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Tuesdays with Morrie Summary
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom 1997 224 pages
4.18
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Classics
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
I'm a Stranger Here Myself Summary
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson 1999 304 pages
3.9
67k+ ratings
Travel
Humor
Memoir
The Happiness Project Summary
The Happiness Project
Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
by Gretchen Rubin 2009 301 pages
3.65
100k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
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
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Summary
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace 1998 368 pages
4.15
49k+ ratings
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
by Mark Twain 2010 736 pages
3.8
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
A Man Without a Country Summary
A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut 2007 160 pages
4.09
46k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Bossypants Summary
Bossypants
by Tina Fey 2011 283 pages
3.96
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Zen in the Art of Writing Summary
Zen in the Art of Writing
Essays on Creativity
by Ray Bradbury 1994 176 pages
4.08
20k+ ratings
Writing
Essays
Memoir
Mountains Beyond Mountains Summary
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)
by Tracy Kidder 2009 332 pages
4.19
85k+ ratings
Biography
Medicine
Memoir
Reading Lolita in Tehran Summary
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi 2003 384 pages
3.65
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Crazy for God Summary
Crazy for God
How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almos
by Frank Schaeffer 2008 449 pages
3.68
2k+ ratings
Religion
Memoir
Biography
BIRD BY BIRD Summary
BIRD BY BIRD
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott 1994 256 pages
4.24
100k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
An Unquiet Mind Summary
An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison 2009 240 pages
4.06
79k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Vintage International) Summary
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Vintage International)
by Haruki Murakami 2008 194 pages
3.87
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Japan
Open Summary
Open
by Andre Agassi 2009 547 pages
4.31
100k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Memoir
Escape Summary
Escape
A Memoir
by Carolyn Jessop 2007 458 pages
3.98
44k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Start Something That Matters Summary
Start Something That Matters
by Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 pages
4.02
11k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Last Lecture, The Summary
Last Lecture, The
by Pausch
4.26
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Yoga Bitch Summary
Yoga Bitch
One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
by Suzanne Morrison 2011 354 pages
3.67
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Humor
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
A Memoir
by Pat Conroy 2003 416 pages
3.90
10k+ ratings
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Let My People Go Surfing Summary
Let My People Go Surfing
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
by Yvon Chouinard 2006 272 pages
4.19
24k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
Be Different Summary
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
by John Elder Robison 2011 306 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning
And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Ob
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
Kurt Vonnegut Summary
Kurt Vonnegut
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut 2012 464 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Essays
The Noonday Demon Summary
The Noonday Demon
An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon 2002 578 pages
4.2
14k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
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 Water Is Wide Summary
The Water Is Wide
A Memoir
by Pat Conroy 2002 320 pages
4.16
25k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Education
Wild Summary
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed 2012 336 pages
4.06
800k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Running With the Kenyans Summary
Running With the Kenyans
Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
by Adharanand Finn 2012 288 pages
3.93
9k+ ratings
Sports
Travel
Memoir
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
A Memoir
by Mary Karr 2005 352 pages
3.94
69k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
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 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
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
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
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
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