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Eat, Pray, Love Summary
Eat, Pray, Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2007 369 pages
3.63
1.7M+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson 2011 656 pages
4.16
1.2M+ ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
Into the Wild Summary
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer 2009 231 pages
4.01
1.1M+ ratings
Biography
Adventure
Classics
Becoming Summary
Becoming
by Michelle Obama 2018 448 pages
4.45
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Bossypants Summary
Bossypants
by Tina Fey 2011 283 pages
3.96
1M+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 2006 188 pages
4.37
700k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi 2016 231 pages
4.4
600k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
I Am Malala Summary
I Am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai 2013 328 pages
4.15
500k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Feminism
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance 2018 291 pages
3.86
400k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Elon Musk Summary
Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance 2015 400 pages
4.15
400k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Science
Spare Summary
Spare
by Prince Harry 2023 409 pages
3.86
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Summary
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb 2019 433 pages
4.38
300k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Self Help
Everything I Know About Love Summary
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton 2018 304 pages
4.01
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Romance
Self Help
Kitchen Confidential Summary
Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain 2008 321 pages
4.16
300k+ ratings
Food
Memoir
Biography
Shoe Dog Summary
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
by Phil Knight 2016 400 pages
4.47
300k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
On Writing Summary
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King 2000 288 pages
4.34
200k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Just Kids Summary
Just Kids
by Patti Smith 2010 318 pages
4.21
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X Summary
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X 1990 460 pages
4.36
200k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Can't Hurt Me Summary
Can't Hurt Me
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins 2018 366 pages
4.33
200k+ ratings
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Just Mercy Summary
Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson 2014 352 pages
4.63
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Social Justice
Race
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Summary
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman 2010 352 pages
4.27
200k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
Benjamin Franklin Summary
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
by Walter Isaacson 2004 586 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Biography
History
American History
Tiny Beautiful Things Summary
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed 2012 368 pages
4.17
100k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Essays
Born Standing Up Summary
Born Standing Up
by Steve Martin 2007 228 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Too Much and Never Enough Summary
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump 2020 240 pages
3.82
89k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
Memoir
An Unquiet Mind Summary
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison 2009 240 pages
4.06
79k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography
by Mahatma Gandhi 2001 480 pages
4.1
71k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Lab Girl Summary
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren 2016 304 pages
3.98
68k+ ratings
Science
Memoir
Biography
A House in the Sky Summary
A House in the Sky
A Memoir
by Amanda Lindhout 2013 385 pages
4.26
66k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Travel
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Summary
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
by Baek Se-hee 2022
3.29
57k+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Self Help
The Reason I Jump Summary
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
by Naoki Higashida 2013 176 pages
3.87
57k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
The Snowball Summary
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder 2008 852 pages
4.15
51k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Finance
My Story Summary
My Story
by Elizabeth Smart 2013 320 pages
3.87
44k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Finding Ultra Summary
Finding Ultra
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
by Rich Roll 2012 288 pages
4.02
24k+ ratings
Health
Sports
Biography
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 2001 401 pages
4.33
22k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Gifted Hands Summary
Gifted Hands
The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson 2011 249 pages
4.18
20k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Medical
Beyond Band of Brothers Summary
Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
by Dick Winters 2006 318 pages
4.31
18k+ ratings
History
Biography
World War II
iWoz Summary
iWoz
by Steve Wozniak 2006 330 pages
3.84
17k+ ratings
Biography
Technology
Business
Disrupted Summary
Disrupted
Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble
by Dan Lyons 2013 272 pages
3.91
16k+ ratings
Business
Memoir
Biography
Alex Ferguson Summary
Alex Ferguson
My Autobiography
by Alex Ferguson 2013 416 pages
3.94
16k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Football
Becoming Steve Jobs Summary
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender 2015 482 pages
4.14
16k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
Thinking in Pictures Summary
Thinking in Pictures
My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin 2008 306 pages
4.11
16k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
That Will Never Work Summary
That Will Never Work
The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
by Marc Randolph 2019 337 pages
4.22
14k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
Modern Love Summary
Modern Love
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
by Daniel Jones 2019 304 pages
4.2
12k+ ratings
Romance
Essays
Short Stories
The World As It Is Summary
The World As It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes 2018 428 pages
4.3
12k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Boys in the Trees Summary
Boys in the Trees
by Carly Simon 2015 384 pages
3.66
11k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Music
Start Something That Matters Summary
Start Something That Matters
by Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 pages
4.02
11k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Making Movies Summary
Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet 2010 242 pages
4.27
8k+ ratings
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Michael Jordan Summary
Michael Jordan
The Life
by Roland Lazenby 2014 632 pages
4.31
7k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Basketball
Meet the Frugalwoods Summary
Meet the Frugalwoods
Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 pages
3.75
6k+ ratings
Finance
Memoir
Personal Finance
A Man for All Markets Summary
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
by Edward O. Thorp 2017 416 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
Wizard Summary
Wizard
The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla
by Marc J. Seifer 2011 580 pages
3.72
6k+ ratings
Biography
Science
History
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree Summary
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
by Laura Hillman 2010 262 pages
4.15
5k+ ratings
Holocaust
History
Memoir
The Long Loneliness Summary
The Long Loneliness
The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
by Dorothy Day 1952 288 pages
4.02
5k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Stalling for Time Summary
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
by Gary Noesner 2010 240 pages
3.92
5k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
J. K. Rowling Summary
J. K. Rowling
The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
by Marc Shapiro 2014 290 pages
3.9
4k+ ratings
Biography
Biography Memoir
Childrens
The Bridge Summary
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick 2010 673 pages
4.1
4k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Cancer Journals Summary
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde 2006 104 pages
4.42
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Inferno Summary
Inferno
A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
by Catherine Cho 2020 245 pages
4.23
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
50/50 Summary
50/50
by Dean Karnazes 2009 333 pages
3.77
4k+ ratings
Sports
Memoir
Fitness
A Freewheelin' Time Summary
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by Suze Rotolo 2009 384 pages
3.82
3k+ ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 160 pages
3.67
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
What If This Were Enough? Summary
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
by Heather Havrilesky 2018 240 pages
3.65
3k+ ratings
Essays
Self Help
Memoir
A Gift of Hope Summary
A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
by Danielle Steel 2012 148 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
Romance
Memoir
Social Justice
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2012 334 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
Timothy Keller Summary
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
by Collin Hansen 2023 309 pages
4.57
2k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Theology
Only in Naples Summary
Only in Naples
Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
by Katherine Wilson 2016 304 pages
3.74
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Italy
Travel
Guitar Zero Summary
Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
by Gary F. Marcus 2012 286 pages
3.63
2k+ ratings
Music
Psychology
Memoir
Bad Habits Summary
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
by Jenny McCarthy 2012 240 pages
3.6
1k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Biography
Letters Summary
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Essays
Read Dangerously Summary
Read Dangerously
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
by Azar Nafisi 2022 225 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Books About Books
Essays
Politics
England's Mistress Summary
England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
by Kate Williams
3.88
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
British Literature
Black Magic Summary
Black Magic
The Tactics Black Leaders Learned from Traumatic and Triumphant Black Experiences
by Chad Sanders 2021 287 pages
4.34
100+ ratings
Race
Leadership
History
Mother Tongue Summary
Mother Tongue
My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
by Christine Gilbert 2016 333 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Language
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman Summary
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman, and Other Movie Heroes
by Vic Armstrong 2011 205 pages
3.68
100+ ratings
Biography
Film
Memoir
In Search of The Color Purple Summary
In Search of The Color Purple
The Story of an American Masterpiece
by Salamishah Tillet 2021 223 pages
4.27
100+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
Finding My Balance Summary
Finding My Balance
A Memoir
by Mariel Hemingway 2003 256 pages
3.47
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
What the Animals Taught Me Summary
What the Animals Taught Me
Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
by Stephanie Marohn 2012 192 pages
3.77
100+ ratings
Animals
Memoir
Nature
This Is Woman's Work Summary
This Is Woman's Work
Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves
by Dominique Christina 2015 192 pages
4.36
100+ ratings
Poetry
Feminism
Spirituality
Decolonial Daughter Summary
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
by Lesley-Ann Brown 2018 490 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Race
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of the Little Prince Summary
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of the Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
by Pierre Lassus 2017 198 pages
3.25
50+ ratings
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