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The Puzzler Summary
The Puzzler
One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
by A.J. Jacobs 2022 368 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Puzzles
Late Bloomer Summary
Late Bloomer
How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life
by Clem Bastow 2021 272 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Disability
All My Knotted-Up Life Summary
All My Knotted-Up Life
A Memoir
by Beth Moore 2023 304 pages
4.43
46k+ ratings
Memoir
Christian
Biography
A Life on Our Planet Summary
A Life on Our Planet
My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
by David Attenborough 2020 272 pages
4.50
35k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Environment
A Boy Named Shel Summary
A Boy Named Shel
The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
by Lisa Rogak 2007 256 pages
3.42
500+ ratings
Biography
Biography Memoir
Music
The God of the Garden Summary
The God of the Garden
Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
by Andrew Peterson 2021 224 pages
4.47
5k+ ratings
Christian
Memoir
Faith
Who Is Michael Ovitz? Summary
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
by Michael Ovitz 2018 384 pages
4.21
2k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
Flash Summary
Flash
ou le grand voyage
by Charles Duchaussois 1971 704 pages
4.31
2k+ ratings
Biography
Classics
Travel
Catfish and Mandala Summary
Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X. Pham 1999 344 pages
3.99
6k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
Asia
The Situation and the Story Summary
The Situation and the Story
The Art of Personal Narrative
by Vivian Gornick 2001 174 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Essays
Aflame Summary
Aflame
Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer 2025 234 pages
3.79
1k+ ratings
Spirituality
Memoir
Philosophy
Everything Happens for a Reason Summary
Everything Happens for a Reason
And Other Lies I've Loved
by Kate Bowler 2018 178 pages
3.80
53k+ ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
The Living Stones Summary
The Living Stones
Cornwall
by Ithell Colquhoun 1957 204 pages
3.99
167 ratings
Travel
History
Nature
Sins of My Father Summary
Sins of My Father
Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist
by Kelvin Pierce 2020 301 pages
3.79
62 ratings
History
Race
Memoir
Heavier Than Heaven Summary
Heavier Than Heaven
A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross 2001 381 pages
4.12
35k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Girls Who Went Away Summary
The Girls Who Went Away
The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler 2006 354 pages
4.24
11k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Adoption
The Growing Season Summary
The Growing Season
How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life
by Sarah Frey 2020 272 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Food
Adorning the Dark Summary
Adorning the Dark
Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
by Andrew Peterson 2019 224 pages
4.50
7k+ ratings
Christian
Writing
Christian Living
Wild Life Summary
Wild Life
Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
by Rae Wynn-Grant 2024 269 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Nature
Science
Our Dear Friends in Moscow Summary
Our Dear Friends in Moscow
The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
by Irina Borogan 2025 336 pages
4.15
196 ratings
Russia
History
Politics
Learning to Fall Summary
Learning to Fall
The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
by Philip Simmons 2000 176 pages
4.19
498 ratings
Spirituality
Memoir
Grief
This Beautiful Truth Summary
This Beautiful Truth
How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness
by Sarah Clarkson 2021 212 pages
4.51
2k+ ratings
Christian
Memoir
Faith
Writing Creativity and Soul Summary
Writing Creativity and Soul
by Sue Monk Kidd 2025 240 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
Do You See What I See? Summary
Do You See What I See?
Memoirs of a Blind Biker
by Russell Targ 2008 296 pages
3.80
56 ratings
Science
Memoir
The Mechanic Summary
The Mechanic
The Secret World of the F1 Pitlane
by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley 2017 243 pages
4.22
4k+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Arctic Homestead Summary
Arctic Homestead
The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
by Norma Cobb 2000 320 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Adventure
Biography
Liturgies of the Wild Summary
Liturgies of the Wild
Myths That Make Us
by Martin Shaw 2026 256 pages
4.40
500+ ratings
Mythology
Philosophy
Religion
Wavewalker Summary
Wavewalker
Breaking Free
by Suzanne Heywood 2023 416 pages
4.23
9k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Beginner's Pluck Summary
Beginner's Pluck
Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now
by Liz Forkin Bohannon 2019 240 pages
4.37
1k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence Summary
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
Reflections on Then and Now
by Peter Mayle 2019 192 pages
3.93
4k+ ratings
Travel
Memoir
France
Trans Like Me Summary
Trans Like Me
Conversations for All of Us
by C.N. Lester 2017 240 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
LGBT
Queer
Gender
That Librarian Summary
That Librarian
The Fight Against Book Banning in America
by Amanda Jones 2024 288 pages
3.73
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Politics
Books About Books
Raise the Bar Summary
Raise the Bar
An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions
by Jon Taffer 2013 256 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Business
Ebooks
Memoir
Kingbird Highway Summary
Kingbird Highway
The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
by Kenn Kaufman 1997 320 pages
4.30
2k+ ratings
Birds
Nature
Memoir
Zami Summary
Zami
A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde 1982 256 pages
4.40
24k+ ratings
Memoir
Queer
Feminism
Party of One Summary
Party of One
The Loner's Manifesto
by Anneli Rufus 2003 286 pages
3.71
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer Summary
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
by Joel Salatin 2010 300 pages
4.26
462 ratings
Food
Agriculture
Gardening
The Sweetness of Doing Nothing Summary
The Sweetness of Doing Nothing
by Sophie Minchilli 2021 288 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
Italy
Travel
Philosophy
My Family and Other Animals Summary
My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell 1956 273 pages
4.16
64k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Struck Summary
Struck
One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
by Russ Ramsey 2017 176 pages
4.43
253 ratings
Christian
Faith
Memoir
Dear Senthuran Summary
Dear Senthuran
A Black Spirit Memoir
by Akwaeke Emezi 2021 240 pages
4.27
4k+ ratings
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein 1933 252 pages
3.54
13k+ ratings
Biography
Classics
Memoir
The Latehomecomer Summary
The Latehomecomer
A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 pages
4.18
8k+ ratings
Memoir
Book Club
History
I'll Be Gone in the Dark Summary
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara 2018 352 pages
4.11
200k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
Streetwise Summary
Streetwise
Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs
by Lloyd Blankfein 2026 400 pages
4.41
500+ ratings
Business
Biography
Finance
Of Water and the Spirit Summary
Of Water and the Spirit
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
by Malidoma Patrice Somé 1994 311 pages
4.41
1k+ ratings
Spirituality
Africa
Memoir
The Hiding Place Summary
The Hiding Place
The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by Corrie ten Boom 1971 242 pages
4.48
300k+ ratings
Biography
History
Christian
Travels with Charley Summary
Travels with Charley
In Search of America
by John Steinbeck 1961 214 pages
4.08
100k+ ratings
Travel
Classics
Memoir
The Earth Is Enough Summary
The Earth Is Enough
Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
by Harry Middleton 1989 228 pages
4.35
500+ ratings
Memoir
Nature
Outdoors
Mothering by the Book Summary
Mothering by the Book
The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy
by Jennifer Pepito 2022 240 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Parenting
Books About Books
Education
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