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
Navajos Wear Nikes
A Reservation Life
Memoir
Native American
Native Americans
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Adventure
Biography
Mountaineering
The Dark Side of the Mind
True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
How Starbucks Saved My Life
A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Memoir
Biography
Business
Still Here
Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
Spirituality
Death
Self Help
High Achiever
The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
Memoir
Addiction
Biography
Elderhood
Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Health
Science
Medical
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Memoir
Biography
Addiction
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
History
Politics
Memoir
Aftermath
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
Philosophy
Psychology
Feminism
Grace (Eventually)
Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
Brutally Honest
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
English Journey
Travel
History
British Literature
Madly, Deeply
The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Somebody Else's Kids
The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher
Psychology
Memoir
Education
Nonbinary
A Memoir
Music
Memoir
Biography
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Don't Text Your Ex Happy Birthday
And Other Advice on Love, Sex, and Dating
Relationships
Self Help
Adult
Writing My Wrongs
Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
No Impact Man
Environment
Memoir
Sustainability
Amateur
A True Story About What Makes a Man
Memoir
Queer
LGBT
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
Down and Out in Paris and London
Classics
Memoir
Biography
The Shift
Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself
Self Help
Relationships
Romance
Men Explain Things to Me
Feminism
Essays
Politics
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Japan
Crime
True Crime
Get Me Out of Here
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Walden on Wheels
On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Memoir
Travel
Biography
The Parrot's Perch
A Memoir
Memoir
Brazil
True Crime
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Psychic Warrior
The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program
Paranormal
History
Biography
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Memoir
China
History
Ghost Rider
Travels on the Healing Road
Travel
Biography
Music
There Is No Ethan
How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
I Am Jennie
Memoir
Biography
Sexuality
Beyond the Gender Binary
LGBT
Queer
Gender
The Basketball Diaries
Memoir
Biography
Drugs
My Life in Red and White
Sports
Biography
Football
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
The Big Truck that Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
History
Politics
International Development
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Our Malady
Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Politics
History
Memoir
I Can't Make This Up
Life Lessons
Biography
Humor
Memoir
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
The Art of Seeing
Science
Health
Philosophy
Los hornos de Hitler
Holocaust
History
World War II
Broken Open
How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Self Help
Psychology
Spirituality
Lewis Hamilton
My Story
Biography
Autobiography
Sports
