Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
2,554-word summary · 11 min read
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The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
2,579-word summary · 11 min read
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
Spare
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love…
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
Running with Scissors
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
2,036-word summary · 9 min read
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
2,223-word summary · 10 min read
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.
2,562-word summary · 11 min read
Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
2,577-word summary · 11 min read
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
2,194-word summary · 10 min read
Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
Untamed
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
2,561-word summary · 11 min read