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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  • A Long Way Gone Audiobook By Ishmael Beah cover art

    • A Long Way Gone

    • Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    • By: Ishmael Beah
    • Narrated by: Ishmael Beah
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 2,076 ratings
    • A Former Child Soldier
    • Once a child soldier in a war-torn country, Ishmael Beah shares his haunting first-person account of being picked up by a government army and trained to be a killer at just 13 years old, and how he eventually escaped that hell.

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  • Between the World and Me Audiobook By Ta-Nehisi Coates cover art

    • Between the World and Me

    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 31,497 ratings
    • A Letter to His Son
    • In a series of essays framed as a letter to his black son, Ta-Nehisi Coates weaves together personal stories and historical events to confront the brutal reality of race in America and all the black bodies it has cost.

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  • Being Jazz Audiobook By Jazz Jennings cover art

    • Being Jazz

    • My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
    • By: Jazz Jennings
    • Narrated by: Jazz Jennings
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 351 ratings
    • A Teen Activist
    • The teen activist shares how she discovered she was transgender at a young age and what life has been like in the public eye since her famous interview with Barbara Walters. You’ll love how she handles tough topics with insight, sensitivity, and strength.

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  • When We Rise Audiobook By Cleve Jones cover art

    • When We Rise

    • My Life in the Movement
    • By: Cleve Jones
    • Narrated by: Cleve Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 338 ratings
    • The Fight Against AIDS
    • As a gay man born in 1954, Cleve Jones grew up wondering if there were others like himself. Drawn to the progressive freedom of San Francisco, he worked alongside Harvey Milk as an activist in the gay movement and in the fight against AIDS.

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  • Redefining Realness Audiobook By Janet Mock cover art

    • Redefining Realness

    • My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
    • By: Janet Mock
    • Narrated by: Janet Mock
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 1,586 ratings
    • Finding Strength Through Adversity
    • In this candid and beautiful memoir by a pop culture icon, Janet Mock finds the strength to survive her tough childhood in Hawaii and come out as a transgender woman after years of going stealth.

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  • The Other Wes Moore Audiobook By Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley cover art

    • The Other Wes Moore

    • One Name, Two Fates
    • By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 3,351 ratings
    • One Name, Two Lives
    • Two kids with the same name lived in the same city. One became a Rhodes scholar, the other became a convicted murderer. Haunted by the coincidence, Wes Moore the scholar wrote a letter to the other Wes, and found out just how similar their lives could have been.

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  • Reading Lolita in Tehran Audiobook By Azar Nafisi cover art

    • Reading Lolita in Tehran

    • A Memoir in Books
    • By: Azar Nafisi
    • Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 488 ratings
    • Risking Everything for Literature
    • For two years, Azar Nafisi met secretly with a group of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran to read forbidden Western classics. In the midst of state sponsored censorship and arbitrary raids, they risked everything for literature.

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  • Binge Audiobook By Tyler Oakley cover art

    • Binge

    • By: Tyler Oakley
    • Narrated by: Tyler Oakley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 6,058 ratings
    • A YouTube Sensation
    • With his signature silly charm, the YouTube sensation and social rights advocate discusses his slow rise to stardom after years of struggling with eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, abusive relationships, and coming out as gay to a religious parent.

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  • Look Me in the Eye Audiobook By John Elder Robison cover art

    • Look Me in the Eye

    • My Life with Asperger's
    • By: John Elder Robison
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 1,463 ratings
    • A Life With Asperger's
    • John Elder Robison was labeled a “social deviant” with odd habits as a child. Taking to electronics, he started creating fire-breathing guitars for KISS. It wasn’t until he was 40 that a therapist told him he had Asperger’s syndrome and the pieces finally fell into place.

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  • The Kid Audiobook By Dan Savage cover art

    • The Kid

    • By: Dan Savage
    • Narrated by: Dan Savage
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 507 ratings
    • An Open Adoption
    • The controversial sex columnist and founder of the It Gets Better Project talks frankly about navigating an open adoption with his then boyfriend as a gay couple living in Seattle in the '90s.

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  • Hillbilly Elegy Audiobook By J. D. Vance cover art

    • Hillbilly Elegy

    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 63,432 ratings
    • The Disintegration of the American Dream
    • The former Marine and Yale Law School alum discusses his childhood in a poor Appalachian town. Considering class, culture, and the hope of upward mobility, he explores the disintegration of the American dream for this deeply impoverished region of the country.

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  • Shrill Audiobook By Lindy West cover art

    • Shrill

    • Notes from a Loud Woman
    • By: Lindy West
    • Narrated by: Lindy West
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 5,103 ratings
    • Raising Her Megaphone for Women
    • The humorist and former band nerd raises her megaphone for women everywhere who want to be heard, discussing everything from the fat positive movement to how she became the accidental poster child for battling Internet trolls.

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