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
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Politics
Memoir
History
Saving Five
A Memoir of Hope
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Happier Than A Billionaire
Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, & Living the Zero Hour Work Week
Travel
Memoir
Humor
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
Biography
Music
Memoir
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Middle East
Biography
The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally
Memoir
Food
Cookbooks
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
Music
Biography
Jazz
Human(Kind)
How Reclaiming Human Worth and Embracing Radical Kindness Will Bring Us Back Together
Self Help
Christian
Spirituality
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
Memoir
Science
Medical
What We Carry
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
The Way of the Explorer
An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
Science
Philosophy
Space
The Drone Eats with Me
A Gaza Diary
Memoir
Middle East
War
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Miss May Does Not Exist
The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Biography
Film
Biography Memoir
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life – An Emmy-Nominated Comedian's Essays on HIV, LGBTQ+ Rights, Grief, and Joy
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
Black American Refugee
Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
Memoir
Race
Biography Memoir
Three Pianos
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
A Brilliant Life
My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
English Lessons
The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith
Memoir
Faith
Christian
A Fierce Love
One Woman’s Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage
Marriage
Christian
Biography
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
The Kid
What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Memoir
LGBT
Humor
The Prosecutor
Law
Memoir
Biography
Carry On, Warrior
Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Memoir
Self Help
Parenting
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Memoir
Nigeria
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Good Doctor
A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Crash Test Girl
An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
Biography
Science
Memoir
Old Rage
'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad’ - DAILY MAIL
Autobiography
Memoir
Book Club
Between You & Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
Memoir
Writing
Language
Stumbling Into Infinity
An Ordinary Man in the Sphere of Enlightenment
Spirituality
Memoir
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Politics
Feminism
Memoir
First Comes Love
Memoir
Biography Memoir
LGBT
Twenty-Two
Letters to a Young Woman Searching for Meaning
Self Help
Christian
Memoir
Ask a Pro
Deep Thoughts and Unreliable Advice from America’s Foremost Cycling Sage
Cycling
Sports
Memoir
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Memoir
Biography
Comedy
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Humor
Politics
Essays
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Shy by Design
12 Timeless Principles to Quietly Stand Out
Self Help
Leadership
Memoir
Acne
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
Most Talkative
Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Truth in Our Times
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
Politics
Journalism
Memoir
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
Q's Legacy
A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
A Life in Nature
Or How to Catch a Mole
Nature
Memoir
Animals
