Best Memoir Books | Summaries & Audio

Memoir Book Summaries

Drawing Out the Dragons

by James A. Owen • 2011

An illustrator's hard-won proof: the life you want is built one difficult choice at a time.

4.50

440

🎨 Creative Careers 🖌️ Artistic Perseverance 🧭 Personal Agency 🔄 Reframing Failure 🎯 Long-Term Thinking

Drawing Out the Dragons

An illustrator's hard-won proof: the life you want is built one difficult choice at a time.

by James A. Owen 2011 128 pages

4.50

440 ratings

🎨 Creative Careers 🖌️ Artistic Perseverance 🧭 Personal Agency 🔄 Reframing Failure 🎯 Long-Term Thinking

Politics

by Nick Clegg • 2016

Coalition with the Tories nearly destroyed his party. His case for why it was still right.

3.72

1k+

🏛️ Coalition Government 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Political Compromise 📢 Rise Of Populism ⚖️ Liberal Centrism

Politics

Coalition with the Tories nearly destroyed his party. His case for why it was still right.

by Nick Clegg 2016 304 pages

3.72

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Coalition Government 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Political Compromise 📢 Rise Of Populism ⚖️ Liberal Centrism

Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

by Michael Mansfield • 2009

A radical barrister's four-decade brief against the British legal system's claim to justice.

4.01

157

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🚔 Police Misconduct 🔬 Forensic Science 🗽 Civil Liberties

Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

A radical barrister's four-decade brief against the British legal system's claim to justice.

by Michael Mansfield 2009 605 pages

4.01

157 ratings

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🚔 Police Misconduct 🔬 Forensic Science 🗽 Civil Liberties

Love That Story

by Jonathan Van Ness • 2022

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

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7k+

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Love That Story

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

by Jonathan Van Ness 2022 256 pages

4.09

7k+ ratings

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Up Till Now

by William Shatner • 2008

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

3.84

3k+

👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

Up Till Now

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

by William Shatner 2008 358 pages

3.84

3k+ ratings

👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

First Comes Love

by Marion Winik • 1996

She fell for a gay man during Mardi Gras. Marriage, meth, motherhood, abuse, and AIDS came next.

4.14

441

✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Aids Crisis 💔 Unconventional Marriage 💉 Love And Addiction 🚫 Domestic Violence

First Comes Love

She fell for a gay man during Mardi Gras. Marriage, meth, motherhood, abuse, and AIDS came next.

by Marion Winik 1996

4.14

441 ratings

✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Aids Crisis 💔 Unconventional Marriage 💉 Love And Addiction 🚫 Domestic Violence

The Wellness Project

by Phoebe Lapine • 2017

Monthly health experiments taught her that fixing your liver doesn't mean giving up wine.

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1k+

📓 Wellness Memoir 🗓️ Monthly Experiments 🍽️ Anti-Diet Culture 🦠 Gut Health ⚖️ Hormone Balance

The Wellness Project

Monthly health experiments taught her that fixing your liver doesn't mean giving up wine.

by Phoebe Lapine 2017 384 pages

3.76

1k+ ratings

📓 Wellness Memoir 🗓️ Monthly Experiments 🍽️ Anti-Diet Culture 🦠 Gut Health ⚖️ Hormone Balance

Little Earthquakes

by Sarah Mandel • 2023

A terminal diagnosis during pregnancy: a psychologist's story of bringing life while facing death.

4.17

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🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 👶 New Motherhood 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 💗 Self-Compassion

Little Earthquakes

A terminal diagnosis during pregnancy: a psychologist's story of bringing life while facing death.

by Sarah Mandel 2023 287 pages

4.17

500+ ratings

🎗️ Cancer Memoirs 👶 New Motherhood 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 💗 Self-Compassion

Happier Than A Billionaire

by Nadine Hays Pisani • 2011

What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.

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1k+

🧳 Expat Memoirs 🌎 Cultural Immersion ⏬ Downshifting ✈️ Starting Over Abroad 🦋 Midlife Reinvention

Happier Than A Billionaire

What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.

by Nadine Hays Pisani 2011

3.89

1k+ ratings

🧳 Expat Memoirs 🌎 Cultural Immersion ⏬ Downshifting ✈️ Starting Over Abroad 🦋 Midlife Reinvention

Twenty-Two

by Allison Trowbridge • 2017

Twenty-two letters on purpose, love, failure, and faith for the young woman still figuring it out.

3.57

500+

🕊️ Christian Living 👩 Young Women 🎂 Twentysomething Life ✉️ Epistolary Advice 📞 Vocation And Calling

Twenty-Two

Twenty-two letters on purpose, love, failure, and faith for the young woman still figuring it out.

by Allison Trowbridge 2017 288 pages

3.57

500+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Living 👩 Young Women 🎂 Twentysomething Life ✉️ Epistolary Advice 📞 Vocation And Calling

The Republic of Tea

by Mel Ziegler • 1992

One plane ride, a fax machine, and the unlikely birth of a tea republic.

3.79

316

📖 Entrepreneurial Memoir 🍵 Beverage Startups 🌿 Lifestyle Brands 🧘 Mindful Business 🏗️ Brand Building

The Republic of Tea

One plane ride, a fax machine, and the unlikely birth of a tea republic.

by Mel Ziegler 1992 355 pages

3.79

316 ratings

📖 Entrepreneurial Memoir 🍵 Beverage Startups 🌿 Lifestyle Brands 🧘 Mindful Business 🏗️ Brand Building

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

by Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

3.81

3k+

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

by Dan Savage 2002 320 pages

3.81

3k+ ratings

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

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 ✉️ Literary Correspondence 📖 Books As Companions

Q's Legacy

A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.

by Helene Hanff 1985 177 pages

4.05

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🎓 Self-Education ✉️ Literary Correspondence 📖 Books As Companions

Dark Squares

by Danny Rensch • 2025

How a cult survivor built Chess.com, then faced the scandal that almost destroyed it.

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🕉️ High-Control Groups ♟️ Competitive Chess 💻 Online Chess ⚖️ Ethics In Sports 💔 Trauma Recovery

Dark Squares

How a cult survivor built Chess.com, then faced the scandal that almost destroyed it.

by Danny Rensch 2025 368 pages

4.37

500+ ratings

🕉️ High-Control Groups ♟️ Competitive Chess 💻 Online Chess ⚖️ Ethics In Sports 💔 Trauma Recovery

Perfectly Queer

by Jillian Abby • 2023

A girl held her hand, and her perfect suburban life stopped making sense.

4.46

236

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Later In Life 🪞 Internalized Homophobia 🎭 Perfectionism 📋 Compulsory Heterosexuality

Perfectly Queer

A girl held her hand, and her perfect suburban life stopped making sense.

by Jillian Abby 2023 288 pages

4.46

236 ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Later In Life 🪞 Internalized Homophobia 🎭 Perfectionism 📋 Compulsory Heterosexuality

What Makes a Marriage Last

by Marlo Thomas • 2020

Forty celebrated couples get honest about the fights, the forgiveness, and the choice to stay.

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1k+

🏠 Marriage Advice 🎙️ Interview Collection 💑 Enduring Love 🗣️ Marital Communication 🧠 Couples Psychology

What Makes a Marriage Last

Forty celebrated couples get honest about the fights, the forgiveness, and the choice to stay.

by Marlo Thomas 2020 610 pages

4.03

1k+ ratings

🏠 Marriage Advice 🎙️ Interview Collection 💑 Enduring Love 🗣️ Marital Communication 🧠 Couples Psychology

Truth in Our Times

by David E. McCraw • 2019

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

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500+

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Truth in Our Times

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

by David E. McCraw 2019 304 pages

4.14

500+ ratings

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Mother American Night

by John Perry Barlow • 2018

Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.

4.18

500+

🌵 Countercultural Memoir 🎸 Grateful Dead 🔐 Digital Rights 🍄 Psychedelic Movement 💔 Grief And Loss

Mother American Night

Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.

by John Perry Barlow 2018 288 pages

4.18

500+ ratings

🌵 Countercultural Memoir 🎸 Grateful Dead 🔐 Digital Rights 🍄 Psychedelic Movement 💔 Grief And Loss

Crash Test Girl

by Kari Byron • 2018

She tested myths with science. Then she used the same method on her own life.

3.91

1k+

👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧪 Science Communication 🔬 Scientific Mindset 🔧 Maker Culture 💡 Creative Problem-Solving

Crash Test Girl

She tested myths with science. Then she used the same method on her own life.

by Kari Byron 2018 254 pages

3.91

1k+ ratings

👩‍🔬 Women In Science 🧪 Science Communication 🔬 Scientific Mindset 🔧 Maker Culture 💡 Creative Problem-Solving

The Road Beneath My Feet

by Frank Turner • 2015

Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.

4.21

1k+

🎸 Music Memoir 🚐 Diy Touring 🎤 Touring Life 🤘 Punk Rock 🎨 Artistic Integrity

The Road Beneath My Feet

Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.

by Frank Turner 2015 272 pages

4.21

1k+ ratings

🎸 Music Memoir 🚐 Diy Touring 🎤 Touring Life 🤘 Punk Rock 🎨 Artistic Integrity

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 🪟 Creative Solitude 🕊️ Self-Acceptance

The Little Locksmith

A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.

by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943 276 pages

3.67

1k+ ratings

🩻 Disability Memoir ✍️ Writing Life 🦴 Embodied Difference 🪟 Creative Solitude 🕊️ Self-Acceptance

Black American Refugee

by Tiffanie Drayton • 2022

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

4.03

331

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

Black American Refugee

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

by Tiffanie Drayton 2022 304 pages

4.03

331 ratings

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

The Family Gene

by Joselin Linder • 2017

One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.

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1k+

🧬 Genetic Disorders 🦠 Rare Diseases 🔍 Medical Mysteries 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Inherited Illness 🔬 Genetic Research

The Family Gene

One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.

by Joselin Linder 2017 272 pages

4.05

1k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Disorders 🦠 Rare Diseases 🔍 Medical Mysteries 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Inherited Illness 🔬 Genetic Research

On Muscle

by Bonnie Tsui • 2025

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

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1k+

🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

On Muscle

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

by Bonnie Tsui 2025 256 pages

3.77

1k+ ratings

🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

The Kid

by Dan Savage • 1999

Two gay men. One homeless birth mother. And the open adoption goodbye nobody warned them about.

4.05

8k+

🤝 Open Adoption 👨‍👨‍👦 Gay Fathers 📖 Adoption Memoir 🏡 Adoptive Parents 🇺🇸 Domestic Adoption

The Kid

Two gay men. One homeless birth mother. And the open adoption goodbye nobody warned them about.

by Dan Savage 1999 246 pages

4.05

8k+ ratings

🤝 Open Adoption 👨‍👨‍👦 Gay Fathers 📖 Adoption Memoir 🏡 Adoptive Parents 🇺🇸 Domestic Adoption

Between You & Me

by Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

3.61

6k+

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

by Mary Norris 2015 240 pages

3.61

6k+ ratings

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

None of the Above

by Shani Robinson • 2019

An Atlanta teacher indicted for cheating tells what the trial never let her say.

3.94

190

🏫 Public Education 📝 High-Stakes Testing ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💼 Corporate Education Reform

None of the Above

An Atlanta teacher indicted for cheating tells what the trial never let her say.

by Shani Robinson 2019 272 pages

3.94

190 ratings

🏫 Public Education 📝 High-Stakes Testing ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💼 Corporate Education Reform

Growing Up Colt

by Colt McCoy • 2011

Before a quarterback's faith went viral, a father spent years building its foundation.

4.07

315

🏈 College Football ✝️ Christian Parenting 👨‍👦 Father-Son Relationships 🫡 Servant Leadership 🛡️ Adversity And Resilience

Growing Up Colt

Before a quarterback's faith went viral, a father spent years building its foundation.

by Colt McCoy 2011 255 pages

4.07

315 ratings

🏈 College Football ✝️ Christian Parenting 👨‍👦 Father-Son Relationships 🫡 Servant Leadership 🛡️ Adversity And Resilience

Billy No-Mates

by Max Dickins • 2022

No close male friends at 30: an engaged man investigates the male friendship crisis.

4.16

463

🧱 Male Friendship 📖 Masculinity Studies 🏚️ Male Loneliness 🤝 Adult Friendship 💔 Men And Emotions

Billy No-Mates

No close male friends at 30: an engaged man investigates the male friendship crisis.

by Max Dickins 2022 337 pages

4.16

463 ratings

🧱 Male Friendship 📖 Masculinity Studies 🏚️ Male Loneliness 🤝 Adult Friendship 💔 Men And Emotions

Herbie Hancock

by Herbie Hancock • 2014

A five-dollar piano, Miles Davis at 23, a crack addiction hidden from everyone.

4.23

1k+

🎹 Jazz Memoirs 🎸 Jazz Fusion 🎺 Midcentury Jazz 🔄 Musical Reinvention 💻 Electronic Music Pioneers

Herbie Hancock

A five-dollar piano, Miles Davis at 23, a crack addiction hidden from everyone.

by Herbie Hancock 2014 352 pages

4.23

1k+ ratings

🎹 Jazz Memoirs 🎸 Jazz Fusion 🎺 Midcentury Jazz 🔄 Musical Reinvention 💻 Electronic Music Pioneers

A Brilliant Life

by Rachelle Unreich • 2023

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

4.29

2k+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness ✡️ Faith Under Persecution 🪞 Survivor Guilt

A Brilliant Life

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

by Rachelle Unreich 2023 304 pages

4.29

2k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness ✡️ Faith Under Persecution 🪞 Survivor Guilt

Motherland

by Julia Ioffe • 2025

How Russian autocracy was built on women's bodies and labor, from Bolshevik liberation to Putin.

4.53

2k+

🏛️ Soviet History 🗳️ Russian Politics 📋 State Feminism ⚔️ Women In War 🔄 Post-Soviet Transition

Motherland

How Russian autocracy was built on women's bodies and labor, from Bolshevik liberation to Putin.

by Julia Ioffe 2025 512 pages

4.53

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Soviet History 🗳️ Russian Politics 📋 State Feminism ⚔️ Women In War 🔄 Post-Soviet Transition

The Ballerina Mindset

by Megan Fairchild • 2021

What elite ballet teaches about managing perfectionism: techniques for any high-pressure pursuit.

3.98

500+

🎭 Performance Anxiety 🧷 Perfectionism 🧘 Stress Management 🏆 High Achievers 🩰 Ballet Memoir

The Ballerina Mindset

What elite ballet teaches about managing perfectionism: techniques for any high-pressure pursuit.

by Megan Fairchild 2021 177 pages

3.98

500+ ratings

🎭 Performance Anxiety 🧷 Perfectionism 🧘 Stress Management 🏆 High Achievers 🩰 Ballet Memoir

Spiritual Sobriety

by Elizabeth Esther • 2016

Religious addiction: when devotion becomes a drug and the path out isn't abandoning faith.

3.90

106

⛪ Religious Recovery 💔 Faith Deconstruction 🛑 Spiritual Abuse 🪜 12-Step Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Christianity

Spiritual Sobriety

Religious addiction: when devotion becomes a drug and the path out isn't abandoning faith.

by Elizabeth Esther 2016 194 pages

3.90

106 ratings

⛪ Religious Recovery 💔 Faith Deconstruction 🛑 Spiritual Abuse 🪜 12-Step Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Christianity

Educated By Tara Westover and The Education of an Idealist [Hardcover] By Samantha Power Books Collection Set

by Tara Westover • 2023

A doomsday prepper's daughter, no birth certificate, no school. She taught herself into Cambridge.

4.34

360

⛪ Religious Extremism 📚 Self-Education 💔 Family Estrangement 😣 Religious Trauma 📈 Class Transition

Educated By Tara Westover and The Education of an Idealist [Hardcover] By Samantha Power Books Collection Set

A doomsday prepper's daughter, no birth certificate, no school. She taught herself into Cambridge.

by Tara Westover 2023 960 pages

4.34

360 ratings

⛪ Religious Extremism 📚 Self-Education 💔 Family Estrangement 😣 Religious Trauma 📈 Class Transition

The Prosecutor

by Nazir Afzal • 2020

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

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1k+

⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

The Prosecutor

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

by Nazir Afzal 2020 304 pages

4.42

1k+ ratings

⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

The Drone Eats with Me

by Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

4.40

452

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

The Drone Eats with Me

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

by Atef Abu Saif 2015 258 pages

4.40

452 ratings

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

Walk the Blue Line

by James Patterson • 2023

A burning home, a father held back: the moments cops carry long after the sirens fade.

4.19

3k+

📘 Police Memoirs 🚒 Frontline Professions 💔 Moral Injury 🧠 First Responder Trauma 🏘️ Police And Community

Walk the Blue Line

A burning home, a father held back: the moments cops carry long after the sirens fade.

by James Patterson 2023 353 pages

4.19

3k+ ratings

📘 Police Memoirs 🚒 Frontline Professions 💔 Moral Injury 🧠 First Responder Trauma 🏘️ Police And Community

Teach Us to Sit Still

by Tim Parks • 2010

A novelist's chronic pain baffled doctors. Sitting still and facing his own mind finally healed him.

3.65

1k+

🧘 Mind-Body Healing 🧠 Psychosomatic Medicine 🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘‍♀️ Meditation And Healing 🩺 Integrative Medicine

Teach Us to Sit Still

A novelist's chronic pain baffled doctors. Sitting still and facing his own mind finally healed him.

by Tim Parks 2010 336 pages

3.65

1k+ ratings

🧘 Mind-Body Healing 🧠 Psychosomatic Medicine 🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘‍♀️ Meditation And Healing 🩺 Integrative Medicine

A Nurse's Story

by Louise Curtis • 2020

An A&E nurse thought she'd seen everything. Then COVID arrived, and she was afraid to go home.

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1k+

🏥 Emergency Medicine 🩺 Nursing Memoirs 🦠 Pandemic Frontline 🔥 Healthcare Burnout 💔 Vicarious Trauma

A Nurse's Story

An A&E nurse thought she'd seen everything. Then COVID arrived, and she was afraid to go home.

by Louise Curtis 2020 286 pages

3.93

1k+ ratings

🏥 Emergency Medicine 🩺 Nursing Memoirs 🦠 Pandemic Frontline 🔥 Healthcare Burnout 💔 Vicarious Trauma

The Mind of Wall Street

by Leon Levy • 2002

Markets aren't efficient; they're emotional. A Wall Street legend on what psychology does to prices.

3.52

132

🧠 Market Psychology 💎 Value Investing 🔄 Contrarian Investing 🫧 Financial Bubbles 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

The Mind of Wall Street

Markets aren't efficient; they're emotional. A Wall Street legend on what psychology does to prices.

by Leon Levy 2002 240 pages

3.52

132 ratings

🧠 Market Psychology 💎 Value Investing 🔄 Contrarian Investing 🫧 Financial Bubbles 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

The Accidental Admiral

by James G. Stavridis • 2014

What a Navy admiral learned commanding NATO through Afghanistan, Libya, and a balky Russia.

4.00

248

📖 Military Memoir 🎖️ Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🛡️ Counterinsurgency

The Accidental Admiral

What a Navy admiral learned commanding NATO through Afghanistan, Libya, and a balky Russia.

by James G. Stavridis 2014 288 pages

4.00

248 ratings

📖 Military Memoir 🎖️ Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Politics ⚔️ Military Strategy 🛡️ Counterinsurgency

Renegade

by Adam Kinzinger • 2023

One Republican congressman's inside story: his party fell to a demagogue, and he chose to speak.

4.15

2k+

🗽 American Democracy ⚡ Political Polarization 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚨 Political Whistleblowing 🎭 Cult Of Personality

Renegade

One Republican congressman's inside story: his party fell to a demagogue, and he chose to speak.

by Adam Kinzinger 2023 316 pages

4.15

2k+ ratings

🗽 American Democracy ⚡ Political Polarization 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚨 Political Whistleblowing 🎭 Cult Of Personality

Dear Madam President

by Jennifer Palmieri • 2018

Leadership was designed by men. A White House veteran shows women how to rewrite the rules.

3.89

5k+

🗳️ Women In Politics ✊ Feminist Leadership 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🌟 Authentic Leadership 🛡️ Resilience Building

Dear Madam President

Leadership was designed by men. A White House veteran shows women how to rewrite the rules.

by Jennifer Palmieri 2018 193 pages

3.89

5k+ ratings

🗳️ Women In Politics ✊ Feminist Leadership 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🌟 Authentic Leadership 🛡️ Resilience Building

Acne

by Laura Chinn • 2022

Ten, a pimple, decades hiding: she found the one career that didn't care about faces.

4.28

1k+

🩹 Severe Acne 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🎭 Dark Humor Memoir 🧴 Body Image Memoir 🎬 Hollywood Memoirs

Acne

Ten, a pimple, decades hiding: she found the one career that didn't care about faces.

by Laura Chinn 2022 320 pages

4.28

1k+ ratings

🩹 Severe Acne 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🎭 Dark Humor Memoir 🧴 Body Image Memoir 🎬 Hollywood Memoirs

Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire

by Dan Conway • 2019

He bet his family's savings on Ethereum. The $10 million exit was the easy part.

4.22

199

💰 Cryptocurrency 🏖️ Financial Independence 📈 Market Speculation 🍸 Addiction Memoir 🎲 Risk And Reward

Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire

He bet his family's savings on Ethereum. The $10 million exit was the easy part.

by Dan Conway 2019 201 pages

4.22

199 ratings

💰 Cryptocurrency 🏖️ Financial Independence 📈 Market Speculation 🍸 Addiction Memoir 🎲 Risk And Reward

Ask a Pro

by Phil Gaimon • 2017

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

4.05

500+

🚴 Pro Cycling Life 🎭 Insider Memoirs 🗣️ No-Nonsense Advice 🩺 Doping In Sports 👥 Group Ride Culture

Ask a Pro

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

by Phil Gaimon 2017 216 pages

4.05

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4.15

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🧘 Spiritual Formation 🏹 Native American Wisdom 🙇 Humility 🎭 Pride And Ego 🔍 Self-Examination

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