Memoir
Real lives unfold on these pages as authors share their most profound experiences, from quiet everyday moments to world-changing events that shaped history. Whether humorous or heart-wrenching, each personal story offers intimate glimpses into the human spirit through the lens of memory and reflection.
Memoir Book Summaries
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
Music
Biography
Memoir
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Istanbul
Memories and the City
Travel
Memoir
Biography
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
A Brilliant Life
My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
The Most Beautiful
My Life with Prince
Memoir
Biography
Music
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Perfectly Queer
Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet
LGBT
Queer
Memoir
The Truth About Stories
A Native Narrative
Indigenous
Essays
Canada
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Wellness Project
How I Learned to Do Right by My Body, Without Giving Up My Life
Health
Self Help
Memoir
Gnar Country
Growing Old, Staying Rad
Health
Sports
Fitness
From Miniskirt to Hijab
A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Iran
Memoir
Biography
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
Managing Up
How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You
Business
Leadership
Management
The Half of It
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
Blood & Oil
A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
Iran
History
Memoir
Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised
A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Sports
Memoir
Basketball
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Biography
Memoir
Classics
Ghost Hunting
True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Paranormal
Ghosts
Supernatural
A Century Is Not Enough
My Roller-coaster Ride to Success
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Courage to Soar
A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Memoir
Sports
Biography
I Didn't Know I Needed This
The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Self Help
Memoir
Romance
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
What I Ate in One Year
Memoir
Food
Biography
Moonwalk
Biography
Music
Autobiography
World Travel
An Irreverent Guide
Travel
Food
Memoir
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Confessions of a Surgeon
The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
Medical
Medicine
Memoir
The Matheny Manifesto
A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life
Sports
Baseball
Leadership
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
On Being Human
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Memoir
Self Help
Biography Memoir
Julie and Julia
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Memoir
Food
Cooking
Good Book
The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Religion
Humor
History
And How Does That Make You Feel?
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
I Must Say
My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
Biography
Memoir
Humor
I'd Rather Be Reading
The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Books About Books
Essays
Memoir
Madly, Deeply
The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Boy Erased
A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Basketball Diaries
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
