This year’s
Memoirs are a wonderful mixture of triumph and success; of determination to
survive loss and disease; and to understand what happens in life, good and bad.
Links to the 2017 Best AudioBook memoirs are below.
Before you peruse
the list, consider why you might listen to a memoir. In the telling of one’s
life, the memoirist tells his life stories, of her hopes and dreams, of tactics
for survival against all odds. Memoirs are often dramatic and dynamic, a glimpse into the most intimate
and passionate periods of a person’s life. With each memoir, we learn a little
more about ourselves, good and bad.
Maybe you prefer
biography to memoir. Maybe you ask, “what’s the difference?” To me, biography
is an external view of a person’s life along with lots of explanations and
examples of why and how the subject reacted and lived in their time. Memoir is
an internal view, a personal perspective that can provide a model for your own
experiences, trials, and struggles.
The thirteen
titles below are a wonderful mix of life stories that will delight and charm,
will touch you deep in the soul, and affect your own lives. I hope you find a role
model, an author who will help you shape your own life stories, values, and
internal strengths.
AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE
by Al Franken, read by Al Franken
THE BRIGHT HOUR by Nina Riggs, read by Cassandra Campbell, Kirby
Heyborne
CHASING SPACE by Leland Melvin, read by Ron Butler
DEATH NEED NOT BE FATAL by
Malachy McCourt, Brian McDonald, read by Malachy McCourt
HUNGER by Roxane Gay, read by Roxane Gay
LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN by John M. Perkins, Shane Claiborne [Foreword],
read by Calvin Robinson, Shane Claiborne
LOGICAL FAMILY by Armistead Maupin, read by Armistead Maupin
MY LIFE, MY LOVE, MY LEGACY by Coretta Scott King, Barbara Reynolds,
read by Phylicia Rashad, January LaVoy
SEVEN by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack,
Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, Susan
Yankowitz, read by Shannon Holt, Jossara Jinaro, Alex Kingston, Emily Kuroda,
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, Annet Mahendru, Sarah Shahi
THEFT BY FINDING by David Sedaris, read by David Sedaris
VACATIONLAND by John Hodgman, read by John Hodgman
WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary Rodham Clinton, read by Hillary Rodham
Clinton
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME by Sherman Alexie, read by Sherman
Alexie
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