Memoir Book Summaries

The Heart and the Fist Summary
The Heart and the Fist
The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
by Eric Greitens 2011 320 pages
4.12
9.6K ratings
Military Fiction
Biography
Memoir
The Greatest Summary
The Greatest
My Own Story
by Richard Durham 1975 415 pages
4.26
1.5K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
My Name Is Barbra Summary
My Name Is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand 2023 1040 pages
4.18
19.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Reham Khan Summary
Reham Khan
by Reham Khan 2018 562 pages
2.57
451 ratings
Biography
Pakistan
Autobiography
How Dante Can Save Your Life Summary
How Dante Can Save Your Life
The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
by Rod Dreher 2015 320 pages
3.98
1.2K ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Literature
The Truth About Stories Summary
The Truth About Stories
A Native Narrative
by Thomas King 2003 184 pages
4.34
4.2K ratings
Indigenous
Essays
Canada
Dear Dolly Summary
Dear Dolly
by Dolly Alderton 2022 224 pages
3.80
38.7K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Essays
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) Summary
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
by Tabitha Brown 2021 288 pages
4.42
7.8K ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
Love Thy Neighbor Summary
Love Thy Neighbor
A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
by Ayaz Virji 2019 208 pages
4.14
1.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek Summary
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
by Dave Marinaccio 1994 128 pages
3.48
395 ratings
Star Trek
Philosophy
Self Help
Boldly Go Summary
Boldly Go
Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
by William Shatner 2022 256 pages
3.85
1.4K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting Summary
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
by Evanna Lynch 2021 463 pages
4.53
6.7K ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
I've Tried Being Nice Summary
I've Tried Being Nice
Essays
by Ann Leary 2024 240 pages
3.79
1.4K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch Summary
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch
How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
by Alison Arngrim 2010 302 pages
4.08
18.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Porcelain Summary
Porcelain
A Memoir
by Moby 2016 416 pages
3.97
4.3K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It Summary
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It
Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2016 240 pages
3.52
3.1K ratings
Memoir
Travel
Self Help
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism Summary
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
by Bernie Sanders 2023 320 pages
4.10
6.5K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Angelaโ€™s Ashes Summary
Angelaโ€™s Ashes
by Frank McCourt 1996 452 pages
4.15
648.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Classics
Listening to the Animals Summary
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
by Noel Fitzpatrick 2018 385 pages
4.27
3.4K ratings
Biography
Animals
Memoir
Goodbye, Sweet Girl Summary
Goodbye, Sweet Girl
A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
by Kelly Sundberg 2018 272 pages
3.84
2.2K ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Beyond the Gender Binary Summary
Beyond the Gender Binary
by Alok Vaid-Menon 2020 64 pages
4.49
12.7K ratings
LGBT
Queer
Gender
The Accidental President of Brazil Summary
The Accidental President of Brazil
A Memoir
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2006 291 pages
4.14
477 ratings
History
Brazil
Biography
The Long Walk Summary
The Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz 1956 256 pages
4.24
21.2K ratings
History
Adventure
Biography
Two Women Walk into a Bar Summary
Two Women Walk into a Bar
by Cheryl Strayed 2024 31 pages
4.04
20.5K ratings
Memoir
Short Stories
Biography
Myself and Other More Important Matters Summary
Myself and Other More Important Matters
by Charles B. Handy 2006 320 pages
4.11
129 ratings
Management
Biography
Business
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023 256 pages
4.12
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Health
Science
Elle & Coach Summary
Elle & Coach
Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter's Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything
by Stefany Shaheen 2015 240 pages
4.35
472 ratings
Animals
Biography
Memoir
Finding My Badass Self Summary
Finding My Badass Self
A Year of Truths and Dares
by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley 2017 225 pages
4.03
163 ratings
Humor
Memoir
Papa Hemingway Summary
Papa Hemingway
by A.E. Hotchner 1955 381 pages
4.20
2.7K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Where White Men Fear to Tread Summary
Where White Men Fear to Tread
The Autobiography of Russell Means
by Russell Means 1995 624 pages
4.14
1.4K ratings
Native American
Biography
History
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful Summary
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
A New Story About Anxiety
by Sarah Wilson 2017 320 pages
3.77
16.1K ratings
Self Help
Mental Health
Psychology
The 52 Week Project Summary
The 52 Week Project
How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year
by Lauren Keenan 2020 272 pages
3.35
364 ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Inspirational
Spy Catcher Summary
Spy Catcher
The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by Peter Wright 1987 496 pages
3.74
3.4K ratings
History
Espionage
Biography
The Smallest Lights in the Universe Summary
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
A Memoir
by Sara Seager 2020 308 pages
4.11
2.9K ratings
Memoir
Science
Biography
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain Summary
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
by Ryan Blair 2011 240 pages
3.57
818 ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
1910-1913
by Franz Kafka 1948 345 pages
4.21
241 ratings
Classics
Memoir
Diary
The Unwinding of the Miracle Summary
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams 2019 315 pages
4.10
10.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
26 Marathons Summary
26 Marathons
What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
by Meb Keflezighi 2019 256 pages
4.19
4.8K ratings
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet Summary
Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things
by Sara Hagerty 2014 208 pages
4.07
2.9K ratings
Christian
Faith
Memoir
Before I Forget Summary
Before I Forget
Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
by B. Smith 2016 302 pages
4.20
1.0K ratings
Biography
Health
Memoir
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character Summary
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman 1988 256 pages
4.19
30.1K ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
In Love Summary
In Love
A Memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom 2022 240 pages
4.26
23.7K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Praying for Strangers Summary
Praying for Strangers
An Adventure of the Human Spirit
by River Jordan 2011 336 pages
4.08
693 ratings
Memoir
Christian
Prayer
In My Time Summary
In My Time
A Personal and Political Memoir
by Dick Cheney 2011 576 pages
3.79
2.9K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
PURE OCD Summary
PURE OCD
The Invisible Side of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Chrissie Hodges 2017 205 pages
4.25
133 ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
The Meaning of Mariah Carey Summary
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
by Mariah Carey 2020 349 pages
4.08
24.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Music
Liar's Poker Summary
Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis 1989 310 pages
4.15
108.1K ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Poser Summary
Poser
My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
by Claire Dederer 2010 352 pages
3.57
6.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Facts Summary
The Facts
by Philip Roth 1988 210 pages
3.70
1.3K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
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
4.1K ratings
Memoir
Travel
Humor
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