Autobiography Book Summaries

Castaway Summary
Castaway
by Lucy Irvine 1983 288 pages
3.75
849 ratings
Travel
Biography
Memoir
Girl Walks into a Bar . . . Summary
Girl Walks into a Bar . . .
Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
by Rachel Dratch 2012 248 pages
3.62
26.4K ratings
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
Playing With Fire Summary
Playing With Fire
by Gordon Ramsay 2007 304 pages
3.51
935 ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Cooking
The Storyteller Summary
The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
by Dave Grohl 2021 384 pages
4.45
160.1K ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
The Secret Race Summary
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
by Tyler Hamilton 2012 290 pages
4.38
18.7K ratings
Sports
Cycling
Biography
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief Summary
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
by Bill Mason 2004 384 pages
3.86
1.0K ratings
Biography
True Crime
Crime
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pages
4.04
258 ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
Unbearable Lightness Summary
Unbearable Lightness
A Story of Loss and Gain
by Portia de Rossi 2010 320 pages
3.83
41.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Home in the World Summary
Home in the World
A Memoir
by Amartya Sen 2021 480 pages
4.16
764 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Economics
Barefoot to Billionaire Summary
Barefoot to Billionaire
by Jon M. Huntsman Sr. 2014
3.99
299 ratings
Biography
Business
Lds
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Summary
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
by Nick Flynn 2004 347 pages
3.80
11.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
Disaster Preparedness Summary
Disaster Preparedness
A Memoir
by Heather Havrilesky 2010 256 pages
3.53
758 ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
Let Me Tell You a Story Summary
Let Me Tell You a Story
A Lifetime in the Game
by Arnold Jacob Red Auerbach 2004 346 pages
4.12
1.9K ratings
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Play Nice But Win Summary
Play Nice But Win
A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
by Michael Dell 2021 336 pages
4.14
2.1K ratings
Business
Biography
Leadership
Jesus Land Summary
Jesus Land
A Memoir
by Julia Scheeres 2005 384 pages
3.97
19.4K ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Somewhere Towards the End Summary
Somewhere Towards the End
by Diana Athill 2008 182 pages
3.72
3.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Fate Is the Hunter Summary
Fate Is the Hunter
by Ernest K. Gann 1961 416 pages
4.56
3.1K ratings
Aviation
History
Biography
The Tin Ring Summary
The Tin Ring
How I Cheated Death
by Zdenka Fantlova 1996 228 pages
4.44
441 ratings
History
Holocaust
War
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Summary
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
by Mark Hodkinson 2022 368 pages
3.77
609 ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Prisoners of Hope Summary
Prisoners of Hope
The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan
by Dayna Curry 2002 320 pages
3.99
1.6K ratings
Biography
Christian
Memoir
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
Life Beyond Measure Summary
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
by Sidney Poitier 2008 285 pages
3.83
736 ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Flying Scotsman Summary
Flying Scotsman
Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours
by Graeme Obree 2003 244 pages
4.17
659 ratings
Cycling
Biography
Autobiography
Herbie Hancock Summary
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
by Herbie Hancock 2014 352 pages
4.22
1.5K ratings
Music
Biography
Jazz
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Summary
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass 1845 158 pages
4.12
131.0K ratings
History
Classics
Biography
Some Girls Summary
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren 2010 336 pages
3.35
8.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Diaries 1969-1979 Summary
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
by Michael Palin 2006 650 pages
4.02
3.4K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Summary
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
by Viv Albertine 2014 421 pages
4.29
12.9K ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
The Road Beneath My Feet Summary
The Road Beneath My Feet
by Frank Turner 2015 272 pages
4.22
1.6K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
What's It All About Summary
What's It All About
by Michael Caine 1992 466 pages
4.07
1.3K ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Blood & Oil Summary
Blood & Oil
A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
by Manucher Farmanfarmaian 1997 515 pages
3.99
154 ratings
Iran
History
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
The Most Beautiful Summary
The Most Beautiful
My Life with Prince
by Mayte Garcia 2017 304 pages
4.12
6.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Music
The Magnolia Story Summary
The Magnolia Story
by Chip Gaines 2016 217 pages
4.18
97.4K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Chris Hoy Summary
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
by Chris Hoy 2009 306 pages
4.07
349 ratings
Cycling
Biography
Sports
The Only Pirate at the Party Summary
The Only Pirate at the Party
by Lindsey Stirling 2016 262 pages
4.14
5.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Music
American Turnaround Summary
American Turnaround
Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA
by Edward E. Whitacre 2013 304 pages
3.86
227 ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Enough Summary
Enough
by Cassidy Hutchinson 2023 379 pages
4.30
17.9K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
The Electric Woman Summary
The Electric Woman
A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by Tessa Fontaine 2018 384 pages
3.91
1.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Growing Up Laughing Summary
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
by Marlo Thomas 2010 382 pages
3.85
1.9K ratings
Biography
Humor
Memoir
41-Love Summary
41-Love
by Scarlett Thomas 2022 384 pages
3.31
158 ratings
Memoir
Sports
Biography
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
Gardening for a Lifetime Summary
Gardening for a Lifetime
How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
by Sydney Eddison 2010 208 pages
3.74
267 ratings
Gardening
Nature
Self Help
Power Play Summary
Power Play
Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs
by Julia Banks 2021 256 pages
3.95
447 ratings
Politics
Feminism
Australia
Politics Summary
Politics
Between the Extremes
by Nick Clegg 2016 262 pages
3.73
1.1K ratings
Politics
Biography
Biography Memoir
Old Rage Summary
Old Rage
by Sheila Hancock 2022 272 pages
4.08
911 ratings
Memoir
Autobiography
Book Club
Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Summary
Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer
by Michael Mansfield 2009 512 pages
3.99
152 ratings
Law
Biography
Autobiography
All Things Wise and Wonderful Summary
All Things Wise and Wonderful
by James Herriot 1978 448 pages
4.45
36.8K ratings
Animals
Memoir
Biography
Natural Disaster Summary
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
by Ginger Zee 2017 288 pages
4.02
3.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
I, Steve Summary
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
by George Beahm 2011 160 pages
3.45
2.0K ratings
Biography
Business
Leadership
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