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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
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
Laundry Love Summary
Laundry Love
Finding Joy in a Common Chore
by Patric Richardson 2021 208 pages
4.17
4k+ ratings
Self Help
Reference
How To
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
Small Wonder Summary
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 264 pages
4.03
11k+ ratings
Essays
Nature
Memoir
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Summary
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
by Margareta Magnusson 2017 117 pages
3.41
27k+ ratings
Self Help
Death
Memoir
The Book of (More) Delights Summary
The Book of (More) Delights
Essays
by Ross Gay 2023 304 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
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
Take This Bread Summary
Take This Bread
A Radical Conversion
by Sara Miles 2007 283 pages
4.00
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Religion
Spirituality
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
Black Box Summary
Black Box
by Shiori Itō 2017 256 pages
4.47
1k+ ratings
Japan
Memoir
Feminism
41-Love Summary
41-Love
by Scarlett Thomas 2022 384 pages
3.29
100+ ratings
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Punch Me Up to the Gods Summary
Punch Me Up to the Gods
by Brian Broome 2021 250 pages
4.33
5k+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki Summary
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
by Baek Se-hee 2018 232 pages
3.25
73k+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Self Help
English Journey Summary
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley 1934 320 pages
4.08
100+ ratings
Travel
History
British Literature
Girl Code Summary
Girl Code
Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
by Andrea Gonzales 2017 272 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Be Useful Summary
Be Useful
Seven Tools for Life
by Arnold Schwarzenegger 2023 288 pages
4.13
25k+ ratings
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Politics On the Edge Summary
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
by Rory Stewart 2023 436 pages
4.34
13k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
A Matter of Death and Life Summary
A Matter of Death and Life
by Irvin D. Yalom 2021 240 pages
4.41
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Philosophy
Touched Out Summary
Touched Out
Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
by Amanda Montei 2023 256 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Feminism
Parenting
Memoir
If You Want to Write Summary
If You Want to Write
A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland 2012 179 pages
4.12
8k+ ratings
Writing
Art
Self Help
Wake Up With Purpose! Summary
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
by Jean Dolores Schmidt 2023 222 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Woman in Me Summary
The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears 2023 288 pages
3.84
500k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
A House in the Sky Summary
A House in the Sky
by Amanda Lindhout 2013 373 pages
4.27
68k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Summary
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
by Matthew Perry 2022 250 pages
3.93
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
In the Form of a Question Summary
In the Form of a Question
The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
by Amy Schneider 2023 272 pages
3.50
2k+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Unmasking AI Summary
Unmasking AI
My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
by Joy Buolamwini 2023 336 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Man’s Search for Meaning Summary
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 pages
4.38
700k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Mao's America Summary
Mao's America
A Survivor’s Warning
by Xi Van Fleet 2023 320 pages
4.45
100+ ratings
Politics
History
China
Shark Life Summary
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
by Peter Benchley 2002 208 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Science
Animals
Nature
Scatter Brain Summary
Scatter Brain
How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer
by Shaparak Khorsandi 2023 256 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Adhd
Memoir
Biography
Freeing Jesus Summary
Freeing Jesus
Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence
by Diana Butler Bass 2021 285 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Religion
Christian
Spirituality
More Than the Tattooed Mormon Summary
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
by Al Carraway 2015 176 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Religion
Lds
Biography
Moonshot Summary
Moonshot
A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
by Mike Massimino 2023 210 pages
4.30
500+ ratings
Biography
Science
Space
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt Summary
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
by Madeline Pendleton 2024 336 pages
4.56
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Finance
Safe Summary
Safe
A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
by Mark Daley 2024 304 pages
4.42
500+ ratings
Memoir
Parenting
Biography Memoir
Every Day Gets A Little Closer Summary
Every Day Gets A Little Closer
by Irvin D. Yalom 1974 272 pages
3.77
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
Becoming Myself Summary
Becoming Myself
A Psychiatrist's Memoir
by Irvin D. Yalom 2017 352 pages
4.20
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Biography
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