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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  • Running with Scissors Audiobook By Augusten Burroughs cover art

    • Running with Scissors

    • A Memoir
    • By: Augusten Burroughs
    • Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 2,143 ratings
    • A Bizarre Childhood
    • In this darkly funny, controversial memoir, Augusten Burroughs’s mother sent him away to live with her bizarre psychiatrist. At just twelve years old, he learned to survive an unconventional life with no rules, where out-of-use electroshock machines served as toys.

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  • The Rules Do Not Apply Audiobook By Ariel Levy cover art

    • The Rules Do Not Apply

    • A Memoir
    • By: Ariel Levy
    • Narrated by: Ariel Levy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 817 ratings
    • A Deeply Human Story
    • With raw, complicated candor, the journalist tells her deeply human story about having an affair, separating from her alcoholic wife, and experiencing a miscarriage that left her in the depths of grief.

    $13.50 or free with 30-day trial

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  • The Fact of a Body Audiobook By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich cover art

    • The Fact of a Body

    • A Murder and a Memoir
    • By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
    • Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 902 ratings
    • Making Sense of Personal Trauma
    • In 1992, a six-year-old boy was murdered in Louisiana. Years later, law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich tries to understand the convicted murderer’s mind in order to make sense of a personal trauma from her own childhood.

    $20.24 or free with 30-day trial

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  • Angela's Ashes Audiobook By Frank McCourt cover art

    • Angela's Ashes

    • By: Frank McCourt
    • Narrated by: Frank McCourt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 10,034 ratings
    • Irish in Brooklyn
    • In this classic immigrant memoir, Frank McCourt recalls growing up Irish in the slums of Depression-era Brooklyn. His father Malachy was an alcoholic and his mother Angela never had money to feed the family, but his father could always be counted on for a good story.

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

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  • The Sound of Gravel Audiobook By Ruth Wariner cover art

    • The Sound of Gravel

    • A Memoir
    • By: Ruth Wariner
    • Narrated by: Ruth Wariner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4,974 ratings
    • Doubting Her Childhood Beliefs
    • Ruth Wariner grew up in a polygamous cult in Mexico in a family of 42 children that preached women could enter heaven only through polygamous marriages and having as many children as possible. As she became aware of the larger world, she began to doubt these beliefs.

    $14.99 or free with 30-day trial

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  • The Cook Up Audiobook By D. Watkins cover art

    • The Cook Up

    • A Crack Rock Memoir
    • By: D. Watkins
    • Narrated by: D. Watkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 127 ratings
    • Taking Over the Family Business
    • An insider talks about coming up in the Baltimore drug trade. Accepted to Georgetown University and certain he would escape a life of drugs and violence, everything changed when his brother was shot and he took over the family’s crack empire.

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