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Good Power Summary
Good Power
Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World
by Ginni Rometty 2023 256 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Biography
Enchantment Summary
Enchantment
Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
by Katherine May 2023 212 pages
3.61
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Nature
Hijab Butch Blues Summary
Hijab Butch Blues
by Lamya H. 2023 284 pages
4.48
14k+ ratings
Memoir
Queer
LGBT
Glow in the F*cking Dark Summary
Glow in the F*cking Dark
by Tara Schuster 2023 302 pages
3.92
2k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
How to Think Like a Woman Summary
How to Think Like a Woman
Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
by Regan Penaluna 2023 320 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Feminism
History
Becoming Free Indeed Summary
Becoming Free Indeed
My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
by Jinger Duggar Vuolo 2023 221 pages
3.61
46k+ ratings
Memoir
Christian
Biography
How to Think Like da Vinci Summary
How to Think Like da Vinci
by Daniel Smith 2015 225 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
Biography
Art
Memoir
The Best Strangers in the World Summary
The Best Strangers in the World
Stories from a Life Spent Listening
by Ari Shapiro 2023 256 pages
4.03
6k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Everything I Know About Love Summary
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton 2018 368 pages
3.97
400k+ ratings
Memoir
Romance
Self Help
Choosing to Run Summary
Choosing to Run
A Memoir
by Des Linden 2023 272 pages
4.27
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Sports
Biography
LeBron Summary
LeBron
by Jeff Benedict 2023
4.41
1k+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Basketball
It. Goes. So. Fast. Summary
It. Goes. So. Fast.
The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly 2023 240 pages
3.86
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Parenting
Biography
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023 256 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Health
Science
Silicon Valley Porn Star Summary
Silicon Valley Porn Star
A Memoir of Redemption and Rediscovering the Self
by Jason Portnoy 2022 224 pages
4.33
100+ ratings
Memoir
Personal Development
Biography
Monsters Summary
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
by Claire Dederer 2023 257 pages
3.75
16k+ ratings
Essays
Art
Feminism
The Well-Lived Life Summary
The Well-Lived Life
A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
by Gladys McGarey 2023 256 pages
4.26
2k+ ratings
Health
Self Help
Memoir
Desert Flower Summary
Desert Flower
by Waris Dirie 1998 256 pages
4.23
37k+ ratings
Biography
Africa
Memoir
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands Summary
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
by Dasha Kiper 2023 272 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Health
A Renaissance of Our Own Summary
A Renaissance of Our Own
A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle 2023 256 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Queer
Feminism
A Year of Living Simply Summary
A Year of Living Simply
The joys of a life less complicated
by Kate Humble 2020 304 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Nature
Biography
The Book of Charlie Summary
The Book of Charlie
Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
by David von Drehle 2023 194 pages
3.99
10k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
The In-Between Summary
The In-Between
Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
by Hadley Vlahos 2023 288 pages
4.51
41k+ ratings
Memoir
Death
Medical
The Success Myth Summary
The Success Myth
Our obsession with achievement is a trap. This is how to break free
by Emma Gannon 2023 336 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Self Help
Personal Development
Memoir
Orphan Bachelors Summary
Orphan Bachelors
by Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
The Country of the Blind Summary
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
by Andrew Leland 2023 368 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
Nowhere Girl Summary
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
by Cheryl Diamond 2021 320 pages
4.05
8k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Body Work Summary
Body Work
The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by Melissa Febos 2022 171 pages
4.22
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Writing
Essays
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Summary
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
by Mark Hodkinson 2022 368 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Love Language Summary
Love Language
A memoir of family, music and pasta
by Linda Marigliano 2023 280 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Bleed Summary
Bleed
Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
by Tracey Lindeman 2023 336 pages
4.35
100+ ratings
Feminism
Health
Medical
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
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
Coach Summary
Coach
Lessons on the Game of Life
by Michael Lewis 2005 96 pages
3.90
2k+ ratings
Sports
Baseball
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
Windswept & Interesting Summary
Windswept & Interesting
My Autobiography
by Billy Connolly 2021 356 pages
4.41
9k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Humor
Six Days of Impossible Summary
Six Days of Impossible
Navy SEAL Hell Week - A Doctor Looks Back
by Robert Adams 2017 228 pages
4.41
100+ ratings
Military Fiction
War
Military History
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
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