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Banker to the Poor Summary
Banker to the Poor
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus 1991 289 pages
4.12
10k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Thinking In Pictures Summary
Thinking In Pictures
And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin 1995 240 pages
4.10
16k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15k+ ratings
History
Leadership
Biography
Balancing Heaven and Earth Summary
Balancing Heaven and Earth
A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations
by Robert A. Johnson 1998 320 pages
4.38
500+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Spirituality
Fire Shut Up in My Bones Summary
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow 2014 228 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
African American
Excellence Wins Summary
Excellence Wins
A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise
by Horst Schulze 2019 224 pages
4.46
1k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Personal Development
How Not to Get Rich Summary
How Not to Get Rich
The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
by Alan Pell Crawford 2014 224 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Biography
Finance
Biography Memoir
In Search of Memory Summary
In Search of Memory
The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by Eric R. Kandel 2006 430 pages
4.13
5k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 pages
4.41
700k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
How to Lead Summary
How to Lead
Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
by David M. Rubenstein 2020 445 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Biography
Factory Man Summary
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy 2014 464 pages
3.85
2k+ ratings
Business
History
Biography
Restaurant Man Summary
Restaurant Man
by Joe Bastianich 2012 288 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Food
Memoir
Cooking
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Summary
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson 2006 288 pages
3.93
66k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Market Wizards Summary
Market Wizards
Interviews with Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager 1989 480 pages
4.27
9k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Force of Nature Summary
Force of Nature
Mind, Body, Soul
by Laird Hamilton 2008 256 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Fitness
Buckley Summary
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
by Carl T. Bogus 2011 416 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Cicero Summary
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt 2001 364 pages
3.89
7k+ ratings
History
Biography
Ancient History
Hatching Twitter Summary
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton 2013 299 pages
4.04
18k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Broad Band Summary
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans 2018 288 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
History
Science
Feminism
Getting to Us Summary
Getting to Us
How Great Coaches Make Great Teams
by Seth Davis 2018 304 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
Sports
Leadership
Basketball
Lost and Founder Summary
Lost and Founder
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
by Rand Fishkin 2018 300 pages
4.31
2k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
The Score Takes Care of Itself Summary
The Score Takes Care of Itself
My Philosophy of Leadership
by Bill Walsh 2009 288 pages
4.22
5k+ ratings
Leadership
Business
Sports
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela Summary
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
by Zelda la Grange 2014 384 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Biography
Africa
Memoir
حكمة ستيف جوبز التجارية Summary
حكمة ستيف جوبز التجارية
مئتان وخمسون شاهداً مأثوراً من المبتكر الذي غير العالم
by Alan Ken Thomas 2011 152 pages
3.29
100+ ratings
Business
Biography
Self Help
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish Summary
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
by Rashmi Bansal 2008 324 pages
3.69
11k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
Extraordinary Circumstances Summary
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
by Cynthia Cooper 2007 402 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Business
Memoir
Accounting
7 Men Summary
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
by Eric Metaxas 2013 240 pages
4.23
6k+ ratings
Biography
History
Christian
The End of Your Life Book Club Summary
The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe 2012 336 pages
3.81
55k+ ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Eat a Peach Summary
Eat a Peach
by David Chang 2020 291 pages
3.89
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
Working Summary
Working
Researching, Interviewing, Writing
by Robert A. Caro 2019 231 pages
4.44
6k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
J.R.R. Tolkien Summary
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages
4.04
15k+ ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Gifted Hands Summary
Gifted Hands
The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson 1992 224 pages
4.18
21k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Medical
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages
4.34
23k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Whale Hunt in the Desert Summary
Whale Hunt in the Desert
Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
by Deke Castleman 2004 330 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Biography
The Sound of Gravel Summary
The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner 2016 336 pages
4.29
56k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
My Life And Work Summary
My Life And Work
by Henry Ford 1922 140 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Biography
Business
History
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had Summary
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
by Tony Danza 2012 264 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Education
Memoir
Biography
How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market Summary
How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market
by Nicolas Darvas 1960 197 pages
4.23
5k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
You're Never Weird on the Internet Summary
You're Never Weird on the Internet
by Felicia Day 2015 272 pages
4.07
49k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Kabul Beauty School Summary
Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez 2007 275 pages
3.67
25k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Womens
How Dante Can Save Your Life Summary
How Dante Can Save Your Life
The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
by Rod Dreher 2015 320 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Literature
Fermat's Enigma Summary
Fermat's Enigma
by Simon Singh 1997 315 pages
4.30
32k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
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
13k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me Summary
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
A Memoir. . . of Sorts
by Ian Morgan Cron 2011 257 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Christian
Black Mass Summary
Black Mass
by Dick Lehr 2000 424 pages
3.80
8k+ ratings
True Crime
History
Crime
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse Summary
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse
Insider Business Tips from a Former Mob Boss
by Michael Franzese 2009 155 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Business
Crime
Biography
Paul Summary
Paul
The Pagans' Apostle
by Paula Fredriksen 2017 336 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
Your Life in My Hands Summary
Your Life in My Hands
A Junior Doctor's Story
by Rachel Clarke 2017 280 pages
3.79
3k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Memoir
Same Kind of Different as Me Summary
Same Kind of Different as Me
A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by Ron Hall 2006 237 pages
4.20
91k+ ratings
Memoir
Christian
Biography
The Wisdom of Compassion Summary
The Wisdom of Compassion
Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights
by Dalai Lama XIV 2012 255 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Religion
Buddhism
Spirituality
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