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Autobiography Book Summaries

An Ordinary Man Summary
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina 2007 272 pages
4.19
6k+ ratings
Africa
Biography
Memoir
A Big Little Life Summary
A Big Little Life
A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
by Dean Koontz 2009 288 pages
4.25
11k+ ratings
Animals
Dogs
Memoir
Travels With Myself and Another Summary
Travels With Myself and Another
by Martha Gellhorn 1979 320 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Biography
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela 1994 558 pages
4.35
87k+ ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Adolf Hitler Summary
Adolf Hitler
My Part in His Downfall
by Spike Milligan 1976 144 pages
4.03
8k+ ratings
Humor
Biography
History
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
The Complete and Authoritative Edition
by Mark Twain 2010 736 pages
3.8
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
Bossypants Summary
Bossypants
by Tina Fey 2011 283 pages
3.96
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Life Beyond Measure Summary
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
by Sidney Poitier 2009 308 pages
3.83
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Open Summary
Open
by Andre Agassi 2009 547 pages
4.31
100k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Memoir
Escape Summary
Escape
by Carolyn Jessop 2007 458 pages
3.98
44k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Providence Summary
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
by Daniel Quinn 1995 175 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Memoir
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari 2009 320 pages
4.05
100+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
The Last Lecture Summary
The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
4.26
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie 2010 587 pages
4.11
11k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Losing My Virginity Summary
Losing My Virginity
How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
by Richard Branson 2011 624 pages
3.99
56k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now Summary
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
by Maya Angelou 2011 162 pages
4.29
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
My Losing Season Summary
My Losing Season
by Pat Conroy 2003 416 pages
3.90
10k+ ratings
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith 2009 242 pages
3.90
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
The Audacity of Hope Summary
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama 2006 384 pages
3.83
100k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Letters Summary
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Essays
The Happiest Refugee Summary
The Happiest Refugee
by Anh Do 2010 232 pages
4.24
16k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Gardening for a Lifetime Summary
Gardening for a Lifetime
How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
by Sydney Eddison 2011 208 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Gardening
Nature
Self Help
The Secret Race Summary
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
by Tyler Hamilton 2012 290 pages
4.38
18k+ ratings
Sports
Cycling
Biography
A Freewheelin' Time Summary
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by Suze Rotolo 2009 384 pages
3.82
3k+ ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
Decision Points Summary
Decision Points
by George W. Bush 2010 514 pages
3.81
41k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Liars' Club Summary
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr 2005 352 pages
3.94
69k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Profiler Summary
The Profiler
My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
by Pat Brown 2010 304 pages
3.07
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
On Writing Summary
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King 2000 288 pages
4.34
200k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Ice Summary
Ice
A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
by Ice-T 2011 274 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Biography
Music
Memoir
The Secret Race Summary
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
by Tyler Hamilton 2012 290 pages
4.38
18k+ ratings
Sports
Cycling
Biography
The Glass Castle Summary
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls 2006 288 pages
4.32
1.2M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Orange Is the New Black Summary
Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
by Piper Kerman 2011 327 pages
3.72
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair Summary
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch 2011 241 pages
3.49
7k+ ratings
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
A Gift of Hope Summary
A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
by Danielle Steel 2012 148 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
Romance
Memoir
Social Justice
I Am Malala Summary
I Am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai 2013 328 pages
4.15
500k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Feminism
My Story Summary
My Story
by Elizabeth Smart 2013 320 pages
3.87
44k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Summary
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
by Chris Hadfield 2013 304 pages
4.17
60k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Space
A Street Cat Named Bob Summary
A Street Cat Named Bob
How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
by James Bowen 2012
3.98
56k+ ratings
Animals
Biography
Cats
It's Been a Good Life Summary
It's Been a Good Life
by Isaac Asimov 2002 310 pages
4.16
100+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Alex Ferguson Summary
Alex Ferguson
My Autobiography
by Alex Ferguson 2013 416 pages
3.94
16k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Football
Unbreakable Summary
Unbreakable
My Story, My Way
by Jenni Rivera 2013 240 pages
4.46
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography
by Mahatma Gandhi 2001 480 pages
4.1
71k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Lucky Man Summary
Lucky Man
A Memoir
by Michael J. Fox 2003 272 pages
4.07
27k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Growing Up Laughing Summary
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
by Marlo Thomas 2011 400 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Biography
Humor
Memoir
Autobiography of Mark Twain Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
by Mark Twain 2012 414 pages
3.80
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
Guts Summary
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
by Kristen Johnston 2012 288 pages
3.88
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Face the Music Summary
Face the Music
A Life Exposed
by Paul Stanley 2014 485 pages
4.12
4k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Every Second Counts Summary
Every Second Counts
by Lance Armstrong 2004 256 pages
3.53
4k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Life Without Limits Summary
Life Without Limits
Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life
by Nick Vujicic 2010 238 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Self Help
Not My Father's Son Summary
Not My Father's Son
by Alan Cumming 2014 304 pages
4.05
44k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
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