Memoir Book Summaries

Mountains Beyond Mountains Summary
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder 2003 333 pages
4.20
86.9K ratings
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
The Magnolia Story Summary
The Magnolia Story
by Chip Gaines 2016 217 pages
4.18
97.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
How to stand Up to a Dictator Summary
How to stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa 2022 288 pages
4.35
4.7K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia Summary
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
by Wendy Mitchell 2022 240 pages
4.23
947 ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Health
Tramp for the Lord Summary
Tramp for the Lord
by Corrie ten Boom 1971 192 pages
4.49
25.8K ratings
Christian
Biography
History
The PDA Paradox Summary
The PDA Paradox
by Harry Thompson 2019 184 pages
3.78
380 ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
Living with the Monks Summary
Living with the Monks
What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
by Jesse Itzler 2018 304 pages
3.84
2.9K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
A Hole in the World Summary
A Hole in the World
Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
by Amanda Held Opelt 2022 256 pages
4.42
729 ratings
Grief
Spirituality
Memoir
Safe Summary
Safe
A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
by Mark Daley 2024 304 pages
4.41
578 ratings
Memoir
Parenting
Biography Memoir
Never Enough Summary
Never Enough
A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning
by Mike Hayes 2021 240 pages
4.22
777 ratings
Business
Leadership
Military Fiction
Two Sides of the Moon Summary
Two Sides of the Moon
Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
by David Randolph Scott 2004 448 pages
4.28
568 ratings
Space
History
Biography
Beyond Possible Summary
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks β€” My Life In The Death Zone
by Nimsdai Purja 2020 320 pages
4.16
5.2K ratings
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
The Wives Summary
The Wives
A Memoir
by Simone Gorrindo 2024 416 pages
3.77
7.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Military Fiction
Pass with Care Summary
Pass with Care
by Cooper Lee Bombardier 2020 240 pages
4.52
161 ratings
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Mentors Summary
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
by Russell Brand 2019 177 pages
3.68
2.4K ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
One Little Spark! Summary
One Little Spark!
Mickey's Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering
by Marty Sklar 2015
3.99
646 ratings
Business
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Fashion Is Freedom Summary
Fashion Is Freedom
A Girl from Tehran and Her Rise to the Runway
by Tala Raassi 2016 320 pages
3.49
138 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Fashion
Rowing the Atlantic Summary
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
by Roz Savage 2009 256 pages
4.02
444 ratings
Travel
Memoir
Sports
Sorcerer's Apprentice Summary
Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castaneda
by Amy Wallace 2003 448 pages
3.95
544 ratings
Biography
Memoir
New Age
Wild Comfort Summary
Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
by Kathleen Dean Moore 2010 256 pages
4.12
724 ratings
Nature
Memoir
Essays
Aussie Grit Summary
Aussie Grit
My Formula One Journey
by Mark Webber 2015 434 pages
4.03
2.4K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
In My Time of Dying Summary
In My Time of Dying
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
by Sebastian Junger 2024 176 pages
3.83
7.5K ratings
Memoir
Science
Biography
Measure of a Man Summary
Measure of a Man
From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
by Martin Greenfield 2014 250 pages
4.19
1.7K ratings
History
Biography
Holocaust
Adventure Capitalist Summary
Adventure Capitalist
The Ultimate Road Trip
by Jim Rogers 2003 392 pages
4.01
1.5K ratings
Travel
Business
Finance
Lost on Planet China Summary
Lost on Planet China
by J. Maarten Troost 2008 382 pages
3.77
11.9K ratings
Travel
China
Humor
The Gates of Gaza Summary
The Gates of Gaza
A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands
by Amir Tibon 2024 352 pages
4.68
890 ratings
Israel
History
Memoir
Yoga Girl Summary
Yoga Girl
by Rachel Brathen 2014 176 pages
4.19
4.1K ratings
Health
Memoir
Spirituality
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me Summary
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
A Memoir. . . of Sorts
by Ian Morgan Cron 2011 257 pages
4.08
2.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Christian
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages
4.19
76.7K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Classics
Diaries 1969-1979 Summary
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
by Michael Palin 2006 650 pages
4.02
3.4K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Tough Broad Summary
Tough Broad
From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
by Caroline Paul 2024 288 pages
4.17
408 ratings
Health
Memoir
Nature
Women Who Risk Summary
Women Who Risk
Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
by Tom Doyle 2021 240 pages
4.70
2.1K ratings
Christian
Biography
Faith
Home in the World Summary
Home in the World
A Memoir
by Amartya Sen 2021 480 pages
4.16
764 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Economics
A Life in Light Summary
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
by Mary Pipher 2022 302 pages
4.07
987 ratings
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
Life In The Uniform Summary
Life In The Uniform
Adventures of an IPS Officer in Bihar
by Amit Lodha 2021 308 pages
4.18
171 ratings
Memoir
Eating for Beginners Summary
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
by Melanie Rehak 2010 288 pages
3.62
281 ratings
Food
Cookbooks
Memoir
Disaster Preparedness Summary
Disaster Preparedness
A Memoir
by Heather Havrilesky 2010 256 pages
3.53
758 ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
The T in LGBT Summary
The T in LGBT
everything you need to know about being trans
by Jamie Raines 2023 256 pages
4.57
839 ratings
Queer
LGBT
Transgender
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2.9K ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl Summary
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
Loving the Skin You're In
by Tess Holliday 2017 304 pages
3.56
862 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
More Than the Tattooed Mormon Summary
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
by Al Carraway 2015 176 pages
4.23
2.7K ratings
Lds
Religion
Biography
Cooking as Fast as I Can Summary
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
by Cat Cora 2015 256 pages
3.55
701 ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
Human(kind) Summary
Human(kind)
How Reclaiming Human Worth and Embracing Radical Kindness Will Bring Us Back Together
by Ashlee Eiland 2020 224 pages
4.18
348 ratings
Christian
Memoir
Self Help
Restaurant Man Summary
Restaurant Man
by Joe Bastianich 2012 288 pages
3.66
1.4K ratings
Food
Memoir
Biography
Going Gray Summary
Going Gray
What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
by Anne Kreamer 2007 224 pages
3.35
1.1K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie Summary
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie
Being Muslim in America
by Ranya Tabari Idliby 2014 256 pages
3.47
200 ratings
Religion
Memoir
Islam
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Summary
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver 2007 370 pages
4.05
111.9K ratings
Food
Memoir
Book Club
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me Summary
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
by Rain Pryor 2006 224 pages
3.85
629 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Comedy
Let Your Mind Run Summary
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
by Deena Kastor 2018 286 pages
4.36
11.6K ratings
Memoir
Sports
Health
Truth in Our Times Summary
Truth in Our Times
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
by David E. McCraw 2019 304 pages
4.14
593 ratings
Politics
Journalism
Memoir
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