Unbroken
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
3,263-word summary · 15 min read
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer traces Chris McCandless from Emory graduation to an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in 1992, asking what drove him to seek a spare life in…
2,526-word summary · 11 min read
Becoming
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir of family, work and…
2,143-word summary · 10 min read
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs: forty interviews covering the garage, the 1985 ouster, Pixar, and the return that made the iPhone.
2,415-word summary · 11 min read