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Grant Summary
Grant
by Ron Chernow 2017 1074 pages
4.50
40k+ ratings
History
Biography
Civil War
J. K. Rowling Summary
J. K. Rowling
The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
by Marc Shapiro 2000 107 pages
3.90
4k+ ratings
Biography
Biography Memoir
Childrens
Adversity for Sale Summary
Adversity for Sale
Ya Gotta Believe
by Jeezy 2023 272 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
George Washington Summary
George Washington
by James MacGregor Burns 2004 208 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Presidents
The Sun Does Shine Summary
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton 2018 272 pages
4.65
69k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
Zero Regrets Summary
Zero Regrets
Be Greater Than Yesterday
by Apolo Anton Ohno 2010 292 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Just Another Kid Summary
Just Another Kid
by Torey L. Hayden 1988 411 pages
4.23
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Education
Somebody Else's Kids Summary
Somebody Else's Kids
by Torey L. Hayden 1981 333 pages
4.28
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Education
Politics Summary
Politics
Between the Extremes
by Nick Clegg 2016 304 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Biography Memoir
Coach Summary
Coach
Lessons on the Game of Life
by Michael Lewis 2005 96 pages
3.90
2k+ ratings
Sports
Baseball
Biography
Getting Castaneda Summary
Getting Castaneda
Understanding Carlos Castaneda
by Peter Luce 2017 188 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Biography
God's Hotel Summary
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
by Victoria Sweet 2012 372 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Quantum Man Summary
Quantum Man
Richard Feynman's Life in Science
by Lawrence M. Krauss 2011 368 pages
4.07
3k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
Windswept & Interesting Summary
Windswept & Interesting
My Autobiography
by Billy Connolly 2021 356 pages
4.41
9k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Humor
Three Pianos Summary
Three Pianos
A Memoir
by Andrew McMahon 2021 240 pages
4.41
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
Breaking the Silence Summary
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
by Casey Watson 2013 304 pages
4.42
1k+ ratings
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
Tears of the Desert Summary
Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
by Halima Bashir 2008 316 pages
4.23
4k+ ratings
Africa
Memoir
Biography
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog Summary
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
by Emily Dean 2019 257 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Listening to the Animals Summary
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
by Noel Fitzpatrick 2018 385 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Biography
Animals
Memoir
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 153 pages
3.66
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
Seven Letters from Paris Summary
Seven Letters from Paris
by Samantha Verant 2014 272 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Romance
France
A Childhood Summary
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
by Harry Crews 1978 182 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Southern
Storyteller Summary
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
by Kate Wilhelm 2005 200 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Reference
The Family Gene Summary
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
by Joselin Linder 2017 272 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Science
Medical
Saint Thomas Aquinas Summary
Saint Thomas Aquinas
by G.K. Chesterton 1933 167 pages
4.10
5k+ ratings
Biography
Religion
Philosophy
The Minds of Billy Milligan Summary
The Minds of Billy Milligan
by Daniel Keyes 1981 374 pages
4.28
32k+ ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Biography
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Andrew Lycett 2007 576 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Biography
History
Mystery
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West Summary
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
by Konstantin Kisin 2022 288 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
The Faraway Nearby Summary
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit 2013 259 pages
4.21
7k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Doglapan Summary
Doglapan
The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
by Ashneer Grover 2022 202 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Richard Dawkins Summary
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen 2006 283 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Science
Biography
Biology
The Father of Spin Summary
The Father of Spin
Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
by Larry Tye 1998 304 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Biography
Psychology
History
Timothy Keller Summary
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
by Collin Hansen 2023 320 pages
4.56
2k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Theology
Stalling for Time Summary
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
by Gary Noesner 2010 372 pages
3.93
5k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Little Earthquakes Summary
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
by Sarah Mandel 2023 288 pages
4.17
100+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Abroad in Japan Summary
Abroad in Japan
Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
by Chris Broad 2023 320 pages
4.15
15k+ ratings
Travel
Japan
Memoir
Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire Summary
Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire
Everything I know about Autism, ASD, and Asperger's that I wish I'd known back then...
by David William Plummer 2021 334 pages
4.29
100+ ratings
Psychology
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Biography
Good Morning, Monster Summary
Good Morning, Monster
A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
by Catherine Gildiner 2020 368 pages
4.45
50k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
The Snowball Summary
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder 2008 960 pages
4.15
52k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Finance
The Sunset Route Summary
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by Carrot Quinn 2021 304 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Seldom Disappointed Summary
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
by Tony Hillerman 2001 368 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Brave Summary
Brave
by Rose McGowan 2018 258 pages
3.86
9k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
What I Know for Sure Summary
What I Know for Sure
by Oprah Winfrey 2014 228 pages
4.14
45k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Biography
Somewhere Towards the End Summary
Somewhere Towards the End
by Diana Athill 2008 182 pages
3.72
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Step by Step Summary
Step by Step
The Life In My Journeys
by Simon Reeve 2018 352 pages
4.35
5k+ ratings
Travel
Biography
Autobiography
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance 2016 264 pages
3.85
400k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Finding My Balance Summary
Finding My Balance
A Memoir with Yoga
by Mariel Hemingway 2003 256 pages
3.47
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons Summary
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
by Blythe Grossberg 2021 304 pages
3.41
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Education
Biography Memoir
A Life in Football Summary
A Life in Football
My Autobiography
by Ian Wright 2016 415 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Football
Biography
Sports
Eat, Pray, Love Summary
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 368 pages
3.64
1.7M+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
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