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Handbook for an Unpredictable Life Summary
Handbook for an Unpredictable Life
How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling
by Rosie Pérez 2014 338 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Didn't See That Coming Summary
Didn't See That Coming
Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart
by Rachel Hollis 2020 227 pages
3.63
16k+ ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Memoir
Out with It Summary
Out with It
How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
by Katherine Preston 2013 256 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Summary
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
by Gordon Livingston 2004 169 pages
3.81
3k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Philosophy
Poster Child Summary
Poster Child
A Memoir
by Emily Rapp 2006 226 pages
3.71
500+ ratings
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
My Planet Summary
My Planet
Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
by Mary Roach 2013 191 pages
3.67
3k+ ratings
Humor
Science
Essays
Look Me in the Eye Summary
Look Me in the Eye
by John Elder Robison 2007 288 pages
3.92
68k+ ratings
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Biography
The Philosopher and the Wolf Summary
The Philosopher and the Wolf
by Mark Rowlands 2008 256 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Animals
Memoir
Liar's Poker Summary
Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis 1989 310 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Peace and Plenty Summary
Peace and Plenty
Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity
by Sarah Ban Breathnach 2010 426 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Finance
I Wish My Teacher Knew Summary
I Wish My Teacher Knew
How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
by Kyle Schwartz 2016 272 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
School
A Fierce Love Summary
A Fierce Love
One Woman’s Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage
by Shauna Shanks 2017 240 pages
4.31
100+ ratings
Christian
Marriage
Biography
Unapologetically Ambitious Summary
Unapologetically Ambitious
Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
by Shellye Archambeau 2020 288 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Rowing the Atlantic Summary
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
by Roz Savage 2009 256 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Sports
Finding My Badass Self Summary
Finding My Badass Self
A Year of Truths and Dares
by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley 2017 225 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
My Age of Anxiety Summary
My Age of Anxiety
Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
by Scott Stossel 2014 416 pages
3.85
7k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Gang Leader for a Day Summary
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh 2008 302 pages
4.07
24k+ ratings
Sociology
Memoir
Economics
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead Summary
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
by Jerry Weintraub 2010 304 pages
4.13
4k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Memoir
Tramp for the Lord Summary
Tramp for the Lord
by Corrie ten Boom 1971 192 pages
4.49
25k+ ratings
Christian
Biography
History
Born a Crime Summary
Born a Crime
Stories From a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah 2016 289 pages
4.49
700k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Lost on Planet China Summary
Lost on Planet China
by J. Maarten Troost 2008 382 pages
3.77
11k+ ratings
Travel
China
Humor
First They Killed My Father Summary
First They Killed My Father
A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung 2000 238 pages
4.35
50k+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
A Beautiful Work In Progress Summary
A Beautiful Work In Progress
by Mirna Valerio 2017 336 pages
3.76
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Buddha and the Borderline Summary
The Buddha and the Borderline
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
by Kiera Van Gelder 2010 248 pages
4.11
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
In My Own Way Summary
In My Own Way
An Autobiography
by Alan W. Watts 1972 384 pages
4.18
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Spirituality
Material Girl, Mystical World Summary
Material Girl, Mystical World
The Now Age Guide to a High-Vibe Life
by Ruby Warrington 2017 304 pages
3.63
1k+ ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Memoir
Role Models Summary
Role Models
by John Waters 2010 304 pages
4.07
8k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Humor
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
El pez en el agua Summary
El pez en el agua
by Mario Vargas Llosa 1993 618 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Nobel Prize
Our Malady Summary
Our Malady
Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
by Timothy Snyder 2020 179 pages
4.15
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Memoir
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train Summary
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
by Howard Zinn 1994 214 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Memoir
How to Write One Song Summary
How to Write One Song
Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
by Jeff Tweedy 2020 176 pages
4.22
6k+ ratings
Music
Writing
Art
When Women Were Birds Summary
When Women Were Birds
Fifty-four Variations on Voice
by Terry Tempest Williams 2012 208 pages
4.20
8k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Better to Live Summary
Better to Live
by Alastair Campbell 2020 320 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Biography
Memoir
A Nurse's Story Summary
A Nurse's Story
My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
by Louise Curtis 2020 286 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
The 52 Week Project Summary
The 52 Week Project
How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year
by Lauren Keenan 2020 272 pages
3.36
100+ ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Inspirational
Eating for Beginners Summary
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
by Melanie Rehak 2010 288 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Food
Cookbooks
Memoir
Jew[ish] Summary
Jew[ish]
by Matt Greene 2020 199 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Lab Girl Summary
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren 2016 290 pages
3.98
69k+ ratings
Science
Memoir
Biography
Many Lives, Many Masters Summary
Many Lives, Many Masters
The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
by Brian L. Weiss 1988 224 pages
4.17
74k+ ratings
Spirituality
Psychology
Self Help
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman Summary
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Action Heroes
by Vic Armstrong 2011 384 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Biography
Film
Memoir
Thick Summary
Thick
And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 244 pages
4.43
17k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Race
Half Broke Horses Summary
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls 2009 272 pages
4.09
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Drawing Out the Dragons Summary
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
by James A. Owen 2011 128 pages
4.50
100+ ratings
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
Eat, Pray, Love Summary
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 368 pages
3.64
1.7M+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Pryor Convictions Summary
Pryor Convictions
And Other Life Sentences
by Richard Pryor 1995 257 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Biography
Comedy
Memoir
The Autistic Brain Summary
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
by Temple Grandin 2013 240 pages
4.11
10k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Science
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Spirit Run Summary
Spirit Run
A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
by Noé Álvarez 2020 240 pages
3.50
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Travel
Indigenous
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