# 12 memoir audiobooks for fall listening > A fall audio list led by Viola Davis, Julia Fox, Margaret Atwood, Shania Twain and other voices worth hearing firsthand. - Title: 12 memoir audiobooks for fall listening · Woman's World - Summary: A fall audio list led by Viola Davis, Julia Fox, Margaret Atwood, Shania Twain and other voices worth hearing firsthand. Memoirs often hit hardest on audio… - Keywords: memoir audiobooks, fall listening, viola davis, julia fox, margaret atwood, hayden panettiere, belle burden, stefan merrill block, amanda lindhout, lisa marie presley, riley keough, shania twain - Source: Woman's World — https://womansworld.com/entertainment/books/12-best-memoir-audiobooks-to-listen-to-this-fall - Author: Carissa Mosness - Published: 2026-09-15T21:03:08+00:00 - Read time: 3 min - Topics: memoir audiobooks, fall listening, viola davis, julia fox, margaret atwood, hayden panettiere, belle burden, stefan merrill block, amanda lindhout, lisa marie presley, riley keough, shania twain ## Why audio wins Memoirs make a strong case for listening because many authors narrate their own lives. The voice adds pauses, laughs and cracks that print cannot carry. > You’re not just reading their words ## Viola Davis, unfiltered Finding Me follows Viola Davis from Central Falls, Rhode Island, to Hollywood respect, while facing poverty, racism and being reduced to her past. > what really happens when the cameras aren’t rolling ## A Grammy-winning listen Davis narrates the memoir herself, and the audio won the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording. > A moving tale went on to win a Grammy ## Julia Fox survives chaos Down the Drain has Julia Fox reading her own story of family volatility, an abusive boyfriend, a psychiatric hospital stay and heroin addiction. > Eventually, she decided to change her life. ## Atwood looks back Book of Lives lets Margaret Atwood trace the life behind The Handmaid’s Tale, her bond with Graeme Gibson and her dry-eyed view of fame. > Margaret Atwood is a wonder of the world. ## Panettiere gets raw This Is Me: A Reckoning moves past Hayden Panettiere’s public image to domestic assault, postpartum depression and private pain behind TV and movie work. > Hayden holds nothing back ## A marriage collapses In Strangers, Belle Burden’s 10-year marriage ends when her husband abruptly leaves. The memoir tracks the identity crisis that follows. > her seemingly stable marriage of 10 years came crashing down ## Burden finds herself The audiobook follows brutal honesty, setbacks and change through Burden’s own narration, making the split both intimate and painful. > heartbreaking and uplifting ## A strange homeschool life Homeschooled begins when Stefan Merrill Block’s mother pulls him from school at 9, saying it is stifling his creativity. > stifling his creativity ## Mother and son unravel As his mother’s behavior grows erratic, Block is dyed blond and forced to crawl around the house. He narrates the unsettling family story himself. > forcing him to crawl around the house ## Amanda Lindhout dreams bigger A House in The Sky starts with Lindhout finding escape in National Geographic, then saving waitress money to travel across Latin America and Asia. > she would visit these beautiful places ## Held for 460 days After becoming a TV reporter, Lindhout is abducted in Somalia in August 2008. Her memoir with Sara Corbett recounts captivity and survival. > Amanda was held captive for 460 days. ## Presley tapes become memoir Lisa Marie Presley asked Riley Keough to help finish her memoir in 2022. After Presley died, Keough shaped the book from her mother’s recordings. > she knew she had to keep her promise ## Inside the Presley family From Here to The Great Unknown covers Graceland, Elvis, marriages and family pain, narrated by Riley Keough with fresh details from Lisa Marie’s tapes. > never-before-heard details about the Presley family ## Stephanie Foo names trauma What My Bones Know begins with Foo outwardly thriving as a radio producer, while panic attacks point doctors toward CPTSD from childhood abuse. > So why is she having panic attacks? ## Healing after abandonment Foo writes and narrates how years of physical and emotional abuse, then parental abandonment, shaped her adult life and her work to heal. > many suffer in silence ## Shania Twain returns From This Moment On gets a new Shania Twain narration and introduction, revisiting poverty, four siblings and her mother’s domestic violence. > she’s re-narrating it with a new introduction ## Two darker final picks Jennette McCurdy’s memoir examines child stardom and control. Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl recounts abuse, trafficking and Jeffrey Epstein. > the dark reality behind her childhood fame ## Key takeaway Memoirs often hit hardest on audio because the author’s own voice can carry the pauses, humor and pain that print can flatten.