https://pithybooks.com/tags/memoir/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “memoir”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones. https://pithybooks.com/books/everything-i-know-about-love/ https://pithybooks.com/books/everything-i-know-about-love/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir. https://pithybooks.com/books/greenlights/ https://pithybooks.com/books/greenlights/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood. https://pithybooks.com/books/kitchen-confidential/ https://pithybooks.com/books/kitchen-confidential/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday. https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir. https://pithybooks.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ https://pithybooks.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup. https://pithybooks.com/books/running-with-scissors/ https://pithybooks.com/books/running-with-scissors/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules. https://pithybooks.com/books/spare/ https://pithybooks.com/books/spare/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 and painful family rifts. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hiding-place/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hiding-place/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-lecture/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-lecture/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams. https://pithybooks.com/books/three-cups-of-tea/ https://pithybooks.com/books/three-cups-of-tea/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-child-called-it/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-child-called-it/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-walk-in-the-woods/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-walk-in-the-woods/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bryson and friend Katz attempt the Appalachian Trail with blisters, bears, and laughs. https://pithybooks.com/books/crying-in-h-mart/ https://pithybooks.com/books/crying-in-h-mart/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon. https://pithybooks.com/books/hillbilly-elegy/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hillbilly-elegy/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law. https://pithybooks.com/books/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room. https://pithybooks.com/books/marley-and-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/marley-and-me/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-woman-in-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-woman-in-me/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and freedom. https://pithybooks.com/books/untamed/ https://pithybooks.com/books/untamed/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire. https://pithybooks.com/books/i-am-malala/ https://pithybooks.com/books/i-am-malala/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.