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Into Thin Air Summary
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer 2009 432 pages
4.24
500k+ ratings
Adventure
Memoir
Travel
A Jane Austen Education Summary
A Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
by William Deresiewicz 2011 272 pages
3.84
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
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
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain Summary
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young 2012 288 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Reason I Jump Summary
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
by Naoki Higashida 2013 176 pages
3.87
57k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
On Writing Summary
On Writing
A Memoir Of The Craft
by Stephen King 2000 288 pages
4.34
200k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore (Annotated Edition)
by Edwin Lefèvre 2009 448 pages
4.18
18k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Keeping the Republic Summary
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
by Mitch Daniels 2012 272 pages
4
100+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Government
Daily Rituals Summary
Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
by Mason Currey 2013 278 pages
3.65
20k+ ratings
Art
Writing
Self Help
The Glass Castle Summary
The Glass Castle
A Memoir
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
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
Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) Summary
Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
by Michael Lewis 2010 320 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Everything Store Summary
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone 2013 384 pages
4.14
74k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
George Washington's Secret Six Summary
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by Brian Kilmeade 2013 256 pages
3.85
19k+ ratings
History
American History
American Revolution
I Am Malala Summary
I Am Malala
The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai 2013 328 pages
4.15
500k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Feminism
Mandela's Way Summary
Mandela's Way
Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
by Richard Stengel 2010 256 pages
4.10
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Self Help
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Summary
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
by SCOTT ADAMS 2013 248 pages
4.06
19k+ ratings
Self Help
Business
Biography
My Story Summary
My Story
by Elizabeth Smart 2013 320 pages
3.87
44k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
The Rejected Stone Summary
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
by Al Sharpton 2013 272 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
African American
Eleven Rings Summary
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
by Phil Jackson 2013 368 pages
4.18
15k+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Leadership
Serve to Win Summary
Serve to Win
The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence
by Novak Djokovic 2013 192 pages
3.87
3k+ ratings
Health
Biography
Sports
The Real Mad Men Summary
The Real Mad Men
The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising
by Andrew Cracknell 2012 224 pages
3.54
100+ ratings
History
Business
Biography
Finding Ultra Summary
Finding Ultra
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
by Rich Roll 2012 288 pages
4.02
24k+ ratings
Health
Sports
Biography
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 Sir Alex Ferguson 2013 416 pages
3.94
16k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Football
There Was a Country Summary
There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
by Chinua Achebe 2012 352 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
History
Africa
Nigeria
50/50 Summary
50/50
by Dean Karnazes 2009 333 pages
3.77
4k+ ratings
Sports
Memoir
Fitness
Modern Classics Autobiography Summary
Modern Classics Autobiography
by M K Gandhi 2001 480 pages
4.1
71k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
How Proust Can Change Your Life Summary
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain De Botton 1998 208 pages
3.76
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Beautiful Boy Summary
Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff 2008 326 pages
4.15
91k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
The River of Doubt Summary
The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard 2006 416 pages
4.19
68k+ ratings
History
Biography
Adventure
Dying To Be Me Summary
Dying To Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
by Anita Moorjani 2012 191 pages
4.16
15k+ ratings
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Memory Palace Summary
The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartok 2011 320 pages
3.53
7k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Illness
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs Summary
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
by Carmine Gallo 2010 272 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Management
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 576 pages
4.02
15k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
Skunk Works Summary
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich 1994 370 pages
4.45
13k+ ratings
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2012 334 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
Autobiography of Mark Twain Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader’s Edition (Mark Twain Papers)
by Mark Twain 2012 414 pages
3.80
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
Bad Habits Summary
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
by Jenny McCarthy 2012 240 pages
3.6
1k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Biography
My Spiritual Journey Summary
My Spiritual Journey
Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks
by Dalai Lama 2010 387 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Buddhism
Biography
Spirituality
What the Animals Taught Me Summary
What the Animals Taught Me
Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
by Stephanie Marohn 2012 192 pages
3.77
100+ ratings
Animals
Memoir
Nature
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! Summary
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!
Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality
by Lori Greiner 2014 288 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
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
Dancing Fish and Ammonites Summary
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
by Penelope Lively 2014 240 pages
3.63
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
British Literature
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
Brain on Fire Summary
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan 2013 272 pages
4.09
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
The Promise of a Pencil Summary
The Promise of a Pencil
How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
by Adam Braun 2014 272 pages
4.13
7k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
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