Memoir Book Summaries

Letters to a Young Scientist Summary
Letters to a Young Scientist
by Edward O. Wilson 2013 256 pages
3.90
4.6K ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
A Childhood Summary
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
by Harry Crews 1978 182 pages
4.35
2.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Southern
Our Time Is Now Summary
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
by Stacey Abrams 2020 272 pages
4.42
8.1K ratings
Politics
Social Justice
History
Real Estate Summary
Real Estate
by Deborah Levy 2021 297 pages
4.29
9.1K ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Every Second Counts Summary
Every Second Counts
by Lance Armstrong 2003
3.53
4.5K ratings
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Take This Bread Summary
Take This Bread
A Radical Conversion
by Sara Miles 2007 283 pages
4.00
5.4K ratings
Memoir
Religion
Spirituality
Running with the Kenyans Summary
Running with the Kenyans
Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
by Adharanand Finn 2010 288 pages
3.94
9.8K ratings
Sports
Travel
Memoir
Spies in the Family Summary
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
by Eva Dillon 2017 336 pages
4.15
1.2K ratings
History
Memoir
Espionage
Ghost Rider Summary
Ghost Rider
Travels on the Healing Road
by Neil Peart 2002 460 pages
4.12
6.6K ratings
Travel
Biography
Music
How Stella Learned to Talk Summary
How Stella Learned to Talk
The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
by Christina Hunger 2021 272 pages
4.41
4.1K ratings
Animals
Dogs
Science
How to Fail Summary
How to Fail
by Elizabeth Day 2019 272 pages
3.94
13.2K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Born on a Blue Day Summary
Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet 2006 226 pages
3.84
23.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
A Higher Loyalty Summary
A Higher Loyalty
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James B. Comey 2018 290 pages
4.10
48.9K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Extraordinary Circumstances Summary
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
by Cynthia Cooper 2007 402 pages
3.98
514 ratings
Business
Accounting
Memoir
The Rumi Prescription Summary
The Rumi Prescription
How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life
by Melody Moezzi 2020 272 pages
4.18
570 ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Mental Health
All Too Human Summary
All Too Human
by George Stephanopoulos 1999 480 pages
3.83
3.7K ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Gift from the Sea Summary
Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1955 130 pages
4.14
54.0K ratings
Memoir
Classics
Book Club
Writing My Wrongs Summary
Writing My Wrongs
by Shaka Senghor 2013 314 pages
4.25
5.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun Summary
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
A Memoir of the Holocaust
by Michael Gruenbaum 2015 384 pages
4.32
1.6K ratings
Holocaust
Memoir
History
Know Your Power Summary
Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
by Nancy Pelosi 2008 192 pages
3.41
539 ratings
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Hope Summary
Hope
The Autobiography
by Pope Francis 2025 320 pages
4.36
1.4K ratings
Biography
Religion
Memoir
How to Be Black Summary
How to Be Black
by Baratunde R. Thurston 2012 254 pages
3.90
8.9K ratings
Humor
Memoir
Race
My Broken Language Summary
My Broken Language
by Quiara AlegrΓ­a Hudes 2021 336 pages
4.20
3.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
My Beloved World Summary
My Beloved World
by Sonia Sotomayor 2013 302 pages
4.09
33.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
American Shaolin Summary
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly 2007 384 pages
4.03
3.2K ratings
Memoir
Martial Arts
China
Traveling Mercies Summary
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott 1999 275 pages
4.14
48.2K ratings
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
Sastun Summary
Sastun
My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
by Rosita Arvigo 1994 208 pages
4.38
646 ratings
Memoir
Anthropology
Biography Memoir
The Parrot's Perch Summary
The Parrot's Perch
by Karen Keilt 2019 288 pages
4.27
325 ratings
Memoir
Brazil
True Crime
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Summary
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What I Learned While Editing My Life
by Donald Miller 2009 255 pages
4.13
31.7K ratings
Memoir
Christian
Faith
What in the World?! Summary
What in the World?!
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
by Leanne Morgan 2024 240 pages
4.37
8.4K ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Summary
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by Caitlin Doughty 2014 254 pages
4.22
102.8K ratings
Memoir
Death
Science
Saved Summary
Saved
A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
by Benjamin Hall 2023 281 pages
4.58
4.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
War
The Beauty of What Remains Summary
The Beauty of What Remains
How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
by Steve Leder 2021 240 pages
4.45
2.8K ratings
Grief
Self Help
Spirituality
Undisputed Truth Summary
Undisputed Truth
by Mike Tyson 2013 592 pages
4.17
10.8K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Please Stop Laughing at Us... One Woman's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying Summary
Please Stop Laughing at Us... One Woman's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying
by Jodee Blanco 2008
3.88
233 ratings
Education
Autobiography
Biography
My Bondage and My Freedom Summary
My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass 1855 432 pages
4.38
12.1K ratings
History
Biography
Classics
Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul Summary
Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul
Real Stories by Real Girls About Real Stuff
by Jack Canfield 2005 350 pages
4.12
3.0K ratings
Short Stories
Self Help
Childrens
If We Break Summary
If We Break
A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
by Kathleen Buhle 2022 320 pages
4.20
3.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Secret Piano Summary
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
by Zhu Xiao-Mei 2007 311 pages
4.01
2.9K ratings
Memoir
China
Biography
The Woman in Me Summary
The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears 2023 288 pages
3.84
535.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Kamala's Way Summary
Kamala's Way
An American Life
by Dan Morain 2021 288 pages
3.33
1.1K ratings
Biography
Politics
Womens
A Life in Football Summary
A Life in Football
My Autobiography
by Ian Wright 2016 415 pages
4.06
1.5K ratings
Football
Biography
Sports
My Life in Red and White Summary
My Life in Red and White
by Arsène Wenger 2020 352 pages
3.65
5.1K ratings
Sports
Biography
Football
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 255 pages
3.84
4.0K ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The Sound of Gravel Summary
The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner 2016 336 pages
4.30
57.6K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Bully Market Summary
Bully Market
My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs
by Jamie Fiore Higgins 2022 320 pages
4.15
2.8K ratings
Memoir
Business
Finance
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
112.7K ratings
Classics
Essays
Race
Fallen Leaves Summary
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
by Will Durant 2014 208 pages
3.93
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
History
Essays
Providence Summary
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
by Daniel Quinn 1994 175 pages
3.71
996 ratings
Biography
Philosophy
Memoir
Brothers Summary
Brothers
by Alex Van Halen 2024 240 pages
4.06
6.0K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
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