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
On Writing
Writing
Classics
Literature
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
History
Politics
Memoir
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Memoir
China
Biography
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
Bringing Up Bébé
One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Parenting
Memoir
France
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Mao's America
A Survivor’s Warning
Politics
History
China
How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Parenting
Self Help
Relationships
Slow
Simple Living for a Frantic World
Self Help
Personal Development
Health
Chasing Chaos
My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Memoir
Travel
Africa
Coach K
The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
History
Memoir
Espionage
Still Here
Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
Spirituality
Death
Self Help
The Dark Side of the Mind
True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
There Is No Ethan
How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Choosing to Run
A Memoir
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Inciting Joy
Essays
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
The Big Truck that Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
History
Politics
International Development
Writing the Memoir
Writing
Memoir
Crafts
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
Biography
Philosophy
Memoir
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Red Paint
The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Memoir
Indigenous
Biography
I Can't Make This Up
Life Lessons
Biography
Humor
Memoir
Our Malady
Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Politics
History
Medicine
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Biography
Business
Memoir
How Stella Learned to Talk
The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Animals
Dogs
Science
Beyond Borderline
True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
Men Explain Things to Me
Feminism
Essays
Politics
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Politics
Social Justice
History
Long Walk to Freedom
Biography
History
Memoir
Brothers
Music
Biography
Memoir
Minimalism
Live a Meaningful Life
Self Help
Personal Development
Philosophy
No Impact Man
Environment
Memoir
Sustainability
The Beauty of Dusk
Memoir
Biography
Medical
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
History
Politics
Memoir
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers
Memoir
LGBT
Humor
Every Tool's a Hammer
Life Is What You Make It
Biography
Memoir
Science
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Walking to Listen
4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Memoir
Education
Business
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Biography
Politics
History
Madly, Deeply
The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
High Achiever
The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Book Club
Memoir
Biography
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic
Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Bad Mormon
A Memoir
Memoir
Religion
Biography
