Memoirs

The Pursuit of God

by Aiden Wilson Tozer Read by David Leeson 4.8
"As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." This thirst for an intimate relationship with…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War

by Leander Stillwell Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

The Escaping Club

by A. J. Evans Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Up From Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

by Edna Ferber Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.7
Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Mich…

Fighting the Flying Circus

by Eddie Rickenbacker Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Ha…

Roast Beef, Medium

by Edna Ferber Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for …

Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement

by William Bradford Read by David Leeson 4.6
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

by Abner Doubleday Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Brother Lawrence Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.9
The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawren…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by MaryAnn 4.9
The Pilgrim's Progress is a profound Christian allegory that follows the journey of Christian, an everyman character, as he embarks on a que…

Wanted

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Twenty-seven year old Rebecca Meredith feels out of place and unwanted. She has lost her mother, brother, and idolized little sister to the …

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's vivid memoir that transports listeners to the bustling world of the Mississippi River in the years l…

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Laura Caldwell 4.7
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single …

Stepping Heavenward

by Elizabeth Prentiss Read by Theresa L. Downey 4.8
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…

A Diary from Dixie

by Mary Chesnut Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.8
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

The Road

by Jack London Read by Barry Eads 4.6
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

Anabasis

by Xenophon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl…

Chapters from my Autobiography

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.8
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He or…

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