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📜 Posthumous Memoirs

Autobiographical works published after the author's death, carrying the uncanny intimacy of a voice speaking from beyond its own ending.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers • 2000
Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.
3.69
184k+
🪦 Parental Loss🖤 Grief Memoir👬 Brothers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 89%
Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.
by Dave Eggers 2000
3.69
184k+ ratings
🪦 Parental Loss🖤 Grief Memoir👬 Brothers
Old Rage
by Sheila Hancock • 2022
Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.
4.06
984
🇬🇧 British Memoirs🎭 Celebrity Memoirs🗳️ Political Commentary
Old Rage Summary
Old Rage 88%
Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.
by Sheila Hancock 2022
4.06
984 ratings
🇬🇧 British Memoirs🎭 Celebrity Memoirs🗳️ Political Commentary
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov • 2000
A lost Russia reconstructed from butterfly wings, colored letters, and the dawn of consciousness.
4.08
18k+
📖 Literary Memoir🧳 Exile Literature👁️ Sensory Memory
Speak, Memory Summary
Speak, Memory 88%
A lost Russia reconstructed from butterfly wings, colored letters, and the dawn of consciousness.
by Vladimir Nabokov 2000
4.08
18k+ ratings
📖 Literary Memoir🧳 Exile Literature👁️ Sensory Memory
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
by Emily Dean • 2019
Her family was allergic to stability and dogs. When they died, she finally got one.
4.23
3k+
🪦 Grief Memoirs💔 Family Loss🛋️ Therapy Memoirs
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog Summary
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog 88%
Her family was allergic to stability and dogs. When they died, she finally got one.
by Emily Dean 2019
4.23
3k+ ratings
🪦 Grief Memoirs💔 Family Loss🛋️ Therapy Memoirs
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
by Penelope Lively • 2013
A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.
3.65
1k+
📖 Literary Memoir🏺 Material Memory📚 Reading Life
Dancing Fish and Ammonites Summary
Dancing Fish and Ammonites 88%
A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.
by Penelope Lively 2013
3.65
1k+ ratings
📖 Literary Memoir🏺 Material Memory📚 Reading Life
The Words
by Jean-Paul Sartre • 1963
Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.
3.73
10k+
🧠 Existentialist Memoir📖 Philosophical Memoir🇫🇷 French Existentialism
The Words Summary
The Words 88%
Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1963
3.73
10k+ ratings
🧠 Existentialist Memoir📖 Philosophical Memoir🇫🇷 French Existentialism
Somewhere Towards the End
by Diana Athill • 2008
At 89 she stops pretending, faces death without God, and finds the view unexpectedly good.
3.72
3k+
📖 Literary Memoir⏳ Aging And Mortality👩 Women'S Lives
Somewhere Towards the End Summary
Somewhere Towards the End 88%
At 89 she stops pretending, faces death without God, and finds the view unexpectedly good.
by Diana Athill 2008
3.72
3k+ ratings
📖 Literary Memoir⏳ Aging And Mortality👩 Women'S Lives
Libro dell'acqua
by Eduard Limonov • 2003
At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.
3.56
259
📖 Autofiction🖤 Transgressive Literature🇷🇺 Russian Memoir
Libro dell'acqua Summary
Libro dell'acqua 88%
At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.
by Eduard Limonov 2003
3.56
259 ratings
📖 Autofiction🖤 Transgressive Literature🇷🇺 Russian Memoir
In the Land of Pain
by Alphonse Daudet • 1929
Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.
3.68
597
🏥 Chronic Illness✍️ Literary Memoir📖 Illness Narrative
In the Land of Pain Summary
In the Land of Pain 88%
Pain resists words. A dying novelist splits himself: half suffers, the other half watches.
by Alphonse Daudet 1929
3.68
597 ratings
🏥 Chronic Illness✍️ Literary Memoir📖 Illness Narrative
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
by Madeleine L'Engle • 1974
One summer, her ninety-year-old mother forgot her. Four generations in one house. No one was ready.
4.16
3k+
🏠 Family Memoir🙏 Spiritual Memoir👵 Aging Parents
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother Summary
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother 88%
One summer, her ninety-year-old mother forgot her. Four generations in one house. No one was ready.
by Madeleine L'Engle 1974
4.16
3k+ ratings
🏠 Family Memoir🙏 Spiritual Memoir👵 Aging Parents
Highcastle
by Stanisław Lem • 1966
Before the science fiction, Stanisław Lem ran an imaginary bureaucracy that authorized regicide.
3.65
635
🧒 Childhood Memoir✍️ Literary Memoir🎭 Imagination And Play
Highcastle Summary
Highcastle 88%
Before the science fiction, Stanisław Lem ran an imaginary bureaucracy that authorized regicide.
by Stanisław Lem 1966
3.65
635 ratings
🧒 Childhood Memoir✍️ Literary Memoir🎭 Imagination And Play
Q's Legacy
by Helene Hanff • 1985
A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.
4.05
2k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🎓 Self-Education
Q's Legacy Summary
Q's Legacy 88%
A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.
by Helene Hanff 1985
4.05
2k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🎓 Self-Education
Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain • 2010
Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.
3.80
9k+
🖋️ Literary Lives🇺🇸 American Authors✍️ Author Memoirs
Autobiography of Mark Twain Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain 88%
Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.
by Mark Twain 2010
3.80
9k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Lives🇺🇸 American Authors✍️ Author Memoirs
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2012
The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.
4.09
2k+
📜 Literary Correspondence🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers🪖 World War Ii Memoir
Letters Summary
Letters 87%
The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012
4.09
2k+ ratings
📜 Literary Correspondence🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers🪖 World War Ii Memoir
A Widow's Story
by Joyce Carol Oates • 2011
Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.
3.76
4k+
🖤 Spousal Loss📖 Bereavement Memoir⚡ Sudden Death
A Widow's Story Summary
A Widow's Story 87%
Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.
by Joyce Carol Oates 2011
3.76
4k+ ratings
🖤 Spousal Loss📖 Bereavement Memoir⚡ Sudden Death
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li • 2025
The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.
4.34
15k+
👼 Child Loss🖤 Suicide Loss🌀 Grief Without Closure
Things in Nature Merely Grow Summary
Things in Nature Merely Grow 87%
The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.
by Yiyun Li 2025
4.34
15k+ ratings
👼 Child Loss🖤 Suicide Loss🌀 Grief Without Closure
Pour Me, A Life
by A.A. Gill • 2014
Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.
4.08
3k+
🍷 Addiction Recovery🍽️ Restaurant Criticism📰 New Journalism
Pour Me, A Life Summary
Pour Me, A Life 87%
Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.
by A.A. Gill 2014
4.08
3k+ ratings
🍷 Addiction Recovery🍽️ Restaurant Criticism📰 New Journalism
A Heart That Works
by Rob Delaney • 2022
Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.
4.62
35k+
🕯️ Child Loss💔 Parental Grief🏥 Medical Memoir
A Heart That Works Summary
A Heart That Works 87%
Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.
by Rob Delaney 2022
4.62
35k+ ratings
🕯️ Child Loss💔 Parental Grief🏥 Medical Memoir
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion • 2005
Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.
3.93
308k+
🪦 Grief Memoir📖 Literary Memoir💔 Sudden Loss
The Year of Magical Thinking Summary
The Year of Magical Thinking 87%
Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.
by Joan Didion 2005
3.93
308k+ ratings
🪦 Grief Memoir📖 Literary Memoir💔 Sudden Loss
The Chief
by Lance Morrow • 1985
A father bows to Rockefeller. His journalist son cannot look away.
3.45
11
👨‍👦 Father-Son Memoir📰 Journalism Memoir✍️ Literary Memoir
The Chief Summary
The Chief 87%
A father bows to Rockefeller. His journalist son cannot look away.
by Lance Morrow 1985
3.45
11 ratings
👨‍👦 Father-Son Memoir📰 Journalism Memoir✍️ Literary Memoir
When We Were the Kennedys
by Monica Wood • 2012
A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.
3.93
8k+
🧒 Childhood Memoir🕊️ Parental Loss☮️ 1960s America
When We Were the Kennedys Summary
When We Were the Kennedys 87%
A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.
by Monica Wood 2012
3.93
8k+ ratings
🧒 Childhood Memoir🕊️ Parental Loss☮️ 1960s America
84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff • 1970
One book order to London begins a twenty-year transatlantic friendship told entirely in letters.
4.17
99k+
✉️ Epistolary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🏪 Booksellers
84, Charing Cross Road Summary
84, Charing Cross Road 87%
One book order to London begins a twenty-year transatlantic friendship told entirely in letters.
by Helene Hanff 1970
4.17
99k+ ratings
✉️ Epistolary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🏪 Booksellers
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
by Nick Flynn • 2004
His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.
3.80
12k+
👤 Absent Fathers🏚️ Homelessness In America🍷 Addiction And Family
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Summary
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 87%
His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.
by Nick Flynn 2004
3.80
12k+ ratings
👤 Absent Fathers🏚️ Homelessness In America🍷 Addiction And Family
The Princess Diarist
by Carrie Fisher • 2016
She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.
3.70
92k+
🎬 Hollywood Memoir😂 Comic Memoir🌟 Fame And Identity
The Princess Diarist Summary
The Princess Diarist 87%
She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.
by Carrie Fisher 2016
3.70
92k+ ratings
🎬 Hollywood Memoir😂 Comic Memoir🌟 Fame And Identity
The Little Locksmith
by Katharine Butler Hathaway • 1943
A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.
3.67
1k+
🩻 Disability Memoir✍️ Writing Life🦴 Embodied Difference
The Little Locksmith Summary
The Little Locksmith 87%
A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.
by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943
3.67
1k+ ratings
🩻 Disability Memoir✍️ Writing Life🦴 Embodied Difference
Mother American Night
by John Perry Barlow • 2018
Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.
4.18
760
🌵 Countercultural Memoir🎸 Grateful Dead🔐 Digital Rights
Mother American Night Summary
Mother American Night 87%
Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.
by John Perry Barlow 2018
4.18
760 ratings
🌵 Countercultural Memoir🎸 Grateful Dead🔐 Digital Rights
Martes con Mi Viejo Profesor
by Micht Albom • 2013
Un profesor se muere. Durante meses le enseña a su antiguo alumno lo esencial para vivir.
4.10
29
🏥 Illness Memoir🕊️ End-Of-Life Wisdom🤝 Humanistic Philosophy
Martes con Mi Viejo Profesor Summary
Martes con Mi Viejo Profesor 87%
Un profesor se muere. Durante meses le enseña a su antiguo alumno lo esencial para vivir.
by Micht Albom 2013
4.10
29 ratings
🏥 Illness Memoir🕊️ End-Of-Life Wisdom🤝 Humanistic Philosophy
Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley • 2024
A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.
3.83
18k+
💔 Suicide Loss👥 Friendship Grief📿 Objects And Memory
Grief Is for People Summary
Grief Is for People 87%
A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.
by Sloane Crosley 2024
3.83
18k+ ratings
💔 Suicide Loss👥 Friendship Grief📿 Objects And Memory
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
by Stuart Ross • 2022
A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.
3.84
189
🖋️ Poetic Memoir🕯️ Grief Memoir🛡️ Emotional Avoidance
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers Summary
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers 87%
A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.
by Stuart Ross 2022
3.84
189 ratings
🖋️ Poetic Memoir🕯️ Grief Memoir🛡️ Emotional Avoidance
A Matter of Death and Life
by Irvin D. Yalom • 2021
A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.
4.40
10k+
🪦 Grief Memoir🛋️ Existential Therapy💀 Death Acceptance
A Matter of Death and Life Summary
A Matter of Death and Life 87%
A dying woman and her psychiatrist husband trade chapters. When her voice stops, his grief begins.
by Irvin D. Yalom 2021
4.40
10k+ ratings
🪦 Grief Memoir🛋️ Existential Therapy💀 Death Acceptance
Earth to Moon
by Moon Unit Zappa • 2024
She called her rock star father Frank. Her mother brought the chaos. Becoming herself took decades.
4.20
3k+
🎬 Celebrity Childhood🎨 Bohemian Childhood👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds
Earth to Moon Summary
Earth to Moon 87%
She called her rock star father Frank. Her mother brought the chaos. Becoming herself took decades.
by Moon Unit Zappa 2024
4.20
3k+ ratings
🎬 Celebrity Childhood🎨 Bohemian Childhood👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie • 1977
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
4.13
13k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography 87%
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
by Agatha Christie 1977
4.13
13k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
Promise Me, Dad
by Joe Biden • 2017
A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.
4.14
24k+
🏛️ White House Memoirs🕯️ Parental Grief🎗️ Cancer Memoir
Promise Me, Dad Summary
Promise Me, Dad 87%
A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.
by Joe Biden 2017
4.14
24k+ ratings
🏛️ White House Memoirs🕯️ Parental Grief🎗️ Cancer Memoir
The Facts
by Philip Roth • 1988
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
3.70
1k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir✍️ Writers On Writing✡️ Jewish Identity
The Facts Summary
The Facts 87%
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
by Philip Roth 1988
3.70
1k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir✍️ Writers On Writing✡️ Jewish Identity
A Class of Their Own
by Matthew Hammett Knott • 2022
The children had private jets. They needed a Cambridge graduate to do their homework.
3.61
376
🎓 Elite Education💰 Wealth Inequality👔 Class Memoir
A Class of Their Own Summary
A Class of Their Own 87%
The children had private jets. They needed a Cambridge graduate to do their homework.
by Matthew Hammett Knott 2022
3.61
376 ratings
🎓 Elite Education💰 Wealth Inequality👔 Class Memoir
Did I Ever Tell You?
by Genevieve Kingston • 2024
Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.
4.29
6k+
🕯️ Grief Memoir🥀 Loss Of A Mother🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond
Did I Ever Tell You? Summary
Did I Ever Tell You? 87%
Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.
by Genevieve Kingston 2024
4.29
6k+ ratings
🕯️ Grief Memoir🥀 Loss Of A Mother🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond
Three Weeks with My Brother
by Nicholas Sparks • 2004
Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.
4.05
51k+
🏠 Family Memoir💔 Grief Memoir👬 Brotherhood
Three Weeks with My Brother Summary
Three Weeks with My Brother 87%
Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.
by Nicholas Sparks 2004
4.05
51k+ ratings
🏠 Family Memoir💔 Grief Memoir👬 Brotherhood
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
by Bob Odenkirk • 2022
From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.
3.60
13k+
🎭 Sketch Comedy🎬 Hollywood Memoir📝 Tv Writing
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Summary
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 87%
From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.
by Bob Odenkirk 2022
3.60
13k+ ratings
🎭 Sketch Comedy🎬 Hollywood Memoir📝 Tv Writing
I Must Say
by Martin Short • 2014
Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.
4.12
19k+
🎙️ Comedy Memoirs🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy🕊️ Grief And Loss
I Must Say Summary
I Must Say 87%
Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.
by Martin Short 2014
4.12
19k+ ratings
🎙️ Comedy Memoirs🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy🕊️ Grief And Loss
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein • 1933
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
3.54
14k+
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 87%
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
by Gertrude Stein 1933
3.54
14k+ ratings
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
Growing Up Laughing
by Marlo Thomas • 2010
Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.
3.85
2k+
🌟 Celebrity Memoir🎭 Comedy History🎬 Hollywood Memoir
Growing Up Laughing Summary
Growing Up Laughing 87%
Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.
by Marlo Thomas 2010
3.85
2k+ ratings
🌟 Celebrity Memoir🎭 Comedy History🎬 Hollywood Memoir
Istanbul
by Orhan Pamuk • 2003
An artist's soul forged in a city of ruins: Pamuk's Istanbul memoir of black-and-white melancholy.
3.82
22k+
🗺️ Psychogeography🏙️ Urban Melancholy📜 Ottoman History
Istanbul Summary
Istanbul 87%
An artist's soul forged in a city of ruins: Pamuk's Istanbul memoir of black-and-white melancholy.
by Orhan Pamuk 2003
3.82
22k+ ratings
🗺️ Psychogeography🏙️ Urban Melancholy📜 Ottoman History
Dead End Gene Pool
by Wendy Burden • 2010
110 rooms, a Vanderbilt name, and three generations who drank their way through the inheritance.
3.30
2k+
🏛️ Gilded Age Dynasties🇺🇸 American Aristocracy💔 Dysfunctional Families
Dead End Gene Pool Summary
Dead End Gene Pool 87%
110 rooms, a Vanderbilt name, and three generations who drank their way through the inheritance.
by Wendy Burden 2010
3.30
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Gilded Age Dynasties🇺🇸 American Aristocracy💔 Dysfunctional Families
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by Caitlin Doughty • 2014
A crematory trainee discovers the dead aren't the scary part; the funeral industry is.
4.22
110k+
💀 Death Acceptance⚱️ Funeral Industry🌿 Natural Burial
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Summary
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 87%
A crematory trainee discovers the dead aren't the scary part; the funeral industry is.
by Caitlin Doughty 2014
4.22
110k+ ratings
💀 Death Acceptance⚱️ Funeral Industry🌿 Natural Burial
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow • 2025
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
4.18
8k+
📖 Literary Biography🏛️ Gilded Age America💔 Grief And Loss
Mark Twain Summary
Mark Twain 87%
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
by Ron Chernow 2025
4.18
8k+ ratings
📖 Literary Biography🏛️ Gilded Age America💔 Grief And Loss
My Invented Country
by Isabel Allende • 2003
When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.
3.89
13k+
🏞️ Travel Memoir🛅 Exile Memoir🇨🇱 Chilean Culture
My Invented Country Summary
My Invented Country 87%
When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.
by Isabel Allende 2003
3.89
13k+ ratings
🏞️ Travel Memoir🛅 Exile Memoir🇨🇱 Chilean Culture
The Year of Reading Dangerously
by Andy Miller • 2012
One secret list, fifty classics, and a year spent reading them between diapers and deadlines.
3.31
6k+
🧾 Reading Memoirs🕰️ Midlife Reflection😳 Reading Guilt
The Year of Reading Dangerously Summary
The Year of Reading Dangerously 87%
One secret list, fifty classics, and a year spent reading them between diapers and deadlines.
by Andy Miller 2012
3.31
6k+ ratings
🧾 Reading Memoirs🕰️ Midlife Reflection😳 Reading Guilt
Nothing Holds Back the Night
by Delphine de Vigan • 2011
After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.
4.35
25k+
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir📖 Family Biography🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma
Nothing Holds Back the Night Summary
Nothing Holds Back the Night 87%
After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.
by Delphine de Vigan 2011
4.35
25k+ ratings
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir📖 Family Biography🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi • 2016
Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.
4.41
820k+
🩻 Terminal Illness🩺 Medical Memoir🎗️ Cancer Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air 87%
Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.
by Paul Kalanithi 2016
4.41
820k+ ratings
🩻 Terminal Illness🩺 Medical Memoir🎗️ Cancer Memoir
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man
by Ivan Turgenev • 1850
A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.
3.84
4k+
📜 Russian Classic📔 Confessional Diary💔 Unrequited Love
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man Summary
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A dying nobleman chronicles a life of watching, never daring, forever unnecessary.
by Ivan Turgenev 1850
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📜 Russian Classic📔 Confessional Diary💔 Unrequited Love
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