| The Smartest Man is Hard to Find | p. 3 | |
| The Man Who Remembered Too Much | p. 21 | |
| The Expert Expert | p. 49 | |
| The Most Forgetful Man in the World | p. 69 | |
| The Memory Palace | p. 89 | |
| How to Memorize a Poem | p. 107 | |
| The End of Remembering | p. 137 | |
| The Ok Plateau | p. 163 | |
| The Talented Tenth | p. 187 | |
| The Little Rain Man in All of Us | p. 211 | |
| The U.S. Memory Championship | p. 237 | |
| Epilogue | p. 259 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 273 | |
| Notes | p. 275 | |
| Bibliography | p. 289 | |
| Index | p. 299 |