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Go For the Goal Summary
Go For the Goal
A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
by Mia Hamm 1999 272 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Soccer
Sports
Autobiography
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
1k+ ratings
Music
Feminism
History
Iacocca Summary
Iacocca
An Autobiography
by Lee Iacocca 1984 366 pages
3.98
10k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Autobiography
I'm a Joke and So Are You Summary
I'm a Joke and So Are You
Reflections on Humour and Humanity
by Robin Ince 2018 323 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Humor
Psychology
Science
The Year of Living Biblically Summary
The Year of Living Biblically
One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by A.J. Jacobs 2007 388 pages
3.76
68k+ ratings
Religion
Humor
Memoir
The Gambler Summary
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
by William C. Rempel 2018 432 pages
4.36
1k+ ratings
Biography
Business
History
Lead with Humility Summary
Lead with Humility
12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
by Jeffrey A. Krames 2014 144 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Leadership
Religion
Business
Mentors Summary
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
by Russell Brand 2019 177 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Screw It, Let's Do It Summary
Screw It, Let's Do It
Lessons in Life
by Richard Branson 2006 111 pages
3.91
15k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Self Help
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15k+ ratings
History
Leadership
Biography
Wild Game Summary
Wild Game
My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
by Adrienne Brodeur 2019 256 pages
3.98
32k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help Summary
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
by Amanda Palmer 2014 339 pages
3.92
36k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
All Too Human Summary
All Too Human
by George Stephanopoulos 1999 480 pages
3.83
3k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
The Intel Trinity Summary
The Intel Trinity
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
by Michael S. Malone 2014 560 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
The Unwinding of the Miracle Summary
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams 2019 315 pages
4.10
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Revolutionary Characters Summary
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
by Gordon S. Wood 2006 336 pages
3.97
4k+ ratings
History
American History
Biography
The Little Locksmith Summary
The Little Locksmith
by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943 272 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Classics
Biography
Keynes Hayek Summary
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
by Nicholas Wapshott 2011 400 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
The First Muslim Summary
The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
by Lesley Hazleton 2013 320 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
Religion
History
Islam
Ahead of the Curve Summary
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip Delves Broughton 2005 304 pages
3.76
4k+ ratings
Business
Education
Biography
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story Summary
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story
How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
by William Hazelgrove 2018 332 pages
3.64
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Science
Hegarty on Advertising Summary
Hegarty on Advertising
by John Hegarty 2011 224 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Business
Design
Memoir
Creativity, Inc. Summary
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull 2014 368 pages
4.22
97k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Biography
How to Be Like Mike Summary
How to Be Like Mike
Life Lessons about Basketball's Best
by Pat Williams 2001 368 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Basketball
Sports
Biography
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Summary
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot 2010 370 pages
4.12
700k+ ratings
Science
History
Biography
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Summary
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What I Learned While Editing My Life
by Donald Miller 2009 255 pages
4.13
31k+ ratings
Memoir
Christian
Faith
How I Built This Summary
How I Built This
The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz 2020 320 pages
4.17
4k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Einstein and the Rabbi Summary
Einstein and the Rabbi
Searching for the Soul
by Naomi Levy 2017 338 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Judaism
Religion
Spirituality
Can't Hurt Me Summary
Can't Hurt Me
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins 2018 366 pages
4.30
200k+ ratings
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Fitness Confidential Summary
Fitness Confidential
by Vinnie Tortorich 2013 250 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Fitness
Health
Memoir
Making Movies Summary
Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet 1995 218 pages
4.28
9k+ ratings
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey 2017 224 pages
4.02
6k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Eichmann in My Hands Summary
Eichmann in My Hands
A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner
by Peter Z. Malkin 1990 267 pages
4.42
500+ ratings
History
Holocaust
Memoir
Disrupted Summary
Disrupted
My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons 2016 272 pages
3.91
16k+ ratings
Business
Memoir
Biography
Supreme Commander Summary
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
by Seymour Morris Jr. 2014 384 pages
4.10
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Japan
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.83
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
Operation Ironman Summary
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
by George Mahood 2015 318 pages
4.52
2k+ ratings
Biography
Humor
Travel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Summary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X 1965 466 pages
4.36
200k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
90k+ ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Malcolm X Summary
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable 2011 608 pages
4.18
19k+ ratings
Biography
History
Race
Guitar Zero Summary
Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
by Gary F. Marcus 2012 288 pages
3.64
2k+ ratings
Music
Psychology
Memoir
Born Standing Up Summary
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin 2007 207 pages
3.88
100k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Marx Summary
Marx
A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Singer 1980 108 pages
3.70
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
by Pepper White 1991 328 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Education
Science
Biography
Character Is Destiny Summary
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
by John McCain 2005 336 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
A Theory of Everything (That Matters) Summary
A Theory of Everything (That Matters)
A Brief Guide to Einstein, Relativity, and His Surprising Thoughts on God
by Alister E. McGrath 2019 240 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biography
Mind Without Fear Summary
Mind Without Fear
by Rajat Gupta 2013 376 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Angela Merkel Summary
Angela Merkel
Europe's Most Influential Leader
by Matt Qvortrup 2016 376 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Seven Women Summary
Seven Women
And the Secret of Their Greatness
by Eric Metaxas 2015 215 pages
4.18
6k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
History
Bitcoin Billionaires Summary
Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich 2019 288 pages
3.98
7k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Biography
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