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Iran Awakening Summary
Iran Awakening
A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi 2006 232 pages
4.17
5.6K ratings
Iran
Memoir
History
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 153 pages
3.66
3.8K ratings
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
The Road to Character Summary
The Road to Character
by David Brooks 2015 320 pages
3.65
25.7K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Half Broke Horses Summary
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls 2009 272 pages
4.09
170.0K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Down the Rabbit Hole Summary
Down the Rabbit Hole
Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
by Holly Madison 2015 352 pages
3.56
49.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Living with a SEAL Summary
Living with a SEAL
31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
by Jesse Itzler 2015 272 pages
4.29
20.3K ratings
Self Help
Biography
Health
Alibaba Summary
Alibaba
The House That Jack Ma Built
by Duncan Clark 2016 304 pages
3.87
16.2K ratings
Business
Biography
China
The Tycoons Summary
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
by Charles R. Morris 2005 400 pages
3.74
2.1K ratings
History
Biography
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Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body Summary
Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body
by Bruce Lee 1998 256 pages
4.25
1.5K ratings
Martial Arts
Fitness
Philosophy
How Proust Can Change Your Life Summary
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton 1998 208 pages
3.76
18.2K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
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How to Be Rich Summary
How to Be Rich
by J. Paul Getty 1965 224 pages
4.06
976 ratings
Business
Finance
Money
Just for Fun Summary
Just for Fun
The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds 2001 288 pages
3.96
4.7K ratings
Biography
Technology
Computer Science
Walden or, Life in the Woods Summary
Walden or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau 1854 352 pages
3.78
199.1K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Nature
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Summary
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
by Matthew Perry 2022 250 pages
3.93
357.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Diana Summary
Diana
Her True Story in Her Own Words
by Andrew Morton 1993 432 pages
3.84
28.3K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Pour Your Heart Into It Summary
Pour Your Heart Into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
by Howard Schultz 1997 351 pages
4.02
12.2K ratings
Business
Biography
Leadership
Making It So Summary
Making It So
by Patrick Stewart 2023 469 pages
4.30
17.8K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
My Life Summary
My Life
An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2015 122 pages
4.60
2.7K ratings
Biography
Autobiography
India
Without Their Permission Summary
Without Their Permission
How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
by Alexis Ohanian 2013 272 pages
3.70
2.0K ratings
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Playing It My Way Summary
Playing It My Way
My Autobiography
by Sachin Tendulkar 2014 486 pages
3.94
10.9K ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor Summary
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
by Donald J. Robertson 2019 304 pages
4.35
13.8K ratings
Philosophy
History
Psychology
The Billion Dollar Spy Summary
The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by David E. Hoffman 2015 336 pages
4.23
15.2K ratings
History
Espionage
Russia
The Sun Does Shine Summary
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton 2018 272 pages
4.65
73.2K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Burn Book Summary
Burn Book
A Tech Love Story
by Kara Swisher 2024 320 pages
3.95
13.5K ratings
Memoir
Technology
Business
Tantric Quest Summary
Tantric Quest
An Encounter with Absolute Love
by Daniel Odier 1992 192 pages
4.20
406 ratings
Spirituality
Sexuality
Hinduism
India Wins Freedom Summary
India Wins Freedom
The Complete Version
by Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
History
India
Politics
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou 1987 192 pages
4.09
33.5K ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
Muhammad Summary
Muhammad
A Biography of the Prophet
by Karen Armstrong 1991 290 pages
4.19
7.0K ratings
Religion
Islam
History
Red Notice Summary
Red Notice
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder 2015 380 pages
4.44
102.6K ratings
History
Politics
Russia
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Summary
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
by Lori Arviso Alvord 1999 205 pages
4.01
1.3K ratings
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Charlie Munger Summary
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor
by Tren Griffin 2015 224 pages
3.98
3.2K ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
Timothy Keller Summary
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
by Collin Hansen 2023 320 pages
4.55
2.7K ratings
Biography
Christian
Theology
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come Summary
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
by Jessica Pan 2019 368 pages
3.88
25.7K ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
Bad Boy Summary
Bad Boy
A Memoir
by Walter Dean Myers 2001 214 pages
3.73
3.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
African American
Letters Summary
Letters
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 pages
4.08
1.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Ten Days in a Mad-House Summary
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly 1887 92 pages
3.86
22.6K ratings
History
Classics
Psychology
The Art of Intelligence Summary
The Art of Intelligence
by Henry A. Crumpton 2012 11 pages
3.84
3.1K ratings
History
Espionage
Politics
Aleister Crowley Summary
Aleister Crowley
Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World
by Gary Lachman 2014 400 pages
3.42
560 ratings
Biography
Occult
History
A Primate's Memoir Summary
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky 2001 304 pages
4.39
8.5K ratings
Science
Memoir
Animals
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Summary
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis 1998 464 pages
4.28
1.7K ratings
Music
Feminism
History
My Left Foot Summary
My Left Foot
by Christy Brown 1954 184 pages
4.05
8.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Disability
The Words Summary
The Words
The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 256 pages
3.74
9.9K ratings
Philosophy
France
Biography
The Contrarian Summary
The Contrarian
Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin 2021 400 pages
3.60
2.1K ratings
Business
Biography
Politics
Troublemakers Summary
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
by Leslie Berlin 2017 512 pages
4.09
748 ratings
History
Technology
Business
Above the Line Summary
Above the Line
Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season
by Urban Meyer 2015
4.15
2.6K ratings
Leadership
Sports
Biography
The Accidental Billionaires Summary
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
by Ben Mezrich 2009 255 pages
3.59
16.9K ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
The Unpublished David Ogilvy Summary
The Unpublished David Ogilvy
by David Ogilvy 1987 178 pages
4.14
522 ratings
Business
Biography
Writing
Tesla Summary
Tesla
Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney 1981 400 pages
3.70
6.5K ratings
Biography
Science
History
Committed Summary
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2009 285 pages
3.45
55.6K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
Good Profit Summary
Good Profit
How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
by Charles G. Koch 2015
3.87
1.6K ratings
Business
Economics
Leadership
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