Memoir
Real lives unfold on these pages as writers share their most profound experiences, revelations, and transformative moments through intimate personal storytelling. Whether penned by world leaders or beloved artists, each memoir offers a window into someone's truth - their struggles and triumphs, wisdom and wonder, laughter and loss.
Memoir Book Summaries
Brown Girl Dreaming
Poetry
Memoir
Middle Grade
True Hallucinations
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
1001 Nights in Iraq
The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves
Memoir
War
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
Yesterday, I Cried
Self Help
Spirituality
Inspirational
Sovietistan
Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Travel
History
Asia
The Undocumented Americans
Memoir
Politics
Social Justice
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
Politics
Memoir
African American
Choosing to SEE
A Journey of Struggle and Hope
Christian
Biography
Memoir
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
How to Think Like da Vinci
Biography
Art
Memoir
A Life in Parts
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old
Humor
Self Help
Memoir
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
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Environment
Memoir
Politics
The Book of Moods
How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Travel
Memoir
Greece
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
The Sober Girl Society Handbook
An Empowering Guide to Living Hangover Free
Self Help
Health
Alcohol
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Churchill
The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
History
Biography
Politics
Never Far from Home
My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Memoir
Autobiography
Business
An Everlasting Meal
Cooking with Economy and Grace
Food
Cookbooks
Cooking
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Memoir
Music
Feminism
Mover Of Men and Mountains
Biography
Christian
Business
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
My Autobiography
Biography
Film
Autobiography
The In-Between
Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing: A Spiritual Memoir
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
On Pluto
Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Psychology
Health
Crazy for God
How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Travels with Epicurus
A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Philosophy
Travel
Greece
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Happier at Home
Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
Unbearable Lightness
A Story of Loss and Gain
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
When Women Were Birds
Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
The Dark Side of the Mind
True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
In Good Company
The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience
Religion
Spirituality
Biography
From Fear to Freedom
Living as Sons and Daughters of God
Christian
Memoir
Theology
The Road Beneath My Feet
Music
Biography
Memoir
Not My Father's Son
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Science
Your Life in My Hands
A Junior Doctor's Story
Medicine
Medical
Memoir
Melania and Me
Politics
Memoir
Biography
7 Lessons from Heaven
How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life
Christian
Spirituality
Religion
Let Me Tell You a Story
A Lifetime in the Game
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Three Women
Feminism
Book Club
Contemporary
