Memoir Book Summaries

The Light We Give Summary
The Light We Give
How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
by Simran Jeet Singh 2022 320 pages
4.21
1.2K ratings
Religion
Self Help
Memoir
Be Different Summary
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
by John Elder Robison 2011 304 pages
3.97
3.2K ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
Every Deep-Drawn Breath Summary
Every Deep-Drawn Breath
A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
by Wes Ely 2021 352 pages
4.36
1.5K ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
Any Ordinary Day Summary
Any Ordinary Day
by Leigh Sales 2018 244 pages
4.13
16.0K ratings
Book Club
Psychology
Biography
Joseph Anton Summary
Joseph Anton
A Memoir
by Salman Rushdie 2012 636 pages
3.64
9.2K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Profiler Summary
The Profiler
My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
by Pat Brown 2010 285 pages
3.08
1.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Ice Summary
Ice
A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemptionโ€”from South Central to Hollywood
by Ice-T 2011 251 pages
3.88
1.6K ratings
Biography
Music
Memoir
The Way of the Hermit Summary
The Way of the Hermit
My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
by Ken Smith 2023 298 pages
4.22
2.0K ratings
Memoir
Nature
Biography
You Are an Ironman Summary
You Are an Ironman
How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Triathlon
by Jacques Steinberg 2011 304 pages
3.84
1.6K ratings
Sports
Fitness
Biography
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder Summary
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
A Memoir
by Sarah Kurchak 2020 240 pages
4.17
1.0K ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Mental Health
All Souls Summary
All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999 263 pages
4.08
13.6K ratings
Memoir
History
Biography
Mobile Home Summary
Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
by Megan Harlan 2020 184 pages
4.62
158 ratings
Essays
Memoir
Travel
If Women Rose Rooted Summary
If Women Rose Rooted
The Power of the Celtic Woman
by Sharon Blackie 2016 400 pages
4.28
4.2K ratings
Feminism
Spirituality
Nature
A Lab of One's Own Summary
A Lab of One's Own
One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
by Rita Colwell 2020 288 pages
4.26
669 ratings
Science
Feminism
Memoir
One Dress. One Year. Summary
One Dress. One Year.
by Bethany Winz 2016 160 pages
3.31
174 ratings
Biography Memoir
Christian Non Fiction
Novella
The Water Is Wide Summary
The Water Is Wide
by Pat Conroy 1972 310 pages
4.17
26.1K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Blind Curves Summary
Blind Curves
A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself
by Linda Crill 2013 256 pages
3.65
145 ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
COUNSELOR Summary
COUNSELOR
A Life at the Edge of History
by Theodore C. Sorensen 2008 556 pages
4.04
1.2K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Knocking on Heaven's Door Summary
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
by Katy Butler 2013 322 pages
4.12
3.2K ratings
Memoir
Death
Medicine
Six Days of Impossible Summary
Six Days of Impossible
Navy SEAL Hell Week - A Doctor Looks Back
by Robert Adams 2017 228 pages
4.40
350 ratings
Military Fiction
War
Military History
Conversations with RBG Summary
Conversations with RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
by Jeffrey Rosen 2019 272 pages
4.15
4.0K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
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
910 ratings
Science
Memoir
Neuroscience
The Imam's Daughter Summary
The Imam's Daughter
by Hannah Shah 2009 272 pages
4.14
2.4K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self Summary
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
by Stephen Cope 1999 358 pages
4.12
2.5K ratings
Spirituality
Psychology
Health
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die Summary
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
by Daniel Sloss 2021 259 pages
3.93
7.2K ratings
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
Faith, Hope and Carnage Summary
Faith, Hope and Carnage
by Nick Cave 2022 294 pages
4.42
7.0K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
How We Fight For Our Lives Summary
How We Fight For Our Lives
by Saeed Jones 2019 192 pages
4.27
22.6K ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Endurance Summary
Endurance
A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly 2017 400 pages
4.21
22.3K ratings
Science
Biography
Space
Glow in the F*cking Dark Summary
Glow in the F*cking Dark
by Tara Schuster 2023 302 pages
3.92
2.9K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
If You Find This Letter Summary
If You Find This Letter
My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
by Hannah Brencher 2015 272 pages
4.04
1.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Writing
My Planet Summary
My Planet
Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
by Mary Roach 2013 191 pages
3.66
3.9K ratings
Humor
Science
Essays
Home Summary
Home
A Memoir of My Early Years
by Julie Andrews Edwards 2008 339 pages
3.96
20.9K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Upstairs Wife Summary
The Upstairs Wife
An Intimate History of Pakistan
by Rafia Zakaria 2015 264 pages
3.77
1.2K ratings
Pakistan
History
Memoir
Flying Scotsman Summary
Flying Scotsman
Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours
by Graeme Obree 2003 244 pages
4.17
659 ratings
Cycling
Biography
Autobiography
Operation Ironman Summary
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
by George Mahood 2015 315 pages
4.52
2.2K ratings
Biography
Humor
Travel
Hi, Anxiety Summary
Hi, Anxiety
Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
by Kat Kinsman 2016 240 pages
3.64
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
Essential Labor Summary
Essential Labor
Mothering as Social Change
by Angela Garbes 2022 256 pages
3.81
2.9K ratings
Parenting
Feminism
Memoir
The Calculus of Friendship Summary
The Calculus of Friendship
What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
by Steven H. Strogatz 2009 184 pages
3.86
390 ratings
Mathematics
Science
Biography
The Envoy Summary
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
by Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 336 pages
3.68
160 ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Enchantment Summary
Enchantment
Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
by Katherine May 2023 212 pages
3.61
11.0K ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Nature
The Little Book of Big Lies Summary
The Little Book of Big Lies
A Journey into Inner Fitness
by Tina Lifford 2012 224 pages
4.02
471 ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
Never Give an Inch Summary
Never Give an Inch
Fighting for the America I Love
by Mike Pompeo 2022 455 pages
4.32
1.6K ratings
Politics
Biography
History
Showing Up for Life Summary
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
by Bill Gates Sr. 2009 208 pages
3.76
1.2K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Self Help
A Century Is Not Enough Summary
A Century Is Not Enough
My Roller-coaster Ride to Success
by Sourav Ganguly 2018 258 pages
3.99
2.0K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
The Success Myth Summary
The Success Myth
Our obsession with achievement is a trap. This is how to break free
by Emma Gannon 2023 336 pages
4.00
613 ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Memoir
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pages
4.04
258 ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
The Prophet's Way Summary
The Prophet's Way
A Guide to Living in the Now
by Thom Hartmann 2001 336 pages
4.08
289 ratings
Spirituality
Memoir
Philosophy
Autobiography Summary
Autobiography
by John Stuart Mill 1873 240 pages
3.76
1.1K ratings
Biography
Philosophy
History
Yesterday, I Cried Summary
Yesterday, I Cried
by Iyanla Vanzant 1998 304 pages
4.26
2.9K ratings
Self Help
Spirituality
Inspirational
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Summary
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
by Nick Flynn 2004 347 pages
3.80
11.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
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