Memoir
Real lives unfold on these pages as writers share their most profound experiences, revelations, and transformative moments through intimate personal storytelling. Whether penned by world leaders or beloved artists, each memoir offers a window into someone's truth - their struggles and triumphs, wisdom and wonder, laughter and loss.
Memoir Book Summaries
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake
Biography
Memoir
True Crime
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Meet the Frugalwoods
Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Finance
Memoir
Personal Finance
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Business
Biography
Leadership
Phosphorescence
On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Self Help
Memoir
Science
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Memoir
Indigenous
Essays
The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Son of Hamas
A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Biography
History
Memoir
A Year of Living Simply
The joys of a life less complicated
Self Help
Nature
Biography
Godless
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sociology
Memoir
Economics
Hagitude
Reimagining the Second Half of Life
Feminism
Spirituality
Mythology
Zen in the Art of Writing
Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Writing
Essays
Memoir
Lone Survivor
The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Military Fiction
History
War
10% Happier
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
True Crime Addict
How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
Furiously Happy
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
Yes, Chef
Memoir
Food
Biography
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
Forgiveness
Memoir
Canada
Book Club
Read Dangerously
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Books About Books
Essays
Politics
A Well-Trained Wife
My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Memoir
Religion
Biography
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
365 Thank Yous
The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
Creatures of a Day
And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Psychology
Philosophy
Short Stories
The Last Lecture
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Sacred Hoops
SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Essays
Art
Feminism
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
Memoir
Self Help
Finance
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Classics
Philosophy
Nature
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Mountaineering
Adventure
Biography
Bibi
My Story
Biography
History
Politics
American Sniper
The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Biography
Military Fiction
History
I Forgot to Die
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Expecting Adam
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Memoir
Book Club
Parenting
Making It So
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Poverty Safari
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Consider This
Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Writing
Memoir
Biography
