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Call Sign Chaos Summary
Call Sign Chaos
Learning to Lead
by Jim Mattis 2019 320 pages
4.30
12k+ ratings
Leadership
Military Fiction
Biography
Softwar Summary
Softwar
An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
by Matthew Symonds 2003 528 pages
3.79
100+ ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
The House of My Mother Summary
The House of My Mother
A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
by Shari Franke 2025 320 pages
4.49
56k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Your Mom's Gonna Love Me Summary
Your Mom's Gonna Love Me
by Matt Rife 2024 272 pages
3.89
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Good Time Girl Summary
Good Time Girl
by Heather Gay 2024 288 pages
3.58
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Housekeeper's Secret Summary
The Housekeeper's Secret
by Sandra Schnakenburg 2024 290 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
What in the World?! Summary
What in the World?!
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
by Leanne Morgan 2024 240 pages
4.39
6k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
A Well-Trained Wife Summary
A Well-Trained Wife
My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
by Tia Levings 2024 304 pages
4.34
13k+ ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
See A Little Light Summary
See A Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
by Bob Mould 2011 403 pages
3.80
2k+ ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
Dongri To Dubai Summary
Dongri To Dubai
Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
by S. Hussain Zaidi 2012 378 pages
3.95
10k+ ratings
Crime
India
History
Loud Summary
Loud
Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
by Drew Afualo 2024 256 pages
4.35
17k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Self Help
Women in the Valley of the Kings Summary
Women in the Valley of the Kings
The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
by Kathleen Sheppard 2024 320 pages
3.55
500+ ratings
History
Egypt
Biography
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards Summary
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
by Jessica Waite 2024 320 pages
3.57
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
Consent Summary
Consent
A Memoir
by Jill Ciment 2024 145 pages
3.89
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
The Art Thief Summary
The Art Thief
A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel 2023 224 pages
3.96
60k+ ratings
True Crime
Art
History
Bits and Pieces Summary
Bits and Pieces
My Mother, My Brother, and Me
by Whoopi Goldberg 2024 256 pages
4.30
11k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Dirt Summary
The Dirt
Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Neil Strauss 2001 431 pages
4.14
47k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography Summary
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography
The Story Of My Experiments With Truth
by M.K. Gandhi 2020 649 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
The Boy on the Wooden Box Summary
The Boy on the Wooden Box
by Leon Leyson 2013 240 pages
4.38
28k+ ratings
Holocaust
History
Memoir
Ignited Minds Summary
Ignited Minds
Unleashing the Power Within India
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2002 222 pages
4.03
11k+ ratings
India
Self Help
Inspirational
Hitchcock/Truffaut Summary
Hitchcock/Truffaut
by François Truffaut 1966 368 pages
4.48
8k+ ratings
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols. Summary
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
by Vivekananda 1922 4961 pages
4.61
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Self Help
Killing Kennedy Summary
Killing Kennedy
The End of Camelot
by Bill O'Reilly 2012 325 pages
4.10
60k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou 1987 192 pages
4.09
33k+ ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
Bruce Lee Summary
Bruce Lee
Artist of Life
by Bruce Lee 1999 288 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Martial Arts
Source Code Summary
Source Code
My Beginnings
by Bill Gates 2025 336 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Business
Pandeymonium Summary
Pandeymonium
Piyush Pandey On Advertising
by Piyush Pandey 2015 264 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Biography
Business
India
Muhammad Summary
Muhammad
A Biography of the Prophet
by Karen Armstrong 1991 290 pages
4.19
6k+ ratings
Religion
Islam
History
The Warren Buffett Way Workbook Summary
The Warren Buffett Way Workbook
by Robert G. Hagstrom 2013 226 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Way of the Champion Summary
The Way of the Champion
Pain, Persistence, and the Path Forward
by Paul Rabil 2024 256 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Self Help
Fist Stick Knife Gun Summary
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
by Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Graphic Novels
Education
The Upstairs Wife Summary
The Upstairs Wife
An Intimate History of Pakistan
by Rafia Zakaria 2015 264 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Pakistan
History
Memoir
Three-Ring Circus Summary
Three-Ring Circus
Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
by Jeff Pearlman 2020 426 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Sports
Basketball
History
The Discovery of India Summary
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 656 pages
4.09
8k+ ratings
History
India
Politics
Boyd Summary
Boyd
The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram 2004 504 pages
4.18
7k+ ratings
Biography
History
Military Fiction
Whole Earth Summary
Whole Earth
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff 2022 416 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Biography
Science
History
Anne Frank Summary
Anne Frank
The Biography
by Melissa Müller 1998 330 pages
4.34
25k+ ratings
Biography
History
Holocaust
Why Bob Dylan Matters Summary
Why Bob Dylan Matters
by Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Poetry
Tall Order Summary
Tall Order
The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1
by Shing Huei Peh 2018 305 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Re-Sisters Summary
Re-Sisters
The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
by Cosey Fanni Tutti 2022 372 pages
3.71
100+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Nonbinary Summary
Nonbinary
A Memoir
by Genesis P-Orridge 2021 352 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
Music
Memoir
LGBT
Big Fellow, Long Fellow Summary
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera
by T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 256 pages
4.23
100+ ratings
Ireland
History
Biography
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2k+ ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
To Selena, With Love Summary
To Selena, With Love
by Chris Pérez 2012 304 pages
4.64
8k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Music
Living with a SEAL Summary
Living with a SEAL
31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
by Jesse Itzler 2015 272 pages
4.29
20k+ ratings
Self Help
Biography
Health
Writings of Abraham Lincoln Summary
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln 1953
4.12
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Civil War
Tremendous Summary
Tremendous
by Joey "Coco" Diaz 2023 280 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
Comedy
Biography
Memoir
The Polymath Summary
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
by Peter Burke 2020 352 pages
3.24
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Science
Stand Before Your God Summary
Stand Before Your God
An American Schoolboy in England
by Paul Watkins 1994 254 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Memoir
Boarding School
Biography
Born on a Blue Day Summary
Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet 2006 226 pages
3.84
23k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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