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
On Being Human
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Memoir
Self Help
Biography Memoir
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
A Beautiful Work In Progress
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Cartiers
The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
History
Biography
Fashion
Boyslut
A Memoir and Manifesto
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Ask a Pro
Deep Thoughts and Unreliable Advice from America’s Foremost Cycling Sage
Cycling
Sports
Memoir
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Biography
Memoir
Classics
On My Own
The Art of Being a Woman Alone
Self Help
Feminism
Womens
Carry On, Warrior
Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
Miss May Does Not Exist
The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Biography
Film
Biography Memoir
The Apprentice
My Life in the Kitchen
Food
Memoir
Biography
He Said, She Said
Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Raquel
Beyond the Cleavage
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Fight Back With Joy
Christian
Christian Living
Memoir
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Memoir
The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Anthropology
History
Africa
Growing Up Colt
A Father, a Son, a Life in Football
Biography
Sports
Football
The Melting Point
High Command and War in the 21st Century
Military Fiction
History
Memoir
Short Stories
The Autobiography of Columbus Short
Memoir
Autobiography
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Uh-oh
Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Politics
Memoir
Leadership
Between You & Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
Memoir
Writing
Language
Here Be Dragons
Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma
Memoir
Parenting
Christian
See A Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Music
Memoir
Biography
Audition
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
LET IT GO
The Entrepreneur Turned Ardent Philanthropist
Biography
Business
Memoir
Midnight in Mexico
A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
True Crime
Crime
History
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Humor
Politics
Essays
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
One Train Later
A Memoir
Music
Biography
Autobiography
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
History
Politics
True Crime
Facing the Lion
Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Africa
Memoir
Biography
How Do You Feel?
One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine
Memoir
Medicine
Medical
Good Book
The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Religion
Humor
History
Sound
A Story of Hearing Lost and Found
Memoir
Biography
Disability
Q's Legacy
A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
Not Forgotten
The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea
Memoir
Christian
Biography
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Rebel with a Clause
Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Language
Writing
Linguistics
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
The Way of the Explorer
An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
Science
Philosophy
Memoir
Talking to Heaven
A Medium's Message of Life After Death
Spirituality
Paranormal
Religion
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
The Kid
What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Memoir
LGBT
Humor
