Biography Book Summaries

Too Much and Never Enough Summary
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump 2020 236 pages
3.82
94.0K ratings
Biography
Politics
Memoir
I Am Ozzy Summary
I Am Ozzy
by Ozzy Osbourne 2009 391 pages
4.11
30.1K ratings
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Meaning
A Young Adult Edition
by Viktor E. Frankl 2017 192 pages
4.41
2.8K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
The Outsiders Summary
The Outsiders
Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William N. Thorndike Jr. 2012 251 pages
4.22
12.7K ratings
Business
Finance
Leadership
Making Movies Summary
Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet 1995 218 pages
4.28
9.3K ratings
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Memories, Dreams, Reflections Summary
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C.G. Jung 1962 430 pages
4.17
36.8K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Biography
Be Ready When the Luck Happens Summary
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten 2024 320 pages
4.27
83.2K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
91.5K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography Summary
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography
The Story Of My Experiments With Truth
by M.K. Gandhi 2020 649 pages
4.05
428 ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson 2011 630 pages
4.15
1.3M ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
The Baburnama Summary
The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
by Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur 1531 608 pages
3.95
755 ratings
History
Biography
India
Mind Hunter Summary
Mind Hunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John E. Douglas 1995 397 pages
4.09
77.3K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Psychology
In Order to Live Summary
In Order to Live
A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park 2015 273 pages
4.49
97.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Wild Summary
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed 2012 336 pages
4.07
843.1K ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Travel
From the Ashes Summary
From the Ashes
My Story of Being MΓ©tis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
by Jesse Thistle 2019 368 pages
4.49
32.8K ratings
Memoir
Indigenous
Canada
How To Build A Car Summary
How To Build A Car
by Adrian Newey 2017 400 pages
4.47
12.1K ratings
Biography
Sports
Engineering
My Story Summary
My Story
by Elizabeth Smart 2013 308 pages
3.88
46.1K ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
By Way of Deception Summary
By Way of Deception
The Making of a Mossad Officer
by Victor Ostrovsky 1990 372 pages
3.91
2.0K ratings
History
Espionage
Politics
Becoming Steve Jobs Summary
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender 2015 464 pages
4.14
16.8K ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
Messi vs. Ronaldo Summary
Messi vs. Ronaldo
One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
by Joshua Robinson 2022 320 pages
4.19
650 ratings
Sports
Football
Soccer
Hatching Twitter Summary
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton 2013 299 pages
4.04
18.8K ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
I May Be Wrong Summary
I May Be Wrong
And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk
by BjΓΆrn Natthiko Lindeblad 2020 257 pages
4.27
11.0K ratings
Biography
Philosophy
Self Help
Unbroken Summary
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand 2010 475 pages
4.39
982.2K ratings
History
Biography
Book Club
Serve to Win Summary
Serve to Win
The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence
by Novak Djokovic 2013 192 pages
3.89
3.3K ratings
Health
Biography
Sports
A Street Cat Named Bob Summary
A Street Cat Named Bob
by James Bowen 2012 279 pages
3.99
58.7K ratings
Animals
Biography
Cats
Just Kids Summary
Just Kids
by Patti Smith 2010 304 pages
4.21
325.1K ratings
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Reason You Walk Summary
The Reason You Walk
by Wab Kinew 2015 273 pages
4.05
3.7K ratings
Indigenous
Memoir
Canada
Why I Am An Atheist Summary
Why I Am An Atheist
An Autobiographical Discourse
by Bhagat Singh 1931 91 pages
4.43
5.8K ratings
History
Philosophy
India
Sociopath Summary
Sociopath
A Memoir
by Patric Gagne 2024 368 pages
3.76
68.8K ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
American Icon Summary
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
by Bryce G. Hoffman 2012 432 pages
4.42
4.9K ratings
Business
Biography
Leadership
The Boys in the Boat Summary
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown 2013 404 pages
4.39
348.4K ratings
History
Book Club
Sports
Founders at Work Summary
Founders at Work
Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston 2001 456 pages
4.02
37.2K ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
Ghost in the Wires Summary
Ghost in the Wires
My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin D. Mitnick 2011 413 pages
3.96
26.7K ratings
Biography
Technology
Memoir
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Summary
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams 2013 248 pages
4.05
20.1K ratings
Self Help
Business
Biography
A Matter of Death and Life Summary
A Matter of Death and Life
by Irvin D. Yalom 2021 240 pages
4.40
8.5K ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Philosophy
The Shah Summary
The Shah
by Abbas Milani 2007 496 pages
4.23
1.2K ratings
History
Iran
Biography
When Breath Becomes Air Summary
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 pages
4.41
752.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre 1923 308 pages
4.18
19.5K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Lab Girl Summary
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren 2016 290 pages
3.98
70.4K ratings
Science
Memoir
Biography
Ignited Minds Summary
Ignited Minds
Unleashing the Power Within India
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2002 222 pages
4.03
11.8K ratings
India
Self Help
Inspirational
Into Thin Air Summary
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer 1997 368 pages
4.25
543.4K ratings
Adventure
Memoir
Travel
The Trial and Death of Socrates Summary
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato 58 pages
4.12
44.4K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Into the Magic Shop Summary
Into the Magic Shop
A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
by James R. Doty 2016 288 pages
4.22
25.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Memoir
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Summary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X 1965 466 pages
4.37
282.3K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Everything I Know About Love Summary
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton 2018 368 pages
3.96
439.5K ratings
Memoir
Romance
Self Help
Greenlights Summary
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey 2020 289 pages
4.20
412.0K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3.2K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Thinking Machine Summary
The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt 2025 272 pages
4.33
204 ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Titan Summary
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow 1998 832 pages
4.16
34.7K ratings
Biography
History
Business
American Like Me Summary
American Like Me
Reflections on Life Between Cultures
by America Ferrera 2018 337 pages
4.33
6.3K ratings
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
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