Memoirs

Introduction to the Devout Life

by Saint Francis de Sales Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
First published in the early 17th century, it has proven its value as a daily spiritual guide and helpful reference for living an authentic …

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…

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…

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 &…

Over the Top

by Arthur Guy Empey Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His ex…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a…

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 …

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…

Three Times and Out

by Nellie Mcclung Read by DPranitis 4.7
The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen…

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