Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and extraordinary individuals share their raw truths and hard-won wisdom. Through intimate portraits and candid reflections, these books reveal the pivotal moments, bold decisions, and personal philosophies that transformed ordinary people into legendary figures.
Biography Book Summaries
My Beloved World
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Out with It
How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
History
Religion
Biography
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Spirit Run
A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Memoir
Travel
Indigenous
Brown Girl Dreaming
Poetry
Memoir
Middle Grade
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Biography
History
Journalism
Leadership in War
Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
History
Leadership
Biography
First Principles
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
History
Politics
Philosophy
Fermat's Enigma
Science
Mathematics
History
Somebody Else's Kids
Psychology
Memoir
Education
The Sound of Music Story
How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
History
Music
Biography
The Unexpected Spy
From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Bonhoeffer
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Biography
History
Christian
Keynes
The Return of the Master
Economics
History
Biography
Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House
Politics
History
Biography
Angela’s Ashes
Memoir
Biography
Classics
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
History
American History
Biography
Lucky Man
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Spy Catcher
The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
History
Espionage
Biography
The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
History
Biography
World War II
The Body Papers
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Business
Biography
Memoir
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
The House of Medici
Its Rise and Fall
History
Italy
Biography
Soros on Soros
Staying Ahead of the Curve
Finance
Biography
Economics
Every Second Counts
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Power Failure
The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
Business
History
Economics
Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Business
Technology
Biography
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
True Crime
Crime
History
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Memoir
Martial Arts
China
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Politics
History
Biography
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Business
Accounting
Memoir
The Emergency
A Personal History
India
History
Politics
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Film
History
Biography
Writing My Wrongs
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Fear
Trump in the White House
Politics
History
Biography
Heroes of the Environment
True Stories of People Who Help Protect Our Planet
Science
Biography
Environment
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
History
Medicine
Science
Confronting the Presidents
No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
History
Politics
Biography
J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker
Insight and Analysis into the Founder of Modern Finance and the American Banking System
Biography
The Alpha Masters
Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
Finance
Business
Economics
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Bits and Pieces
My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Just Another Kid
Psychology
Memoir
Education
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
Philosophy
Biography
Biography Memoir
Will
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Sound of Gravel
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
