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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
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
Listening to the Animals Summary
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
by Noel Fitzpatrick 2018 385 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Biography
Animals
Memoir
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 153 pages
3.66
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
Seven Letters from Paris Summary
Seven Letters from Paris
by Samantha Verant 2014 272 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Romance
France
A Childhood Summary
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
by Harry Crews 1978 182 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Southern
Storyteller Summary
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
by Kate Wilhelm 2005 200 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Reference
The Family Gene Summary
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
by Joselin Linder 2017 272 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Science
Medical
The Faraway Nearby Summary
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit 2013 259 pages
4.21
7k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Doglapan Summary
Doglapan
The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
by Ashneer Grover 2022 202 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Stalling for Time Summary
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
by Gary Noesner 2010 372 pages
3.93
5k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Little Earthquakes Summary
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
by Sarah Mandel 2023 288 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Abroad in Japan Summary
Abroad in Japan
Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
by Chris Broad 2023 320 pages
4.15
15k+ ratings
Travel
Japan
Memoir
Laundry Love Summary
Laundry Love
Finding Joy in a Common Chore
by Patric Richardson 2021 208 pages
4.17
4k+ ratings
Self Help
Reference
How To
Good Morning, Monster Summary
Good Morning, Monster
A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
by Catherine Gildiner 2020 368 pages
4.45
50k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Small Wonder Summary
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages
4.03
11k+ ratings
Essays
Nature
Memoir
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Summary
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
by Margareta Magnusson 2017 117 pages
3.41
27k+ ratings
Self Help
Death
Memoir
The Book of (More) Delights Summary
The Book of (More) Delights
Essays
by Ross Gay 2023 304 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
The Sunset Route Summary
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by Carrot Quinn 2021 304 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Seldom Disappointed Summary
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
by Tony Hillerman 2001 368 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Brave Summary
Brave
by Rose McGowan 2018 258 pages
3.86
9k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
What I Know for Sure Summary
What I Know for Sure
by Oprah Winfrey 2014 228 pages
4.14
45k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Biography
Somewhere Towards the End Summary
Somewhere Towards the End
by Diana Athill 2008 182 pages
3.72
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Step by Step Summary
Step by Step
The Life In My Journeys
by Simon Reeve 2018 352 pages
4.35
5k+ ratings
Travel
Biography
Autobiography
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance 2016 264 pages
3.85
400k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Finding My Balance Summary
Finding My Balance
A Memoir with Yoga
by Mariel Hemingway 2003 256 pages
3.47
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Take This Bread Summary
Take This Bread
A Radical Conversion
by Sara Miles 2007 283 pages
4.00
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Religion
Spirituality
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons Summary
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
by Blythe Grossberg 2021 304 pages
3.41
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Education
Biography Memoir
A Life in Football Summary
A Life in Football
My Autobiography
by Ian Wright 2016 415 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Football
Biography
Sports
Eat, Pray, Love Summary
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 368 pages
3.64
1.7M+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Black Box Summary
Black Box
by Shiori Itō 2017 256 pages
4.47
1k+ ratings
Japan
Memoir
Feminism
41-Love Summary
41-Love
by Scarlett Thomas 2022 384 pages
3.29
100+ ratings
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Punch Me Up to the Gods Summary
Punch Me Up to the Gods
by Brian Broome 2021 250 pages
4.33
5k+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Hate Next Door Summary
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
by Matson Browning 2023 368 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki Summary
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
by Baek Se-hee 2018 232 pages
3.25
73k+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Self Help
English Journey Summary
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley 1934 320 pages
4.08
100+ ratings
Travel
History
British Literature
Girl Code Summary
Girl Code
Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
by Andrea Gonzales 2017 272 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Be Useful Summary
Be Useful
Seven Tools for Life
by Arnold Schwarzenegger 2023 288 pages
4.13
25k+ ratings
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Politics On the Edge Summary
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
by Rory Stewart 2023 436 pages
4.34
13k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
A Matter of Death and Life Summary
A Matter of Death and Life
by Irvin D. Yalom 2021 240 pages
4.41
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Philosophy
Touched Out Summary
Touched Out
Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
by Amanda Montei 2023 256 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Feminism
Parenting
Memoir
If You Want to Write Summary
If You Want to Write
A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland 2012 179 pages
4.12
8k+ ratings
Writing
Art
Self Help
Wake Up With Purpose! Summary
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
by Jean Dolores Schmidt 2023 222 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Woman in Me Summary
The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears 2023 288 pages
3.84
500k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
A House in the Sky Summary
A House in the Sky
by Amanda Lindhout 2013 373 pages
4.27
68k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Summary
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
by Matthew Perry 2022 250 pages
3.93
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
In the Form of a Question Summary
In the Form of a Question
The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
by Amy Schneider 2023 272 pages
3.50
2k+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Unmasking AI Summary
Unmasking AI
My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
by Joy Buolamwini 2023 336 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Man’s Search for Meaning Summary
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 pages
4.38
700k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Mao's America Summary
Mao's America
A Survivor’s Warning
by Xi Van Fleet 2023 320 pages
4.45
100+ ratings
Politics
History
China
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