March 13, 2024

50 Best Audio Book Biographies in the Past 5 Years

Who doesn’t like a fascinating biography on audio book? We’ve recently added thousands of new audio books to LearnOutLoud.com, including many new biographies. We now feature in our Audio Book Downloads section over 70,000 titles! Please note that we are linking to Audible on Amazon.com for almost all of our audio book downloads. You can browse them all here:

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There have been many bestselling biographies on audio book in the past five years, with bestsellers from both Michelle Obama with her book Becoming, and Barack Obama with his memoir A Promised Land. Additionally, there have been popular biographies from famous people like Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, and Spare by Prince Harry. Arguably, the most celebrated biography of recent has been Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, which was on the The New York Times bestseller list for over 130 weeks.

We have a lot more biographies on our site to choose from. Currently, you can browse:

Over 9,000 Biographies on Audio Book Download on LearnOutLoud.com

Below, we’ll highlight 50 of the best biographies from the past five years in each of our biography subcategories. Hopefully, we’ll tip you off to one you hadn’t heard of or one that you might interested in listening to.

Best Biography Audio Books About Artists:

Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog

Best Biography Audio Books About Business Leaders:

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Sam Walton: Made in America by John Huey
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
Capital Gaines by Chip Gaines

Best Biography Audio Books About Entertainers:

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
The Answer Is: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
In Pieces by Sally Field
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey

Best Biography Audio Books About Everyday People:

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Best Biography Audio Books About Military Figures:

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Grant by Ron Chernow
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by James Mattis
Thank You for My Service by Mat Best
Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson & Matt Eversmann

Best Biography Audio Books About Philosophers:

I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
In My Own Way by Alan Watts
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James S. Romm
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau by Michael Sims
I’ve Been Thinking by Daniel Dennett

Best Biography Audio Books About Political Figures:

A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Spare by Prince Harry
The President and the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmeade
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird
Harriett Tubman: The Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford

Best Biography Audio Books About Religious Figures:

Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master by Sri M.
Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey
River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey by Helen Prejean
Being Ram Dass by Rameshwar Das & Ram Dass
Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo

Best Biography Audio Books About Scientists:

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Edison by Edmund Morris
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie by Lauren Redniss
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow

Learn about a fascinating person from these recent audio book biographies!