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Notes on a Nervous Planet Summary
Notes on a Nervous Planet
by Matt Haig 2018 288 pages
3.95
53k+ ratings
Self Help
Mental Health
Psychology
Inferno Summary
Inferno
A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
by Catherine Cho 2020 242 pages
4.24
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
The Plus Summary
The Plus
Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
by Greg Gutfeld 2020 222 pages
4.00
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Humor
Politics
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Summary
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
by Carrie Brownstein 2015 244 pages
3.83
35k+ ratings
Memoir
Music
Feminism
Rise Sister Rise Summary
Rise Sister Rise
A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within
by Rebecca Campbell 2016 304 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Feminism
Silent No More Summary
Silent No More
Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky
by Aaron Fisher 2012 218 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
A Higher Loyalty Summary
A Higher Loyalty
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James Comey 2018 290 pages
4.10
48k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Taking Flight Summary
Taking Flight
From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
by Michaela DePrince 2014 256 pages
4.25
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Africa
No Dream Is Too High Summary
No Dream Is Too High
Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
by Buzz Aldrin 2016 224 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Biography
Space
Science
9 Rules of Engagement Summary
9 Rules of Engagement
A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success
by Harris Faulkner 2018 251 pages
4.01
100+ ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Military Fiction
Mountains Beyond Mountains Summary
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder 2003 333 pages
4.20
86k+ ratings
Biography
Medicine
Memoir
Mother Tongue Summary
Mother Tongue
My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
by Christine Gilbert 2016 336 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Language
The Moment of Lift Summary
The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World
by Melinda French Gates 2019 273 pages
4.27
62k+ ratings
Feminism
Memoir
Womens
Capital Gaines Summary
Capital Gaines
Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
by Chip Gaines 2017 224 pages
3.99
17k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Business
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost Summary
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
by Rachel Friedman 2011 295 pages
3.80
4k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Tattoos on the Heart Summary
Tattoos on the Heart
The Power of Boundless Compassion
by Gregory Boyle 2009 240 pages
4.49
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Christian
Religion
I Will Always Write Back Summary
I Will Always Write Back
How One Letter Changed Two Lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka 2015 392 pages
4.38
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Africa
The Story of a Life Summary
The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld 1983 208 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
I Can't Date Jesus Summary
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
by Michael Arceneaux 2018 258 pages
3.77
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Summary
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
by Nick Flynn 2004 347 pages
3.80
11k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
Parisian Lives Summary
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
by Deirdre Bair 2019 368 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
France
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street Summary
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
by Jordan Belfort 2009 480 pages
3.90
4k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Finance
The Blink of an Eye Summary
The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying―and Learning How to Live Again
by Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard 2018 227 pages
4.12
100+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medical
Maid Summary
Maid
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by Stephanie Land 2019 289 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Permission to Screw Up Summary
Permission to Screw Up
How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong
by Kristen Hadeed 2017 272 pages
4.24
2k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Self Help
All Things Wise and Wonderful Summary
All Things Wise and Wonderful
by James Herriot 1978 448 pages
4.44
36k+ ratings
Animals
Memoir
Biography
Cooking as Fast as I Can Summary
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
by Cat Cora 2015 256 pages
3.55
500+ ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Summary
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
by Lori Gottlieb 2019 415 pages
4.37
300k+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Self Help
Playing With Fire Summary
Playing With Fire
by Gordon Ramsay 2007 304 pages
3.51
500+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
Cooking
Thinking In Pictures Summary
Thinking In Pictures
And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin 1995 240 pages
4.10
16k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
Balancing Heaven and Earth Summary
Balancing Heaven and Earth
A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations
by Robert A. Johnson 1998 320 pages
4.38
500+ ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Spirituality
Fire Shut Up in My Bones Summary
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow 2014 228 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
African American
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 pages
4.41
700k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
Restaurant Man Summary
Restaurant Man
by Joe Bastianich 2012 288 pages
3.66
1k+ ratings
Food
Memoir
Cooking
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Summary
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson 2006 288 pages
3.93
66k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Revolution from Within Summary
Revolution from Within
by Gloria Steinem 1991 431 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
Feminism
Self Help
Psychology
Write Your Own Fairy Tale Summary
Write Your Own Fairy Tale
The New Rules for Dating, Relationships, and Finding Love On Your Terms
by Siggy Flicker 2015 240 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Memoir
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela Summary
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
by Zelda la Grange 2014 384 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Biography
Africa
Memoir
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Summary
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
by Michele Filgate 2019 288 pages
3.77
16k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Feminism
Extraordinary Circumstances Summary
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
by Cynthia Cooper 2007 402 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Business
Memoir
Accounting
The End of Your Life Book Club Summary
The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe 2012 336 pages
3.81
55k+ ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Eat a Peach Summary
Eat a Peach
by David Chang 2020 291 pages
3.89
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
French Kids Eat Everything Summary
French Kids Eat Everything
How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters
by Karen Le Billon 2012 305 pages
3.94
9k+ ratings
Parenting
Food
Memoir
Working Summary
Working
Researching, Interviewing, Writing
by Robert A. Caro 2019 231 pages
4.44
6k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Gifted Hands Summary
Gifted Hands
The Ben Carson Story
by Ben Carson 1992 224 pages
4.18
21k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Medical
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages
4.34
23k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
The Sound of Gravel Summary
The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner 2016 336 pages
4.29
56k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Religion
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had Summary
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
by Tony Danza 2012 264 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Education
Memoir
Biography
You're Never Weird on the Internet Summary
You're Never Weird on the Internet
by Felicia Day 2015 272 pages
4.07
49k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Kabul Beauty School Summary
Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez 2007 275 pages
3.67
25k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Womens
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