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 Friend Anne Frank
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
History
Memoir
Biography
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds
How William James Can Save Your Life
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
To Risk It All
Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
History
Military Fiction
Leadership
Savarkar
A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
History
Biography
India
Models of My Life
Biography
Science
Philosophy
George Washington
Biography
History
Presidents
A Curious Mind
The Secret to a Bigger Life
Self Help
Psychology
Business
Charles Spurgeon
Preaching Through Adversity
Biography
Christian
Theology
Sisters in Law
How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
History
Biography
Feminism
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Going Gray
What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey into Bhutan
Travel
Memoir
Asia
The Spymasters
How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
History
Politics
Espionage
The Republic of Tea
The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
History
Classics
Biography
The End of Your Life Book Club
Memoir
Book Club
Books About Books
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
Steve Jobs
The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
Biography
Business
Technology
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
Lds
Religion
Biography
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
True Crime
Crime
Horror
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
History
Science
Feminism
Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic Emperor
Philosophy
History
Biography
The Story of a Life
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
Memoir
Education
Biography Memoir
I, Rigoberta Menchú
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Memoir
History
Biography
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
History
Biography
Westerns
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Homage to Catalonia
History
Politics
Classics
Fashion Is Freedom
A Girl from Tehran and Her Rise to the Runway
Memoir
Biography
Fashion
The Art of Being Unreasonable
Lessons in Unconventional Thinking
Business
Leadership
Biography
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Business
Finance
History
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Music
Theatre
Self Help
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
A Thousand Naked Strangers
a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Memoir
Medical
Medicine
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Memoir
Music
Feminism
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Music
Memoir
Biography
Love and Math
The Heart of Hidden Reality
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Music
Biography
History
On the Shoulders of Giants
My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
History
Sports
Biography
The Road Beneath My Feet
Music
Biography
Memoir
The JFK Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Women Who Risk
Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
Christian
Biography
Faith
Walk the Blue Line
They Walk the Line between Life and Death
True Crime
Crime
Biography
The Man Who Knew
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Biography
Economics
Finance
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
True Crime
Religion
Cults
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
Biography
Business
History
A Piece of Blue Sky
Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Religion
Cults
History
What's It All About
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
