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
The Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Business
History
Management
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Economics
Finance
History
Boy Erased
A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
Fashion
Biography
Self Help
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
History
Biography
Politics
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
Loving the Skin You're In
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
R. C. Sproul
A Life
Biography
Christian
Theology
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Politics
Memoir
History
E.R. Nurses
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Confidence Game
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
Finance
Business
Economics
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
History
Biography
American History
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Biography
Politics
Business
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
The Battle for the Soul of American Business
Business
History
Economics
Caged Lion
Joseph Pilates and His Legacy
Biography
Fitness
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
Rick Rubin
In the Studio
Music
Biography
Business
The Most Beautiful
My Life with Prince
Memoir
Biography
Music
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
A Love Letter Life
Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.
Christian
Marriage
Relationships
Meb For Mortals
Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance
Sports
Fitness
Biography
Popper Selections
Philosophy
Science
Biography
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
American Turnaround
Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Memoir
Food
Biography
Letters on Cézanne
Art
Poetry
Classics
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
Cycling
Biography
Sports
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
Biography
Music
Memoir
Is This Legal?
The Inside Story of the First UFC from the Man Who Created It
Sports
Mixed Martial Arts
Biography
Enough
Politics
Memoir
History
Lives of the Artists
Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art
Art
Biography
Essays
William Blake vs the World
Biography
Art
Poetry
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally
Food
Memoir
Cookbooks
Black Mass
True Crime
History
Crime
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
History
Westerns
Biography
The Electric Woman
A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
First Comes Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Essays
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Art
LGBT
Bisexual
William Faulkner
A Life through Novels
Biography
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
Microbe Hunters
Science
History
Biology
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Sports
Biography
History
Eternity in Their Hearts
Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
Christian
Theology
Christianity
Peace from Broken Pieces
How to Get Through What You're Going Through
Self Help
Memoir
Spirituality
