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
Red Roulette
An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
China
Politics
Business
Madam Ambassador
Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Biography
Memoir
Travel
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
Workhorse
My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene
Memoir
Food
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Comandante ad Auschwitz
History
Holocaust
Biography
Talking as Fast as I Can
From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
Memoir
Biography
Humor
A Class of Their Own
Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Biography
Politics
Memoir
On Muscle
The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
Science
Health
Memoir
Decoded
Music
Biography
Memoir
Life Is a Verb
37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
Self Help
Memoir
Art
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
Solo
Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand
Memoir
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Paper Girl
A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Memoir
History
Biography
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Memoir
Business
Leadership
What a Girl Wants
A (True) Story of Sexuality and Self-discovery
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Struck By Genius
How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Memoir
Science
Biography
The Best Minds
A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Memoir
Psychology
True Crime
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
On Becoming an Artist
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Art
Psychology
Self Help
Gene Machine
The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Science
Biology
Biography
The Invisible Kingdom
Reimagining Chronic Illness
Memoir
Health
Science
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
Screaming on the Inside
The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
Parenting
Feminism
Memoir
The Forest People
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
He Came to Set the Captives Free
Christian
Religion
Christian Non Fiction
Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
Graphic Novels
Memoir
Comics
Just Add Water
My Swimming Life
Memoir
Sports
Biography
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Infidel
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Deep Undercover
My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
History
Biography
Espionage
Trivial Grievances
On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Essays
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Dark Squares
How Chess Saved My Life
Chess
Memoir
Biography
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Memoir
Grief
Mental Health
Gay Girl, Good God
The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Raising Hare
A Memoir
Memoir
Nature
Animals
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Books About Books
Essays
Adult
Wild Rescues
A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
Memoir
Outdoors
Adventure
In the Land of Pain
Memoir
France
Autobiography
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Memoir
Essays
Canada
You Can’t Be Serious
Memoir
Humor
Biography
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
Freezing Order
Politics
History
Russia
The Latehomecomer
A Hmong Family Memoir
Memoir
Book Club
History
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
Memoir
Mental Health
Crusade for Justice
The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
History
Biography
Memoir
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck
An Everyman’s Guide to a Meaningful Life
Self Help
Psychology
Health
