Best Audiobooks Read By Celebrities - April 2024

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

"Comedian Trevor Noah's stories of growing up in South Africa are vivid, sometimes harrowing, and often laugh-out-loud funny. The bonus of audio is that listeners get to hear Noah tell these stories in his South African-accented English, as well as hear him speak snippets of various other South African languages.... Noah's narration offers insights and intimacy, and as he gives voice to his mother, his friends, and his younger self, listeners are invited in to glimpse his world. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (AudioFile magazine) Highest-rated new book of 2016 by Audible customers Winner... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01IW9TM5O
• ASIN: B01IW9TM5O
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Audible Studios

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

This program is read by the author. A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery. "This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud.... My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse." (Russell Brand) With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his 14 years of recovery. Brand ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074MGFBRW
• ASIN: B074MGFBRW
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
• ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
• Manufacturer: Crown

Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me

Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times best-selling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success. Fear is holding you back. It's time to turn the tables and channel your fears to actually fuel your success. Being "shook" is more than a rap lyric for Charlamagne; it's his mission to overcome. While it may seem like he is ahead of the game and should have nothing to worry about, he is still plagued by anxieties - fear of being weak; fear of being a bad dad; fe... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CVKDF89
• ASIN: B07CVKDF89
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers. Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius' life and... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00UVY52JO
• ASIN: B00UVY52JO
• Manufacturer: HarperAudio

The Last Black Unicorn

Best Spoken Word Grammy Award nominee!  From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears.  Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system and certainly not at the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074VG263V
• ASIN: B074VG263V
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller. It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06VX4GGFT
• ASIN: B06VX4GGFT
• Brand: Audible Studios
• Manufacturer: Audible Studios

Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

Charlamagne Tha God - the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pissing People Off", cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, and "hip-hop's Howard Stern" - shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing one's truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness. In his new book, Charlamagne Tha God presents his comic, often controversial, and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. Beginning with his journey from the small town of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, to his headline grabbing interviews with celebrities like Justin Biebe... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06WWKYJLT
• ASIN: B06WWKYJLT
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

In the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union - a 44-year-old actress who launc... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0742MGR31
• ASIN: B0742MGR31
• Brand: Harper Audio
• Manufacturer: HarperAudio

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business name... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079WVJZCH
• ASIN: B079WVJZCH
• Manufacturer: Hachette Books

Fail Until You Don't: Fight. Grind. Repeat.

The number one New York Times best-selling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program The Bobby Bones Show, comedian, and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons and wins.   Bobby Bones is the youngest inductee ever into the National Radio Hall of Fame, alongside legends Dick Clark, Larry King, and Howard Stern. As "the most powerful man in country music" (Forbes), he has reached the peak of his profession and achieved his childhood dreams. Each weekday morn... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BZ1FL7C
• ASIN: B07BZ1FL7C
• Manufacturer: HarperAudio

The Magnolia Story

Are you ready to see your fixer-upper? These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticipation, their legions of fans continue to multiply and ask a different series of questions, like: Who are these people? What's the secret to their success? And is Chip actually that funny in real life? By renovating homes in Waco, Texas, and changing lives in such a winsome and engaging way, Chip and Joanna have become more than just the stars of Fixer Upper; they have become A... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01DFBXA8O
• ASIN: B01DFBXA8O
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Tiger Woods

Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and 11-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods - sweeping in scope and packed with groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes details of the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of an American icon. In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life - married to a Swedish beauty and the father o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079K59TPT
• ASIN: B079K59TPT
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History

At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.  The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress had agreed to star in a random play, and a basement-dwelling scenic carpenter had said he would assay a supporting role in the selfsame pageant. At the first rehearsal, she surveyed her fellow cast members, as one does, determining if any of the men might qualify to provide her with a satisfying fling.... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DKHFDT3
• ASIN: B07DKHFDT3
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

I Can Read Level 1: The Berenstain Bears' New Kitten Book and CD (Audiobook)

In a plastic hanging storage bag (34

• UPC: 15907127

Celebrity Chekhov - Audiobook

New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or

• UPC: 863868067
• Rating: 5.0

Classics Read by Celebrities: A Child's Day Out (Audiobook)

Children will enjoy hearing Betty White, the popular television personality, narrate these seven stories for a whole week of adventures. The stories in this collection will take children on seven enjoyably entertaining outings with the

• UPC: 14640161

Death of a Celebrity - Audiobook

Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills ... until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed

• UPC: 968594199
• Rating: 3.667

The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons (Audiobook)

Jeremy Irons is doing a special event at 92nd Street Y to celebrate 75th anniversary of the publication of the "Four Quartets." Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry

• UPC: 815226673
• Rating: 5.0

To Be Read at Dusk - Audiobook

To Be Read at Dusk is one of Dickens better ghost/phantasm stories complete with disappearances, people lost forever through other worldly influences or death. A story within a story towards by couriers, go betweens in

• UPC: 295235921
• Rating: 4.0

Guys Read: Boys Will Be Boys - Audiobook

A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon

• UPC: 159917325
• Rating: 3.429

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Audiobook

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was

• UPC: 502076813
• Rating: 3.909

Guys Read: True Stories - Audiobook

Visiting the dentist—in ancient EgyptSpending a night in the jungle—with giant tarantulasWrestling with a grizzly bear—and living to tell the taleThe fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that

• UPC: 793606164
• Rating: 4.0

Pete the Cat's Super Cool Reading Collection - Audiobook

Pete the Cat is back in five groovy I Can Read adventures! Beginning readers will love these cool stories about everyone's favorite cat—now all together in one collectible box!This set includes:Pete the Cat: Too Cool

• UPC: 902501747
• Rating: 3.0