Best Memoir Books | Summaries & Audio

Memoir Book Summaries

Spirit Run

by Noé Álvarez • 2020

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

3.50

4k+

🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

Spirit Run

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

by Noé Álvarez 2020 218 pages

3.50

4k+ ratings

🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

by John Wood • 2006

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

4.10

4k+

🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

by John Wood 2006 272 pages

4.10

4k+ ratings

🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

The Day God Saw Me as Black

by D. Danyelle Thomas • 2024

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

4.41

469

📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

The Day God Saw Me as Black

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

by D. Danyelle Thomas 2024 240 pages

4.41

469 ratings

📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

by Bill Bryson • 2006

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

3.94

68k+

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

by Bill Bryson 2006 288 pages

3.94

68k+ ratings

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

Writing My Wrongs

by Shaka Senghor • 2013

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

4.25

5k+

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

Writing My Wrongs

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

by Shaka Senghor 2013 268 pages

4.25

5k+ ratings

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

The Complete Memoirs

by Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

4.16

4k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

by Pablo Neruda 1974 498 pages

4.16

4k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

by Stephen W. Hawking • 1993

Black holes are not black, imaginary time behaves like space, and everything is determined.

4.18

18k+

🌌 Cosmology ⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕳️ Black Holes 🔗 Quantum Gravity 📝 Science Essays

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Black holes are not black, imaginary time behaves like space, and everything is determined.

by Stephen W. Hawking 1993 182 pages

4.18

18k+ ratings

🌌 Cosmology ⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕳️ Black Holes 🔗 Quantum Gravity 📝 Science Essays

It's About Damn Time

by Arlan Hamilton • 2020

The outsider's playbook for turning low expectations into a venture capital firm and a movement.

4.19

1k+

🏦 Venture Capital 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🤝 Strategic Networking 🔄 Personal Reinvention 🌐 Diversity In Tech

It's About Damn Time

The outsider's playbook for turning low expectations into a venture capital firm and a movement.

by Arlan Hamilton 2020 224 pages

4.19

1k+ ratings

🏦 Venture Capital 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🤝 Strategic Networking 🔄 Personal Reinvention 🌐 Diversity In Tech

Red Paint

by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe • 2022

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

4.12

2k+

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

Red Paint

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2022 240 pages

4.12

2k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

by Robert Fulghum • 1989

Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.

4.10

6k+

✍️ Personal Essays 😂 Observational Humor 🌟 Everyday Wonder 💖 Embracing Imperfection 🧠 Practical Philosophy

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

Life is a burning bed, a child's paper sack, and a mirror fragment reflecting light.

by Robert Fulghum 1989 218 pages

4.10

6k+ ratings

✍️ Personal Essays 😂 Observational Humor 🌟 Everyday Wonder 💖 Embracing Imperfection 🧠 Practical Philosophy

More Than Enough

by Elaine Welteroth • 2019

From mixed-race outsider to Teen Vogue editor: claiming space in rooms not built for you.

4.38

10k+

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 📰 Media Careers 🎟️ Workplace Tokenism 👩🏾‍🎤 Black Women In Media 🗣️ Self-Advocacy

More Than Enough

From mixed-race outsider to Teen Vogue editor: claiming space in rooms not built for you.

by Elaine Welteroth 2019 336 pages

4.38

10k+ ratings

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 📰 Media Careers 🎟️ Workplace Tokenism 👩🏾‍🎤 Black Women In Media 🗣️ Self-Advocacy

The Orbital Perspective

by Ron Garan • 2015

An astronaut's 71-million-mile view shows Earth borderless, and a plan for fixing global problems.

3.80

205

🪐 Overview Effect 🔗 Systems Thinking 🌐 Global Cooperation 👥 Crowdsourcing 📊 Open Data

The Orbital Perspective

An astronaut's 71-million-mile view shows Earth borderless, and a plan for fixing global problems.

by Ron Garan 2015 208 pages

3.80

205 ratings

🪐 Overview Effect 🔗 Systems Thinking 🌐 Global Cooperation 👥 Crowdsourcing 📊 Open Data

A Jane Austen Education

by William Deresiewicz • 2011

What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.

3.84

4k+

🏛️ Jane Austen 📚 Books About Books ✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Bibliotherapy 🌱 Coming Of Age

A Jane Austen Education

What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.

by William Deresiewicz 2011 255 pages

3.84

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Jane Austen 📚 Books About Books ✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Bibliotherapy 🌱 Coming Of Age

Hard Work

by Roy Williams • 2009

An alcoholic father. Selling calendars to get by. Then Dean Smith called. Roy Williams' full climb.

4.18

500+

📋 Coaching Memoirs 💪 Overcoming Adversity 🤝 Team Culture 🎓 Mentorship 🏆 Sports Leadership

Hard Work

An alcoholic father. Selling calendars to get by. Then Dean Smith called. Roy Williams' full climb.

by Roy Williams 2009 336 pages

4.18

500+ ratings

📋 Coaching Memoirs 💪 Overcoming Adversity 🤝 Team Culture 🎓 Mentorship 🏆 Sports Leadership

Orphan Bachelors

by Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

3.91

238

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Orphan Bachelors

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

by Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 pages

3.91

238 ratings

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

And How Does That Make You Feel?

by Joshua Fletcher • 2024

Inside the room: anxiety is a false alarm, your therapist is a person, and connection is the cure.

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4k+

🛋️ Therapy Demystified 😰 Anxiety Disorders 😱 Panic Attacks 💭 Intrusive Thoughts 🔁 Ocd Treatment

And How Does That Make You Feel?

Inside the room: anxiety is a false alarm, your therapist is a person, and connection is the cure.

by Joshua Fletcher 2024 320 pages

4.16

4k+ ratings

🛋️ Therapy Demystified 😰 Anxiety Disorders 😱 Panic Attacks 💭 Intrusive Thoughts 🔁 Ocd Treatment

Lipstick Jihad

by Azadeh Moaveni • 2005

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

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4k+

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities 👩 Women In Iran 🎤 Foreign Correspondence

Lipstick Jihad

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

by Azadeh Moaveni 2005 272 pages

3.70

4k+ ratings

🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities 👩 Women In Iran 🎤 Foreign Correspondence

Make Your Own Rules

by Andrew Huang • 2024

A working creator's guide to making a living from art without burning out or selling out.

4.27

319

🎨 Creative Careers 💼 Creative Entrepreneurship 🎯 Redefining Success 💰 Revenue Diversification 🧘 Burnout Recovery

Make Your Own Rules

A working creator's guide to making a living from art without burning out or selling out.

by Andrew Huang 2024 320 pages

4.27

319 ratings

🎨 Creative Careers 💼 Creative Entrepreneurship 🎯 Redefining Success 💰 Revenue Diversification 🧘 Burnout Recovery

Julie and Julia

by Julie Powell • 2005

A secretary bets a year on 524 French recipes, a tiny kitchen, and a tell-all blog.

3.71

100k+

🍳 Culinary Memoir 🎪 Stunt Memoir 💻 Blogger Memoir 🧭 Quarterlife Crisis 👯 Female Friendship

Julie and Julia

A secretary bets a year on 524 French recipes, a tiny kitchen, and a tell-all blog.

by Julie Powell 2005 310 pages

3.71

100k+ ratings

🍳 Culinary Memoir 🎪 Stunt Memoir 💻 Blogger Memoir 🧭 Quarterlife Crisis 👯 Female Friendship

Red Roulette

by Desmond Shum • 2021

From poverty to billions, she partnered with premiers. Then Beijing made her vanish.

3.91

6k+

🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Authoritarian Regimes 🔗 Elite Networks ✍️ Dissident Memoir

Red Roulette

From poverty to billions, she partnered with premiers. Then Beijing made her vanish.

by Desmond Shum 2021

3.91

6k+ ratings

🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Authoritarian Regimes 🔗 Elite Networks ✍️ Dissident Memoir

The Year Without Pants

by Scott Berkun • 2013

From Microsoft to a pants-optional company: what a year without an office teaches about work.

3.81

2k+

📡 Remote Work 🏢 Organizational Culture 💬 Asynchronous Communication 🎯 Results-Only Work Environment 🚀 Continuous Deployment

The Year Without Pants

From Microsoft to a pants-optional company: what a year without an office teaches about work.

by Scott Berkun 2013 258 pages

3.81

2k+ ratings

📡 Remote Work 🏢 Organizational Culture 💬 Asynchronous Communication 🎯 Results-Only Work Environment 🚀 Continuous Deployment

We're Going to Need More Wine

by Gabrielle Union • 2017

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

4.19

37k+

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching 🙏 Survivor Stories 🩹 Trauma Healing

We're Going to Need More Wine

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

by Gabrielle Union 2017 272 pages

4.19

37k+ ratings

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching 🙏 Survivor Stories 🩹 Trauma Healing

The Way of the Champion

by Paul Rabil • 2024

A lacrosse icon's playbook for building a championship life, not just a championship season.

4.15

362

🧠 Sports Psychology 🏆 Championship Mindset 📅 Daily Discipline 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🥅 Goal Setting

The Way of the Champion

A lacrosse icon's playbook for building a championship life, not just a championship season.

by Paul Rabil 2024 256 pages

4.15

362 ratings

🧠 Sports Psychology 🏆 Championship Mindset 📅 Daily Discipline 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🥅 Goal Setting

Walking to Listen

by Andrew Forsthoefel • 2017

He crossed America on foot carrying a sign that invited conversation. Strangers told him everything.

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2k+

🚶 Cross-Country Walking 📖 Travel Memoir 🇺🇸 American Pilgrimage 👂 Deep Listening 🤝 Stranger Encounters

Walking to Listen

He crossed America on foot carrying a sign that invited conversation. Strangers told him everything.

by Andrew Forsthoefel 2017 376 pages

3.88

2k+ ratings

🚶 Cross-Country Walking 📖 Travel Memoir 🇺🇸 American Pilgrimage 👂 Deep Listening 🤝 Stranger Encounters

This American Woman

by Zarna Garg • 2025

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

4.32

16k+

🕌 Indian Diaspora 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💍 Arranged Marriage 📦 Immigrant Memoirs 🔥 Cultural Rebellion

This American Woman

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

by Zarna Garg 2025 320 pages

4.32

16k+ ratings

🕌 Indian Diaspora 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💍 Arranged Marriage 📦 Immigrant Memoirs 🔥 Cultural Rebellion

Grief Is Love

by Marisa Renee Lee • 2022

Grief is not a disease to cure but love repurposed. A guide to giving it room.

4.15

2k+

💔 Grief And Healing ❤️ Loss And Love 🔓 Permission To Grieve 🧘 Self-Care During Grief 🌈 Grief And Joy

Grief Is Love

Grief is not a disease to cure but love repurposed. A guide to giving it room.

by Marisa Renee Lee 2022 178 pages

4.15

2k+ ratings

💔 Grief And Healing ❤️ Loss And Love 🔓 Permission To Grieve 🧘 Self-Care During Grief 🌈 Grief And Joy

Americanized

by Sara Saedi • 2018

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

3.91

3k+

🗽 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🏛️ Immigration System 📋 Undocumented Youth

Americanized

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

by Sara Saedi 2018 288 pages

3.91

3k+ ratings

🗽 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🏛️ Immigration System 📋 Undocumented Youth

Speak

by Tunde Oyeneyin • 2022

A Peloton instructor's blueprint for turning loss and self-doubt into an unstoppable voice.

4.30

11k+

🌿 Self-Acceptance 🔄 Career Reinvention 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 🕊️ Grief And Resilience 🤝 Empathy In Action

Speak

A Peloton instructor's blueprint for turning loss and self-doubt into an unstoppable voice.

by Tunde Oyeneyin 2022 239 pages

4.30

11k+ ratings

🌿 Self-Acceptance 🔄 Career Reinvention 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 🕊️ Grief And Resilience 🤝 Empathy In Action

Brothers

by Alex Van Halen • 2024

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

4.08

9k+

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

Brothers

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

by Alex Van Halen 2024 240 pages

4.08

9k+ ratings

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

by Scaachi Koul • 2017

Online trolls, body hair, Indian wedding: a daughter of immigrants learns where her fight belongs.

3.72

13k+

🌏 South Asian Diaspora 🧳 Immigrant Families ✊ Modern Feminism 🪞 Body Image 📱 Online Harassment

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Online trolls, body hair, Indian wedding: a daughter of immigrants learns where her fight belongs.

by Scaachi Koul 2017 241 pages

3.72

13k+ ratings

🌏 South Asian Diaspora 🧳 Immigrant Families ✊ Modern Feminism 🪞 Body Image 📱 Online Harassment

Consent

by Jill Ciment • 2024

At 17 she became her art teacher's lover. At 70 she finally asks: was that consent?

3.83

6k+

🎓 Teacher-Student Affairs 👥 Age-Gap Relationships ⚠️ Grooming And Exploitation ✊ Sexual Agency 🧠 Memory And Narrative

Consent

At 17 she became her art teacher's lover. At 70 she finally asks: was that consent?

by Jill Ciment 2024 145 pages

3.83

6k+ ratings

🎓 Teacher-Student Affairs 👥 Age-Gap Relationships ⚠️ Grooming And Exploitation ✊ Sexual Agency 🧠 Memory And Narrative

A Buddhist Grief Observed

by Guy Newland • 2016

A Buddhist scholar thought he understood impermanence. Then his wife died.

3.96

130

🖤 Bereavement Memoirs ☸️ Buddhist Practice 🍂 Impermanence 💗 Self-Compassion In Loss 🌊 Mindfulness And Grief

A Buddhist Grief Observed

A Buddhist scholar thought he understood impermanence. Then his wife died.

by Guy Newland 2016 136 pages

3.96

130 ratings

🖤 Bereavement Memoirs ☸️ Buddhist Practice 🍂 Impermanence 💗 Self-Compassion In Loss 🌊 Mindfulness And Grief

The Unexpected Spy

by Tracy Walder • 2020

Inside the CIA's most secret unit, a young woman hunted the world's most dangerous men.

3.84

6k+

🕵️ Spy Memoirs 👩‍✈️ Female Spies 💣 Counterterrorism ⚖️ Workplace Sexism 🧠 Vicarious Trauma

The Unexpected Spy

Inside the CIA's most secret unit, a young woman hunted the world's most dangerous men.

by Tracy Walder 2020 272 pages

3.84

6k+ ratings

🕵️ Spy Memoirs 👩‍✈️ Female Spies 💣 Counterterrorism ⚖️ Workplace Sexism 🧠 Vicarious Trauma

Small Wonder

by Barbara Kingsolver • 2002

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

4.03

11k+

🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Small Wonder

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 300 pages

4.03

11k+ ratings

🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Below Stairs

by Margaret Powell • 1968

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

3.58

14k+

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Below Stairs

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

by Margaret Powell 1968 288 pages

3.58

14k+ ratings

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Blind Ambition

by John W. Dean • 1976

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

4.04

1k+

🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

Blind Ambition

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

by John W. Dean 1976 614 pages

4.04

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

Some People Need Killing

by Patricia Evangelista • 2023

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

4.20

10k+

🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Some People Need Killing

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

by Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 pages

4.20

10k+ ratings

🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Sick in the Head

by Judd Apatow • 2015

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

3.67

13k+

🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

Sick in the Head

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

by Judd Apatow 2015 489 pages

3.67

13k+ ratings

🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

The PayPal Wars

by Eric M. Jackson • 2004

Russian mobsters, eBay's sabotage, an IPO after 9/11: inside PayPal's fight to survive.

3.99

1k+

🚀 Startup Stories 💳 Fintech History 🔗 Network Effects 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🦠 Viral Growth

The PayPal Wars

Russian mobsters, eBay's sabotage, an IPO after 9/11: inside PayPal's fight to survive.

by Eric M. Jackson 2004 230 pages

3.99

1k+ ratings

🚀 Startup Stories 💳 Fintech History 🔗 Network Effects 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🦠 Viral Growth

If We Break

by Kathleen Buhle • 2022

A political wife's hidden life of addiction and betrayal, and her fight to reclaim herself.

4.20

3k+

💊 Addiction Memoir 💍 Marriage In Crisis 🔗 Co-Dependency 💔 Infidelity Recovery 🔒 Family Secrets

If We Break

A political wife's hidden life of addiction and betrayal, and her fight to reclaim herself.

by Kathleen Buhle 2022 304 pages

4.20

3k+ ratings

💊 Addiction Memoir 💍 Marriage In Crisis 🔗 Co-Dependency 💔 Infidelity Recovery 🔒 Family Secrets

The Wisdom of Wilderness

by Gerald G. May • 2006

Nature heals the self modern life fractures. The treatments: silence, storms, and fear itself.

4.18

344

🏔️ Nature Spirituality 🧘 Contemplative Spirituality 🌿 Ecopsychology 🏕️ Wilderness Memoir 💚 Healing Through Nature

The Wisdom of Wilderness

Nature heals the self modern life fractures. The treatments: silence, storms, and fear itself.

by Gerald G. May 2006 224 pages

4.18

344 ratings

🏔️ Nature Spirituality 🧘 Contemplative Spirituality 🌿 Ecopsychology 🏕️ Wilderness Memoir 💚 Healing Through Nature

The Buy Side

by Turney Duff • 2013

He faked a mugging to hide his cocaine binge. The bottom that saved a Wall Street trader's life.

3.97

5k+

🧳 Wall Street Memoirs 🏦 Hedge Fund Culture 🍸 Wall Street Excess ❄️ Cocaine Addiction 🔄 Recovery Memoirs

The Buy Side

He faked a mugging to hide his cocaine binge. The bottom that saved a Wall Street trader's life.

by Turney Duff 2013 320 pages

3.97

5k+ ratings

🧳 Wall Street Memoirs 🏦 Hedge Fund Culture 🍸 Wall Street Excess ❄️ Cocaine Addiction 🔄 Recovery Memoirs

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

by Bill Bryson • 1998

After twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson came home to an America he no longer understood.

3.90

69k+

🌀 Reverse Culture Shock 👀 Observational Humor 🛒 Consumer Culture 🇺🇸 Everyday Americana ✈️ Armchair Travel

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

After twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson came home to an America he no longer understood.

by Bill Bryson 1998 304 pages

3.90

69k+ ratings

🌀 Reverse Culture Shock 👀 Observational Humor 🛒 Consumer Culture 🇺🇸 Everyday Americana ✈️ Armchair Travel

Joseph Anton

by Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9k+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

by Salman Rushdie 2012 656 pages

3.65

9k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

All Souls

by Michael Patrick MacDonald • 1999

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

4.09

13k+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

All Souls

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

by Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999 263 pages

4.09

13k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

The Age of Turbulence

by Alan Greenspan • 2007

A Fed chair's map of the invisible machinery that makes economies prosper or stall.

3.65

7k+

🏦 Monetary Policy 📈 Economic Development 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔑 Property Rights 🛢️ Resource Curse

The Age of Turbulence

A Fed chair's map of the invisible machinery that makes economies prosper or stall.

by Alan Greenspan 2007 575 pages

3.65

7k+ ratings

🏦 Monetary Policy 📈 Economic Development 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔑 Property Rights 🛢️ Resource Curse

Everything That Remains

by Joshua Fields Millburn • 2013

He left his corner office, got rid of everything, and discovered what actually makes life rich.

3.81

9k+

🏠 Minimalist Living 📖 Transformation Memoir 🧭 Intentional Living 🗑️ Decluttering 🎯 Redefining Success

Everything That Remains

He left his corner office, got rid of everything, and discovered what actually makes life rich.

by Joshua Fields Millburn 2013 232 pages

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Come of Age

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