I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Audible.

I was driving on the highway in winter, listening to Patti Smith read her award-winning memoir, Just Kids, and I felt like she was right there in the car with me. I repeat: it’s like I was on a road trip with actual punk icon Patti Smith (!). There’s something so intimate and relatable about hearing someone tell you their own story in their own voice, and I’ve been totally hooked on audio memoirs ever since. These 100 unforgettable memoirs are all read by the writers themselves. Did I miss any of your favorites? Tweet me at @Rach_Smalls and let me know what I should listen to next. -- Rachel, Audible Editor
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  • The Light of the World Audiobook By Elizabeth Alexander cover art

    • The Light of the World

    • A Memoir
    • By: Elizabeth Alexander
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • The Gift of Love
    • Following her husband’s sudden death, the poet reflects on the richness of their married life together, caring for their two teenage sons, and the gifts of love, family, art, and community.

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  • You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Audiobook By Sherman Alexie cover art

    • You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

    • A Memoir
    • By: Sherman Alexie
    • Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,810 ratings
    • Loving a Bipolar Parent
    • Sherman Alexie unpacks the trauma of growing up with bipolar and alcoholic parents on an impoverished Indian reservation. Through the pain, he also finds moments to laugh in this extraordinary memoir quilted together by poems and half-truths.

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  • The Possessed Audiobook By Elif Batuman cover art

    • The Possessed

    • Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
    • By: Elif Batuman
    • Narrated by: Elif Batuman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • An Obsession with Russian Books
    • Elif Batuman ventures from her studies at Stanford to investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy’s ancestral estate and record the stories of those who, like her, are obsessed with Russian books.

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  • A House of My Own Audiobook By Sandra Cisneros cover art

    • A House of My Own

    • Stories from My Life
    • By: Sandra Cisneros
    • Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The Search for Home
    • The beloved writer writes about the houses she has lived in — from Chicago neighborhoods to her ancestral home in Mexico — and the elusive house she’s always longed to take root in and truly call her own.

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  • Hole in My Life Audiobook By Jack Gantos cover art

    • Hole in My Life

    • By: Jack Gantos
    • Narrated by: Jack Gantos
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • Young, Broke, and in Prison
    • As a 19-year-old aspiring writer strapped for cash, Jack Gantos sailed a boat loaded with hashish that he would help sell in New York. But he was caught and sentenced to prison, where he finally devoted himself to writing in order to endure the worst experience of his life.

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  • Hunger Audiobook By Roxane Gay cover art

    • Hunger

    • A Memoir of (My) Body
    • By: Roxane Gay
    • Narrated by: Roxane Gay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,594 ratings
    • A Memoir of Body
    • Roxane Gay recounts an act of violence from her youth and how she ate in hopes that making her body big would also make her safe. With raw — sometimes painful — candor, she explores desire, appetite, weight, and self-image.

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  • On Writing Audiobook By Stephen King cover art

    • On Writing

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,255 ratings
    • From Unknown to World Famous
    • The master doesn’t disappoint with this memoir about coming up as a young writer. From his first newspaper job to almost trashing his breakout hit, Carrie, to a near-fatal accident in 1999, this is a thrilling tale about the journey from unknown to world famous.

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  • In Other Words Audiobook By Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translator cover art

    • In Other Words

    • A Memoir
    • By: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translator
    • Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • A Year in Rome
    • Jhumpa Lahiri gave up English to live in Rome and write a journal exclusively in Italian for one year. Here is the fruit of her effort — originally written in Italian, it’s a gorgeous meditation on love, identity, and language.

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  • Priestdaddy Audiobook By Patricia Lockwood cover art

    • Priestdaddy

    • A Memoir
    • By: Patricia Lockwood
    • Narrated by: Patricia Lockwood
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 950 ratings
    • Raised by a Married Catholic Priest
    • The irreverent poet detours into memoir with this look at her eccentric father, who found a loophole to become a married Catholic priest. From lounging in his boxer shorts to his love for action movies and electric guitars, Lockwood explores how he shaped her own identity.

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  • The Argonauts Audiobook By Maggie Nelson cover art

    • The Argonauts

    • By: Maggie Nelson
    • Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418 ratings
    • A Joyful, Unconventional Family
    • Maggie Nelson made waves with this genre-bending memoir about her relationship with genderfluid artist Harry Dodge, her pregnancy, and raising a child in a joyful family that defies the institutions of conventional marriage and parenting.

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  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Audiobook By Jeanette Winterson cover art

    • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    • By: Jeanette Winterson
    • Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
    • In Search of Her Biological Mother
    • Her most famous novel is a semi-biographical story about a young girl adopted by zealous Pentecostal parents. In this memoir, Jeanette Winterson openly discusses her painful past and her search for love, belonging, and — eventually — her biological mother.

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  • Brown Girl Dreaming Audiobook By Jacqueline Woodson cover art

    • Brown Girl Dreaming

    • By: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275 ratings
    • A Childhood Love of Stories
    • Told in verse, Jacqueline Woodson reflects on growing up black in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Even as she struggled to read as a child, her love of stories nurtured her growing awareness of the Civil Rights Movement.

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