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The Best Strangers in the World Summary
The Best Strangers in the World
Stories from a Life Spent Listening
by Ari Shapiro 2023 256 pages
4.03
6.3K ratings
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Great Thinkers Summary
Great Thinkers
Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
by The School of Life 2016
4.36
1.7K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Art of Intelligence Summary
The Art of Intelligence
by Henry A. Crumpton 2012 11 pages
3.84
3.1K ratings
History
Espionage
Politics
The Orbital Perspective Summary
The Orbital Perspective
Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
by Ron Garan 2015 208 pages
3.81
191 ratings
Space
Science
Astronomy
American Wife Summary
American Wife
Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
by Taya Kyle 2015 329 pages
4.27
4.9K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Military Fiction
Hot Seat Summary
Hot Seat
by Jeff Immelt 2021 334 pages
3.97
863 ratings
Business
Leadership
Biography
Under the Black Hat Summary
Under the Black Hat
My Life in the WWE and Beyond
by Jim Ross 2020 295 pages
4.30
2.2K ratings
Biography
Sports
Memoir
The Way of The Iceman Summary
The Way of The Iceman
How The Wim Hof Method Creates Radiant, Longterm Health―Using The Science and Secrets of Breath Control, Cold-Training and Commitment
by Wim Hof 2015 168 pages
3.71
2.7K ratings
Health
Self Help
Personal Development
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Summary
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee 2018 277 pages
4.38
12.1K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Writing
Don’t Burn This Book Summary
Don’t Burn This Book
Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
by Dave Rubin 2020 256 pages
3.77
3.8K ratings
Politics
Biography
Philosophy
Iacocca Summary
Iacocca
An Autobiography
by Lee Iacocca 1984 366 pages
3.99
10.6K ratings
Biography
Business
Autobiography
Things I Learned from Falling Summary
Things I Learned from Falling
by Claire Nelson 2020 272 pages
4.07
5.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami Summary
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
by David Karashima 2020 289 pages
3.73
463 ratings
Japan
Writing
Books About Books
The Art of Winning Summary
The Art of Winning
Lessons from a Life in Football
by Bill Belichick 2025 273 pages
3.85
191 ratings
Sports
Biography
Football
Orphan Bachelors Summary
Orphan Bachelors
by Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 pages
3.89
206 ratings
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
King John and the Road to Magna Carta Summary
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
by Stephen Church 2015 328 pages
3.60
169 ratings
History
Biography
Medieval History
The Faraway Nearby Summary
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit 2013 259 pages
4.21
7.5K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Without the Mask Summary
Without the Mask
Coming Out and Coming Into God's Light
by Charlie Bird 2020 176 pages
4.53
2.4K ratings
Memoir
Religion
Lds
Tunesmith Summary
Tunesmith
Inside the Art of Songwriting
by Jimmy Webb 1998 448 pages
4.03
539 ratings
Music
Writing
History
The Stories We Tell Summary
The Stories We Tell
Every Piece of Your Story Matters
by Joanna Gaines 2022 247 pages
3.48
11.6K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Face the Music Summary
Face the Music
A Life Exposed
by Paul Stanley 2014 480 pages
4.13
5.2K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Sigmund Freud's Mission Summary
Sigmund Freud's Mission
by Erich Fromm 1959 129 pages
3.75
327 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Biography
Gray Matter Summary
Gray Matter
A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
by David I. Levy 2011 304 pages
4.20
1.9K ratings
Christian
Medical
Memoir
The Secret Teacher Summary
The Secret Teacher
by Anonymous 2018 321 pages
3.72
1.0K ratings
Teaching
Memoir
Education
Kabul Beauty School Summary
Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez 2007 275 pages
3.67
25.6K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Screw It, Let's Do It Summary
Screw It, Let's Do It
Lessons in Life
by Richard Branson 2007 111 pages
3.90
15.7K ratings
Business
Biography
Self Help
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
91.5K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
How to Murder Your Life Summary
How to Murder Your Life
by Cat Marnell 2017 384 pages
3.88
19.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Handbook for an Unpredictable Life Summary
Handbook for an Unpredictable Life
How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling
by Rosie Pérez 2014 338 pages
4.12
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Jew[ish] Summary
Jew[ish]
by Matt Greene 2020 199 pages
3.54
2.1K ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman Summary
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Action Heroes
by Vic Armstrong 2011 384 pages
3.67
395 ratings
Biography
Media Tie In
Memoir
Losing the Signal Summary
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
by Jacquie McNish 2015 288 pages
3.98
5.2K ratings
Business
Technology
History
Brave Summary
Brave
by Rose McGowan 2018 258 pages
3.86
9.5K ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
The Moment of Lift Summary
The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World
by Melinda French Gates 2019 273 pages
4.27
63.1K ratings
Feminism
Memoir
Book Club
The Addiction Manifesto Summary
The Addiction Manifesto
by Jerry Weaver 2018 178 pages
4.76
1.2K ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Summary
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin 1791 143 pages
3.85
88.9K ratings
Biography
History
Classics
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
by Pepper White 1991
3.85
254 ratings
Education
Science
Biography
Make Your Own Rules Summary
Make Your Own Rules
Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age
by Andrew Huang 2024 320 pages
4.27
245 ratings
Music
Memoir
Self Help
You're Never Weird on the Internet Summary
You're Never Weird on the Internet
by Felicia Day 2015 272 pages
4.07
49.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Over the Top Summary
Over the Top
A Raw Journey to Self-Love
by Jonathan Van Ness 2019 6 pages
4.19
67.4K ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Same Kind of Different as Me Summary
Same Kind of Different as Me
A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by Ron Hall 2006 237 pages
4.20
91.7K ratings
Book Club
Memoir
Christian
The Liars' Club Summary
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr 1995 352 pages
3.94
70.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Dog Medicine Summary
Dog Medicine
by Julie Barton 2015 222 pages
4.25
4.3K ratings
Memoir
Animals
Dogs
Ogni giorno è un buon giorno Summary
Ogni giorno è un buon giorno
Quindici gioie che il tè mi ha insegnato
by Noriko Morishita 2002 248 pages
3.94
1.9K ratings
Japan
Tea
Japanese Literature
Wise Guy Summary
Wise Guy
Lessons from a Life
by Guy Kawasaki 2019 272 pages
3.95
667 ratings
Biography
Business
Self Help
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Summary
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
by Mindy Kaling 2011 222 pages
3.86
507.8K ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Grant Summary
Grant
by Ron Chernow 2017 1074 pages
4.50
41.2K ratings
History
Biography
Civil War
Lights Out Summary
Lights Out
Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
by Thomas Gryta 2020 368 pages
3.92
4.7K ratings
Business
History
Economics
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs Summary
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
by Alan Deutschman 2000 352 pages
3.96
3.0K ratings
Biography
Business
Apple
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story Summary
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story
How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
by William Hazelgrove 2018 332 pages
3.63
126 ratings
History
Biography
Science
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