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
Careless People
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Memoir
Technology
Business
A Piece of Blue Sky
Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Religion
Cults
History
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
Politics
History
Memoir
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
Twelve Years a Slave
History
Classics
Biography
Perfectly Queer
Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet
LGBT
Queer
Memoir
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Up from Slavery
History
Biography
Classics
Oh Sh*t, I Almost Killed You! A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You
Medical
Nursing
Health
I Can Fix This
And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child
Parenting
Memoir
Mental Health
Tweak
Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Sybil
The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Psychology
Biography
Mental Health
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Travel
History
Politics
The Wellness Project
How I Learned to Do Right by My Body, Without Giving Up My Life
Health
Self Help
Memoir
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Biography
Politics
History
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Politics
Memoir
Leadership
Managing Up
How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You
Business
Leadership
Management
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
The Songlines
Travel
Australia
History
The Emergency
A Personal History
India
History
Politics
Sovietistan
Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Travel
History
Russia
All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Memoir
History
Biography
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
Good Book
The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Religion
Humor
History
Why I Cook
Memoir
Food
Cookbooks
World Travel
An Irreverent Guide
Travel
Food
Memoir
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
I'd Rather Be Reading
The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Books About Books
Essays
Memoir
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
Courage to Soar
A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Ghost Hunting
True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Paranormal
Ghosts
Supernatural
The Way of the Explorer
An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
Science
Philosophy
Memoir
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
What I Ate in One Year
Memoir
Food
Biography
The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
History
Biography
War
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
I Didn't Know I Needed This
The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Self Help
Memoir
Romance
Rebel With A Clause
Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Language
Writing
Linguistics
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
Memoir
Music
Biography
A Century Is Not Enough
My Roller-coaster Ride to Success
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised
A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Sports
Memoir
Basketball
