Category Archives: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Audiobook: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil

Audiobook: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s Old Christmas tells of an American’s travels through England during the Christmas season.

Audiobook: Through the Magic Door

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which

Audiobook: Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton’s Ambition

Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton’s Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a

Audiobook: First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870

Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first

Audiobook: My Days and Dreams

Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals

Audiobook: California Coast Trails

In 1911, decades before California’s coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles

Audiobook: Backwoods of Canada

The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of

Audiobook: Cruise of the Snark

The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London’s 1907-1909

Audiobook: Loss of the S. S. Titanic

This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that

Audiobook: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave

Audiobook: Father and Son

Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he

Audiobook: John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his

Audiobook: Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the “westering

Audiobook: Waterbiography

Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell

Audiobook: Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary

Audiobook: Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up

Audiobook: Petit Nord

A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding

Audiobook: Diary from Dixie

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate

Audiobook: Gold Hunter’s Experience

“Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago,

Audiobook: Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across

Audiobook: Long Ago

Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by

Audiobook: In Galilee

Thornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá’í Faith of Occidental

Audiobook: Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner

The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare.

Audiobook: Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840

Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of

Audiobook: Tosa Diary

Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he

Audiobook: Autobiography of George Dewey

Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish

Audiobook: Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush

Audiobook: Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave

This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780

Audiobook: Why Crime Does Not Pay

The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who