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Bruce Lee Summary
Bruce Lee
Artist of Life
by Bruce Lee 1999 288 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Martial Arts
The Inevitability of Tragedy Summary
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
by Barry Gewen 2020 480 pages
4.03
461 ratings
History
Politics
Biography
Wake Up With Purpose! Summary
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
by Jean Dolores Schmidt 2023 222 pages
4.17
2.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Sports
Crash Test Girl Summary
Crash Test Girl
An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
by Kari Byron 2018 254 pages
3.92
1.0K ratings
Biography
Science
Memoir
The Blink of an Eye Summary
The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying―and Learning How to Live Again
by Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard 2018 227 pages
4.11
442 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medical
The Barefoot Lawyer Summary
The Barefoot Lawyer
A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
by Chen Guangcheng 2013 352 pages
4.28
436 ratings
China
Memoir
Biography
Made in China Summary
Made in China
A Memoir of Love and Labor
by Anna Qu 2021 224 pages
3.85
2.5K ratings
Memoir
China
Biography
Jerusalem Summary
Jerusalem
The Biography
by Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 752 pages
4.09
12.8K ratings
History
Religion
Biography
Little Earthquakes Summary
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
by Sarah Mandel 2023 288 pages
4.18
445 ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Get Out of Your Own Way Summary
Get Out of Your Own Way
A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
by Dave Hollis 2020 240 pages
3.80
6.7K ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Up Till Now Summary
Up Till Now
by William Shatner 2008 358 pages
3.84
3.2K ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Star Trek
R. C. Sproul Summary
R. C. Sproul
A Life
by Stephen J. Nichols 2021 400 pages
4.57
1.0K ratings
Biography
Christian
Theology
Organic Chemistry Summary
Organic Chemistry
by Jonathan Clayden 2000 1536 pages
4.30
1.0K ratings
Chemistry
Science
Textbooks
Off the Deep End Summary
Off the Deep End
The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife Crises, And Qualify For the Olympics
by W. Hodding Carter IV 2008 209 pages
3.30
111 ratings
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Models of My Life Summary
Models of My Life
by Herbert A. Simon 1991 415 pages
3.77
420 ratings
Biography
Science
Philosophy
Fake Heroes Summary
Fake Heroes
Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
by Otto English 2023 495 pages
3.92
626 ratings
History
Biography
Historical
Elizabeth I CEO Summary
Elizabeth I CEO
Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire
by Alan Axelrod 2000 288 pages
3.67
398 ratings
History
Business
Biography
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1.1K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Universal Man Summary
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines 2015 432 pages
3.69
202 ratings
Biography
Economics
History
Big Fellow, Long Fellow Summary
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera
by T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 256 pages
4.23
120 ratings
Ireland
History
Biography
Guitar Lessons Summary
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
by Bob Taylor 2011 272 pages
4.35
165 ratings
Music
Business
Biography
Broad Band Summary
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans 2018 288 pages
3.93
2.4K ratings
History
Science
Feminism
Peace from Broken Pieces Summary
Peace from Broken Pieces
How to Get Through What You're Going Through
by Iyanla Vanzant 2010 340 pages
4.23
3.1K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Spirituality
In the Garden of Beasts Summary
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson 2011 448 pages
3.89
213.1K ratings
History
Book Club
World War II
Natural Disaster Summary
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
by Ginger Zee 2017 288 pages
4.02
3.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
How to stand Up to a Dictator Summary
How to stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa 2022 288 pages
4.35
4.7K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
The Man Who Shocked The World Summary
The Man Who Shocked The World
The Life And Legacy Of Stanley Milgram
by Thomas Blass 2004 392 pages
3.95
210 ratings
Psychology
Biography
Science
The Miracle of the Kurds Summary
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
by Stephen Mansfield 2014 272 pages
4.08
321 ratings
History
Politics
Biography
Better to Live Summary
Better to Live
by Alastair Campbell 2020 320 pages
4.27
1.4K ratings
Psychology
Biography
Memoir
The Contrarian Summary
The Contrarian
Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin 2021 400 pages
3.60
2.1K ratings
Business
Biography
Politics
Writings of Abraham Lincoln Summary
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln 1953
4.12
308 ratings
History
Biography
Civil War
Under Their Thumb Summary
Under Their Thumb
How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones
by Bill German 2009 368 pages
3.98
415 ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Up from Slavery Summary
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington 1900 224 pages
4.11
35.4K ratings
History
Biography
Classics
My Left Foot Summary
My Left Foot
by Christy Brown 1954 184 pages
4.05
8.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Disability
How Music Works Summary
How Music Works
by David Byrne 2014 345 pages
4.01
27.1K ratings
Music
History
Art
What I Ate in One Year Summary
What I Ate in One Year
by Stanley Tucci 2024 368 pages
3.86
16.2K ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
Three Pianos Summary
Three Pianos
A Memoir
by Andrew McMahon 2021 240 pages
4.40
2.8K ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
A Nurse's Story Summary
A Nurse's Story
My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
by Louise Curtis 2020 286 pages
3.94
1.3K ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Mama Lola Summary
Mama Lola
A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
by Karen McCarthy Brown 1991 440 pages
4.04
1.3K ratings
Religion
Anthropology
Biography
Old Rage Summary
Old Rage
by Sheila Hancock 2022 272 pages
4.08
911 ratings
Memoir
Autobiography
Book Club
Sons of Wichita Summary
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
by Daniel Schulman 2014 432 pages
3.85
2.2K ratings
Biography
Politics
Business
Melania and Me Summary
Melania and Me
by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff 2020 351 pages
3.23
8.0K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
All or Nothing Summary
All or Nothing
How Trump Recaptured America
by Michael Wolff 2025 400 pages
3.76
577 ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
Morning Sunshine! Summary
Morning Sunshine!
How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too
by Robin Meade 2009 256 pages
3.70
291 ratings
Self Help
Autobiography
Biography
Girl Code Summary
Girl Code
Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
by Andrea Gonzales 2017 272 pages
3.99
1.2K ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Jung the Mystic Summary
Jung the Mystic
The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life & Teachings
by Gary Lachman 2010 272 pages
3.93
414 ratings
Psychology
Biography
Spirituality
That First Season Summary
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
by John Eisenberg 2009 292 pages
4.18
682 ratings
Sports
Football
Biography
Tokyo Vice Summary
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages
3.91
16.3K ratings
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
The Habsburgs Summary
The Habsburgs
To Rule the World
by Martyn Rady 2020 416 pages
3.85
2.7K ratings
History
European History
Biography
The Art of Being Unreasonable Summary
The Art of Being Unreasonable
Lessons in Unconventional Thinking
by Eli Broad 2012 256 pages
3.51
539 ratings
Business
Leadership
Biography
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