Memoir Book Summaries

Peace from Broken Pieces Summary
Peace from Broken Pieces
How to Get Through What You're Going Through
by Iyanla Vanzant 2010 340 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Spirituality
A Renaissance of Our Own Summary
A Renaissance of Our Own
A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle 2023 256 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Queer
Feminism
Teach Us to Sit Still Summary
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
by Tim Parks 2010 352 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Health
Biography
Boldly Go Summary
Boldly Go
Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
by William Shatner 2022 256 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
You Must Set Forth at Dawn Summary
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
by Wole Soyinka 2006 528 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Africa
Nigeria
Memoir
Do Cool Sh*t Summary
Do Cool Sh*t
Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After
by Miki Agrawal 2013 240 pages
3.42
1k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
What We Carry Summary
What We Carry
A Memoir
by Maya Shanbhag Lang 2020 288 pages
4.32
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Fist Stick Knife Gun Summary
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
by Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Graphic Novels
Education
Finding My Badass Self Summary
Finding My Badass Self
A Year of Truths and Dares
by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley 2017 225 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
On the Shoulders of Giants Summary
On the Shoulders of Giants
My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2007 288 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
History
Sports
Biography
Knocking Myself Up Summary
Knocking Myself Up
A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
by Michelle Tea 2022 294 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Prisoner Summary
Prisoner
My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
by Jason Rezaian 2019 320 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Off the Deep End Summary
Off the Deep End
The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife Crises, And Qualify For the Olympics
by W. Hodding Carter IV 2008 209 pages
3.30
100+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Better to Live Summary
Better to Live
by Alastair Campbell 2020 320 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Biography
Memoir
Touched Out Summary
Touched Out
Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
by Amanda Montei 2023 256 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Feminism
Parenting
Memoir
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl Summary
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
Loving the Skin You're In
by Tess Holliday 2017 304 pages
3.56
500+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
The Tin Ring Summary
The Tin Ring
How I Cheated Death
by Zdenka Fantlova 1996 228 pages
4.45
100+ ratings
History
Holocaust
War
The Ghost in My Brain Summary
The Ghost in My Brain
How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
by Clark Elliott 2015 336 pages
3.81
500+ ratings
Science
Memoir
Neuroscience
When They Call You a Terrorist Summary
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 2018 257 pages
4.50
24k+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Two Whole Cakes Summary
Two Whole Cakes
How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
by Lesley Kinzel 2012 160 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
Feminism
Memoir
Self Help
The Little Locksmith Summary
The Little Locksmith
by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943 272 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Classics
Biography
Restaurant Man Summary
Restaurant Man
by Joe Bastianich 2012 288 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Food
Memoir
Cooking
Dear Madam President Summary
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
by Jennifer Palmieri 2018 179 pages
3.89
5k+ ratings
Politics
Feminism
Memoir
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
Tough Broad Summary
Tough Broad
From Bird-Watching to BASE Jumping―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
by Caroline Paul 2024 288 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
Health
Adventure
Memoir
Made in China Summary
Made in China
A Memoir of Love and Labor
by Anna Qu 2021 224 pages
3.85
2k+ ratings
Memoir
China
Biography
Cassandra Speaks Summary
Cassandra Speaks
When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
by Elizabeth Lesser 2020 304 pages
4.07
5k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Essays
Dreaming in Chinese Summary
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
by Deborah Fallows 2010 208 pages
3.63
2k+ ratings
China
Language
Travel
Quest For Love Summary
Quest For Love
Memoir of a Child Sex Slave
by Anneke Lucas 2022 300 pages
4.53
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Write Your Own Fairy Tale Summary
Write Your Own Fairy Tale
The New Rules for Dating, Relationships, and Finding Love On Your Terms
by Siggy Flicker 2015 240 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Memoir
Bone Summary
Bone
Dying into Life
by Marion Woodman 2000 272 pages
4.12
100+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Spirituality
Natural Disaster Summary
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
by Ginger Zee 2017 288 pages
4.02
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Not That I'd Kiss A Girl Summary
Not That I'd Kiss A Girl
A Kiwi girl's tale of coming out and coming of age
by Lil O'Brien 2020 344 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Little Earthquakes Summary
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
by Sarah Mandel 2023 288 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal Summary
Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal
Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad
by Scott Benner 2013 230 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Parenting
Memoir
Humor
Yoga Girl Summary
Yoga Girl
by Rachel Brathen 2014 176 pages
4.19
4k+ ratings
Health
Memoir
Spirituality
How to Be a Woman Summary
How to Be a Woman
by Caitlin Moran 2011 312 pages
3.72
100k+ ratings
Feminism
Memoir
Humor
Tears of the Desert Summary
Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
by Halima Bashir 2008 316 pages
4.23
4k+ ratings
Africa
Memoir
Biography
Up Till Now Summary
Up Till Now
by William Shatner 2008 358 pages
3.84
3k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Star Trek
On the Other Side of Fear Summary
On the Other Side of Fear
How I Found Peace
by Hallie Lord 2016 160 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Religion
Catholic
Memoir
A Doctor in the House Summary
A Doctor in the House
The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
by Mahathir Mohamad 2011 843 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
I've Tried Being Nice Summary
I've Tried Being Nice
Essays
by Ann Leary 2024 240 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
A Nurse's Story Summary
A Nurse's Story
My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
by Louise Curtis 2020 286 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Twenty-Two Summary
Twenty-Two
Letters to a Young Woman Searching for Meaning
by Allison Trowbridge 2017 288 pages
3.58
500+ ratings
Self Help
Christian
Womens
Spy Catcher Summary
Spy Catcher
The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by Peter Wright 1987 392 pages
3.73
3k+ ratings
History
Espionage
Biography
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog Summary
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
by Emily Dean 2019 257 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
What Seems To Be The Problem? Summary
What Seems To Be The Problem?
by Laura Marshall-Andrews 2022 272 pages
4.26
100+ ratings
Memoir
Medical
Medicine
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves Summary
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
by Jack Douglas 1972 256 pages
3.29
100+ ratings
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
Life After Suicide Summary
Life After Suicide
Finding Courage, Comfort & Community After Unthinkable Loss
by Jennifer Ashton 2019
3.83
500+ ratings
Mental Health
Memoir
Grief
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