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The Ballerina Mindset Summary
The Ballerina Mindset
How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence
by Megan Fairchild 2021 177 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Sucker Punch Summary
Sucker Punch
Essays
by Scaachi Koul 2025 272 pages
3.81
2k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Canada
Girl Code Summary
Girl Code
Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
by Andrea Gonzales 2017 272 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Teach Us to Sit Still Summary
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
by Tim Parks 2010 336 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Health
Biography
Things in Nature Merely Grow Summary
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li 2025 192 pages
4.35
11k+ ratings
Memoir
Grief
Mental Health
Little Earthquakes Summary
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir – Facing Terminal Cancer While Bringing New Life into the World and Finding Healing
by Sarah Mandel 2023 287 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Unreliable Narrator Summary
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
by Aparna Nancherla 2023 289 pages
3.58
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Essays
He Said, She Said Summary
He Said, She Said
Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
by Gigi Gorgeous 2019 224 pages
3.65
400 ratings
LGBT
Memoir
Transgender
Self-Portrait in Black and White Summary
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Unlearning Race
by Thomas Chatterton Williams 2019 185 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Politics
The Comfort of Crows Summary
The Comfort of Crows
A Backyard Year
by Margaret Renkl 2023 270 pages
4.16
15k+ ratings
Nature
Memoir
Essays
Shakey Summary
Shakey
Neil Young's Biography
by Jimmy McDonough 2002 786 pages
4.09
8k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Dreaming in Chinese Summary
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language
by Deborah Fallows 2010 208 pages
3.63
2k+ ratings
China
Language
Travel
Blessed Are the Crazy Summary
Blessed Are the Crazy
Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church
by Sarah Griffith Lund 2014 116 pages
4.24
202 ratings
Theology
Religion
Mental Health
I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life Summary
I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life
by Maria Shriver 2018 240 pages
4.18
6k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Inspirational
Moby-Duck Summary
Moby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn 2011 416 pages
3.31
3k+ ratings
Science
Travel
Environment
Stand Before Your God Summary
Stand Before Your God
An American Schoolboy in England
by Paul Watkins 1994 254 pages
4.04
343 ratings
Memoir
School
Boarding School
The Year of Reading Dangerously Summary
The Year of Reading Dangerously
by Andy Miller 2012 338 pages
3.31
6k+ ratings
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
Wonderland Avenue Summary
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
by Danny Sugerman 1989 480 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
One Hundred Names for Love Summary
One Hundred Names for Love
A Memoir
by Diane Ackerman 2011 336 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers Summary
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
by Stuart Ross 2022 141 pages
3.84
189 ratings
Poetry
Grief
Memoir
The Geography of Memory Summary
The Geography of Memory
A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's
by Jeanne Murray Walker 2013 384 pages
3.98
117 ratings
Memoir
Biography
Disability
Seven Letters from Paris Summary
Seven Letters from Paris
by Samantha Verant 2014 269 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Memoir
France
Romance
Gardening for a Lifetime Summary
Gardening for a Lifetime
How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
by Sydney Eddison 2010 208 pages
3.76
274 ratings
Gardening
Nature
Autobiography
Being Black Summary
Being Black
Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
by Angel Kyodo Williams 2000 200 pages
4.15
329 ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
The Road Beneath My Feet Summary
The Road Beneath My Feet
by Frank Turner 2015 272 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Hate Next Door Summary
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
by Matson Browning 2023 368 pages
4.16
500+ ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
Pieces of Light Summary
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts
by Charles Fernyhough 2012 320 pages
3.53
468 ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
When They Call You a Terrorist Summary
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Cullors 2018 273 pages
4.49
25k+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Silver Screen Fiend Summary
Silver Screen Fiend
Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
by Patton Oswalt 2015 240 pages
3.62
7k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Film
On Muscle Summary
On Muscle
The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
by Bonnie Tsui 2025 256 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Science
Health
Memoir
This Will Only Hurt a Little Summary
This Will Only Hurt a Little
by Busy Philipps 2018 288 pages
3.91
33k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Wake Up With Purpose! Summary
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years
by Jean Dolores Schmidt 2023 234 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Sports
A Lion's Tale Summary
A Lion's Tale
Around the World in Spandex
by Chris Jericho 2007 412 pages
4.37
5k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Leap Summary
Leap
Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
by Tess Vigeland 2015 256 pages
3.48
500+ ratings
Self Help
Business
Memoir
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by Ken Ilgunas 2016 288 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
Growing Up Colt Summary
Growing Up Colt
A Father, a Son, a Life in Football
by Colt McCoy 2011 255 pages
4.07
315 ratings
Biography
Sports
Football
Still Surprised Summary
Still Surprised
A Memoir of a Life in Leadership
by Warren Bennis 2010 256 pages
3.74
72 ratings
Leadership
Memoir
Business
Find the Good Summary
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
by Heather Lende 2015 176 pages
3.76
6k+ ratings
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
Cook, Eat, Repeat Summary
Cook, Eat, Repeat
Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories – Nigella Lawson's Delicious Essays on Food, Family, and Life
by Nigella Lawson 2020 352 pages
4.11
1k+ ratings
Cookbooks
Cooking
Food
The Little Locksmith Summary
The Little Locksmith
A Memoir
by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943 276 pages
3.67
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Classics
History
A Nurse's Story Summary
A Nurse's Story
My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
by Louise Curtis 2020 286 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
All Things Wise and Wonderful Summary
All Things Wise and Wonderful
by James Herriot 1978 458 pages
4.45
38k+ ratings
Animals
Memoir
Biography
The Accidental Investment Banker Summary
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
by Jonathan A. Knee 2006 288 pages
3.58
500+ ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
Faith Unraveled Summary
Faith Unraveled
How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions
by Rachel Held Evans 2010 240 pages
4.24
11k+ ratings
Religion
Memoir
Christian
Peace Pilgrim Summary
Peace Pilgrim
Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
by Peace Pilgrim 1983 208 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
Biography
Spirituality
Memoir
Fear Is Just a Word Summary
Fear Is Just a Word
A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
by Azam Ahmed 2023 384 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Believe Summary
Believe
The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts
by Jeremy Egner 2024 368 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Sports
Pop Culture
History
Natural Disaster Summary
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
by Ginger Zee 2017 288 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Electric Woman Summary
The Electric Woman
A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by Tessa Fontaine 2018 384 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Gay Girl, Good God Summary
Gay Girl, Good God
The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
by Jackie Hill Perry 2018 193 pages
4.36
27k+ ratings
Christian
Biography
Memoir
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