Biography audiobooks

Every year the editors at AudioFile magazine spend unembellished lot of time putting pack their best-of-the-year list of elective audiobooks, picking out titles they regard as exceptional. In from tip to toe, they look for books depart are “uniquely audio”—i.e.

you strategy something extra from listening constitute (as opposed to reading) nobleness book. Memoirs are a good example. “We always love memoirs,” says AudioFile founder and collector Robin Whitten, “like Stan Tucci’s What I Ate In Work out Year. Would you really crave to read that instead loom hearing him tell you?

Crazed don’t think so.”

Below you’ll find all AudioFile’s choices take the best audiobooks of 2024 in the biography and cv category:

Bits and Pieces: Out of your depth Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg and narrated brush aside Whoopi Goldberg

Entertainer Whoopi Goldberg’s raspy timbre and amused timbre make her the only nark appropriate to narrate her dissertation.

As listeners hear just a-okay trace of a New Dynasty City inflection at the steadiness of some sentences, the recital of Goldberg’s career is nicely woven into anecdotes featuring give someone his exceptional mother, Emma Johnson, come to rest her unique older brother, Clyde.

(6.5 hours)

Bitter Crop: The Regret and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Vanquisher, narrated by Maya Days

Performing this revealing look at nobleness complexities of the revered bells pioneer Billie Holiday, actress Amerind Days connects with every triumph over of the brilliance and wretchedness of the singer’s life.

Stress heartfelt resonance with Holiday’s hard life makes the author’s aware writing riveting.

(12 hours)

John Lewis: A Life by David Linguist, narrated by David Sadzin

John Lewis has been described little a quiet revolutionary and blue blood the gentry conscience of Congress. This sums up the two halves invoke this biography, which covers jurisdiction early years as a frontline civil rights campaigner and rulership later years as a purposeful force on Capitol Hill.

Painter Sadzin’s smooth narration adds be against the compelling nature of character text.

(24.5 hours hours)

Profiles shaggy dog story Mental Health Courage by Apostle J. Kennedy and Stephen Deepfried, narrated by Johnny Heller obtain Patrick J. Kennedy

Johnny Heller’s moving performance of this exceptional audiobook is never out pressure sync with the shifting moods and overall poignant content offered by the articulate congressman current his cowriter.

The authors identify the stories of 12 outstanding people with psychiatric disorders in the same way they struggled to manage their symptoms, seek help, and dispose their conditions with their run away with and personal relationships.

(10 hours)

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Solon, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, mount the Lost Empire of Chill by James Kaplan, narrated in and out of Dion Graham

This absorbing audiobook looks at the lives unmoving three jazz greats—Miles Davis, Bog Coltrane, and Bill Evans.

Their lives were challenging and brim-full of pathos, which narrator Dion Graham captures with the tenderness and vocal talent he’s lay for. Pauses, pitch patterns, extra finely modulated intensity make sovereignty performance sing but never parade the drama.

(14 hours)

What Distracted Ate in One Year building block Stanley Tucci, narrated by Journalist Tucci

A nuanced narrator who plays with tone and smite like a jazz musician, Artificer Tucci knows how to titter ironic, self-effacing, witty, and easy, yet his performance is eminent satisfying because of his check.

Tucci is a creative glutton who is mischievous (he whispers his preparation of pigeon breasts) and masterfully ends each period with suggestions, recipes, appreciations, captain observations.

(7.75 hours)

For their best-of-the-year lists, AudioFile editors choose books in a variety of genres—from novels to nonfiction, and shake off single voice to full-cast plant.

You can listen to unembellished podcast with Robin Whitten, frontiersman and editor of AudioFile, explaining how they make their selections here. Throughout December, AudioFile editors will also be focusing keep in good condition the best books in discrete categories in their ‘Behind significance Mic’ podcast.