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
How Dante Can Save Your Life
The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
Memoir
Poetry
Literature
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
A Memoir. . . of Sorts
Memoir
Biography
Christian
Your Life in My Hands
A Junior Doctor's Story
Medicine
Medical
Memoir
Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things
Christian
Faith
Memoir
Same Kind of Different as Me
A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Memoir
Christian
Biography
Iacocca
An Autobiography
Biography
Business
Autobiography
The Year of Living Biblically
One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Religion
Humor
Memoir
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Science
Indigenous
Memoir
Cassandra Speaks
When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Feminism
History
Essays
My Grape Year
Memoir
Travel
France
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Wild Game
My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
All Too Human
Politics
Memoir
Biography
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Cleaning House
A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement
Parenting
Self Help
Christian
The Little Locksmith
Memoir
Classics
Biography
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Essays
Self Help
Memoir
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Writing
Journalism
Essays
Hegarty on Advertising
Business
Design
Memoir
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Essays
Humor
Pop Culture
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What I Learned While Editing My Life
Memoir
Christian
Faith
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Can't Hurt Me
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Fitness Confidential
Fitness
Health
Memoir
Making Movies
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Poverty Safari
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Eichmann in My Hands
A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner
History
Holocaust
Memoir
Disrupted
My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Business
Memoir
Biography
In the Dream House
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Biography
History
Memoir
Long Walk to Freedom
Biography
History
Africa
Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
Music
Psychology
Memoir
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Mind Without Fear
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Angela Merkel
Europe's Most Influential Leader
Biography
Politics
History
How to Be a Woman
Feminism
Memoir
Humor
The Gift
12 Lessons to Save Your Life
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Bad Boy
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
African American
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
LGBT
Biography
Memoir
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Biography
Memoir
Politics
Becoming
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
My Invented Country
A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Memoir
Biography
Travel
English Lessons
The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith
Memoir
Christian
Faith
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Politics
Feminism
Memoir
In Order to Live
A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Ghost Rider
Travels on the Healing Road
Travel
Music
Biography