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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 210 pages
4.19
1.1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Classics
An Ordinary Man Summary
An Ordinary Man
An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina 2006 224 pages
4.19
6k+ ratings
Africa
Biography
History
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
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 1998 304 pages
3.90
68k+ ratings
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Summary
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua 2011 237 pages
3.66
53k+ ratings
Parenting
Memoir
Biography
I Remember Nothing Summary
I Remember Nothing
And Other Reflections
by Nora Ephron 2010 137 pages
3.80
34k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Essays
The Happiness Project Summary
The Happiness Project
by Gretchen Rubin 2009 301 pages
3.65
100k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
90k+ ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Summary
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
4.11
200k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Essays
The Next Big Story Summary
The Next Big Story
My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities
by Soledad O'Brien 2010 334 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
African American
A Widow's Story Summary
A Widow's Story
by Joyce Carol Oates 2011 432 pages
3.75
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Committed Summary
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2009 305 pages
3.44
55k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
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 1996 353 pages
4.14
51k+ ratings
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Autobiography of Mark Twain Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
by Mark Twain 2010 414 pages
3.80
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
A Man Without a Country Summary
A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2005 145 pages
4.09
47k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Gray Matter Summary
Gray Matter
A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
by David I. Levy 2011 304 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Christian
Medical
Memoir
Life and Death in Shanghai Summary
Life and Death in Shanghai
by Nien Cheng 1986 547 pages
4.32
13k+ ratings
China
History
Memoir
Bossypants Summary
Bossypants
by Tina Fey 2011 283 pages
3.96
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Comedy
Zen in the Art of Writing Summary
Zen in the Art of Writing
Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
by Ray Bradbury 1973 158 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
by Tracy Kidder 2003 333 pages
4.20
86k+ ratings
Biography
Medicine
Memoir
Reading Lolita in Tehran Summary
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi 2003 356 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 Almost All) of It Back
by Frank Schaeffer 2007 304 pages
3.68
2k+ ratings
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Onward Summary
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
by Howard Schultz 2007 350 pages
3.85
29k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Leadership
Bird by Bird Summary
Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott 1994 238 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 1995 240 pages
4.06
82k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Summary
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami 2007 188 pages
3.87
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Japan
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
The Wisdom of Wilderness Summary
The Wisdom of Wilderness
Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature
by Gerald G. May 2006 224 pages
4.20
100+ ratings
Spirituality
Nature
Philosophy
The Chronology of Water Summary
The Chronology of Water
by Lidia Yuknavitch 2011 310 pages
4.20
14k+ ratings
Memoir
Queer
Feminism
Open Summary
Open
by Andre Agassi 2009 388 pages
4.31
100k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Memoir
Escape Summary
Escape
by Carolyn Jessop 2007 413 pages
3.98
45k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Providence Summary
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
by Daniel Quinn 1994 175 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Biography
Philosophy
Memoir
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
Start Something That Matters Summary
Start Something That Matters
by Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 pages
4.02
11k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
The Last Lecture Summary
The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch 2008 206 pages
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 352 pages
3.67
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Humor
Agatha Christie Summary
Agatha Christie
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie 1977 560 pages
4.12
11k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Below Stairs Summary
Below Stairs
by Margaret Powell 1968 212 pages
3.58
14k+ ratings
Memoir
History
Biography
Losing My Virginity Summary
Losing My Virginity
How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
by Richard Branson 1998 416 pages
4.00
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 1993 144 pages
4.29
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
My Losing Season Summary
My Losing Season
A Memoir
by Pat Conroy 2002 402 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
26k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
Geography of Bliss Summary
Geography of Bliss
by Eric Weiner 2008 353 pages
3.84
37k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Psychology
Choosing to SEE Summary
Choosing to SEE
by Mary Beth Chapman 2010 289 pages
4.29
15k+ ratings
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Be Different Summary
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
by John Elder Robison 2011 304 pages
3.97
3k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith 2008 225 pages
3.90
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
The Book of Drugs Summary
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
by Mike Doughty 2012 256 pages
3.62
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Audacity of Hope Summary
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama 2006 375 pages
3.83
100k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Summary
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver 2007 370 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Food
Memoir
Gardening
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