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Listen with Liz - September 2025

I love nonfiction audiobooks especially memoir and autobiographies. This is a totally random list of titles I listened to in August 2025. Titles are listed in alphabetical order. #IndyPLAdults #IndyPLAudiobooks #audiobooks #GoodListens #ListenWithLiz #memoirs

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16 items

  • All the Beauty in the World

    the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

    Bringley, Patrick,
    An interesting story from Patrick Bringley who spent over 10 years as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bringley shares stories that only someone who has unrestricted access to all the hidden areas of the famous museum.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
  • Bad Friend

    How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

    Smith, Tiffany Watt,
    I listened to this right after The Dry Season and they went together well. Tiffany Watt Smith combines well-researched history of female friendships with her real life experiences. Smith shares both her experiences as a good and bad friend. This…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Macmillan Audio, 2025.
  • A Clean Mess

    A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb

    Jenkins, Tiffany,
    Tiffany Jenkins's first book High Achiever (2019) was one of those nonfiction titles that read like a fiction book. In that book she shares her story of opioid addiction and time in jail. This book she chronicles life after prison where in a matter…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Books on Tape, 2025.
  • Docile

    Memoirs of a Not-so-perfect Asian Girl

    Song, Hyeseung,
    I had read something that said fans of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings (two memoirs I loved) would like this so I very excited to listen to this one. Hyesung Song is the daughter to Korean immigrants and grows up in Texas. Song grows up being…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024.
  • The Dry Season

    A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

    Febos, Melissa,
    Melissa Febos is the author of the bestselling book Girlhood (Listen with Liz - December 2021). In this book she shares her experience of a year without sex. She shares her pleasures, solitude and freedoms she discovers in this year as well as how…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Books on Tape, 2025.
  • Free Ride

    Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life

    Schoenmaker, Noraly,
    Noraly Schoenmaker created Itchy Boots, the YouTube channel which has over two million subscribers. Her motorcycle journeys have taken her all around the world. At a crossroads in her personal life, Schoenmaker quits her job and moves to India. She…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.
  • The Hollow Half

    A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

    Aziza, Sarah,
    This is more than a memoir about Sarah Aziza's near death experience with anorexia. She is the daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees. The book alternates between chapters about her recovery with those about her family's history and…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025Holland : Dreamscape Media, 2025.
  • Kuleana

    A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i

    Goo, Sara Kehaulani,
    Sara Kehaulani Goo is an award-winning journalist. This book is part memoir and part in-depth reporting. Goo has always been intrigued by her family's 90 acres on the east side of Maui which was given to them by King Kamehameha III in 1848. Goo digs…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Macmillan Audio, 2025.
  • Loveable

    A Memoir: One Woman's Path From Good to Free

    Rae, Amber,
    Amber Rae is a bestselling author and inspirational speaker known for her books Choose Wonder Over Worry and The Answers Are Within You. She also created The Feelings Journal, which helps people get in touch with their feelings. This book got…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Macmillan Audio, 2025.
  • The Mailman

    My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

    Grant, Stephen Starring,
    It was March 2020 which was the beginning of the pandemic and Stephen Grant had just been laid off. He was 50 years old and had cancer so needed a job. He saw a listing for a rural mail carrier in Appalachia and found himself in a totally new…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.
  • Murder the Truth

    Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

    Enrich, David,
    My mom read this book and told me she thought I would like it too so I decided to give it a listen. As someone who is married to a working journalist this was a scary and interesting listen. David Enrich is the Finance Editor at The New York Times,…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : HarperAudio, 2025.
  • The Next Day

    Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

    French Gates, Melinda,
    A friend thought I might like this book and she was so right. In fact I liked it so much I sent it to her telling her she might like it forgetting she sent it to me initially. While Melinda French Gates comes from a place of privilege I found her…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Macmillan Audio, 2025.
  • Nice Girls Don't Win

    How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power

    Shallow, Parvati,
    Parvati Shallow won Survivor at 25 years. Despite her fame and fortune she struggled with her past trauma all while being in the public eye. Shallow works hard to change her way of thinking to get out of continuing to make the same mistakes. I did…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Books on Tape, 2025.
  • Ione Skye rose to fame as the dream girl who inspires John Cusack's boombox scene in the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything. Skye shares her story from growing up deserted by her famous dad, folk legend Donovan and how this abandonment affected her…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.
  • Tart

    Misadventures of An Anonymous Chef

    Cheff, Slutty,
    This was a New York Times Best Nonfiction Book of Summer 2025 and a really quick listen. The author quits her safe 9-5 job to enroll in cooking school and pursue the one thing she has always loved: cooking. This is not strictly a food memoir as the…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.
  • Uncommon Favor

    Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned From All Three

    Staley, Dawn,
    You don't need to be a basketball fan to be inspired by Dawn Staley's amazing story. She reads the audio version which made me feel like we were sitting down and she was sharing her story and wisdom with me.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.