: Russell Tovey

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Well-written, well-narrated. BeYONd heartbreaking, yet so very loving

By: Paul Brickhill / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

You KNOW how it ends, but it’s STILL so gosh darned mesmerizing!!!

My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski / Narrated By: Erin Moon

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Oh a mighty HUZZAH for Moms and Animals!

The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

By: Luke Harding / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Enlightened the first Listen morphs into, well, stunned for the second… Do give this a Listen

Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell / Narrated By: Daisy Donovan

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Beautifully written, hauntingly touching; just absolutely stunning…

Pioneer in Racial Advancement

By: John M. Carroll / Narrated By: JD Jackson

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

The man’s story is sooo good, sooo inspiring…!

A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

By: Rodney Stotts, Kate Pipkin - contributor / Narrated By: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Listen to the Universe; Lean into the Dream…!

How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place

By: David Sheff / Narrated By: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Listened to it twice cuz once, quite simply, was NOT enough.

Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin / Narrated By: Karen Chilton

Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins

Okay, this jumps around ALL OVER THE PLACE, but boy is it awesome!!!

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

ZOUNDS!!!!!!

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle / Narrated By: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Oh gosh, went into this with loooow expectations but hopeful…? Finished oh soooo enchanted!!!

(Abridged)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!

The True Story of How One Amazing Dog Changed His Owner's Life

By: John Tovey, Veronica Clark / Narrated by: Philip Ormond

Length: 7 hrs and 39 min

Went in worried about non-Brit narrator, but dang! the story just carried the day and made this magNIficent!

The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Written and Narrated By: Gregory Boyle

Length: 10 hrs

I prefer to say “Gosh”, but here? I HAVE to say it: Thank God for Gregory Boyle!

The Magic and Madness of a Life for the Birds

Written and Narrated By: Eric Dempsey

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Yeh yeh yeh—like watching paint dry… BUT if you’re NUTTY about birds? AWESOME!!!

The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us About Hope and Kindness

By: Caleb Smith / Narrated By: Michael Gallagher, Caleb Smith

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

AbsoLUTEly ASTOUNDING…!

By: Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon (aka Nadia May, Donada Peters)

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

MAGNIFICENT!!!

By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!

Memory, My Mother, and Me

By: Cathie Borrie / Narrated By: Jill Tucker, Cathie Borrie

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Sometimes lovely, sometimes heartbreaking—Bits and pieces strung together; it’s Life in all its desperate and gorgeous glory…

Tales from a Sex Pistol

Written and Narrated By: Steve Jones

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Honest, soooo honest, totally honest, BRUTALLY honest… LOVED it…

Life Among the Emperors

Written and Narrated By: Lindsay McCrae

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Okay okay writing’s not the best okay! -BUT- It has freaking penguins!!!

The One

Series: The One collection

Written and Narrated By: Jess Walter

Length: 49 mins

Can you really pack that much into just 49 minutes? …Yesssss…!!!

Memories of World War II

Written and Narrated By: Lois Lowry

Length: 38 mins

So brief, so touching—just luminous