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
The Accidental President of Brazil
A Memoir
History
Brazil
Biography
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Holocaust
History
Memoir
Forensic Detective
How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
True Crime
Science
Crime
If the Oceans Were Ink
An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Islam
Religion
Memoir
Hope
A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Rejection Proof
How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection
Self Help
Psychology
Business
Just Mercy
Memoir
Social Justice
Race
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Feminism
Walden on Wheels
On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Memoir
Health
Biography
The Year of Reading Dangerously
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
The Surrender Experiment
My Journey into Life's Perfection
Spirituality
Self Help
Philosophy
The Backyard Parables
Lessons on Gardening, and Life
Gardening
Memoir
Nature
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Memoir
Education
Business
The Shift
One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Madness
A Bipolar Life
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
The Truth
An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
Leap
Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
Self Help
Business
Memoir
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Science
Memoir
Animals
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
Quarto de Despejo
Diário de Uma Favelada
Memoir
Biography
Brazil
Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam
A Life in Physics
Science
Physics
Biography
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Food
Memoir
Cooking
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Writing Down the Bones
Freeing the Writer Within
Writing
Reference
Self Help
Happier at Home
Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Nigeria
Memoir
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Self Help
Memoir
Essays
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Science
Wave
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Science
Biography
Physics
On Writing
Writing
Classics
Literature
Word Painting
A Guide to Writing More Descriptively
Writing
Reference
Poetry
The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
Sex Object
A Memoir
Feminism
Memoir
Biography
Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Business
Technology
Biography
The Nordic Theory of Everything
In Search of a Better Life
Politics
Sociology
Memoir
Only in Naples
Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
Memoir
Italy
Travel
Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
Nature
Memoir
Essays
Love Warrior
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
Wings of Fire
An Autobiography
Biography
Autobiography
India
The Ghost in My Brain
How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
Science
Memoir
Neuroscience
True Crime Addict
How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
Finance
Biography
Business
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Born a Crime
Stories From a South African Childhood
Memoir
Biography
Humor