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
Girl Code
Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Hotel Babylon
Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Travel
Memoir
Humor
The Burger King
Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire
Business
Biography
Food
Dressed Up for a Riot
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Russia
Memoir
Politics
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie
Being Muslim in America
Religion
Memoir
Islam
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
Biography
History
Historical
Whole Earth
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Biography
Science
History
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
Brown Enough
True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
The Geography of Memory
A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's
Memoir
Biography
Disability
بیحجاب
چگونه لیبرالهای غرب بر آتش اسلامگرایی رادیکال میدمند
Religion
Politics
Islam
Her Again
Becoming Meryl Streep
Biography
Biography Memoir
Memoir
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
Music
Business
Biography
Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer
Law
Biography
Autobiography
Seven More Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
The Chancellor
The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Biography
Politics
History
Mark of a Giant
Seven People Who Changed the World
History
Biography
Historical
Ghost Hunters
William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
History
Science
Paranormal
Have a New Husband by Friday
Marriage
Christian
Self Help
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
All Things Wise and Wonderful
Animals
Memoir
Biography
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Music
Biography
History
Natural Disaster
I Cover Them. I am One.
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
History
Politics
Biography
Finding My Balance
A Memoir with Yoga
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
From Miniskirt to Hijab
A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Iran
Memoir
Biography
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership
Magical Thinking
True Stories
Memoir
Humor
Short Stories
A Life on the Edge
Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
Mountaineering
Adventure
Memoir
Re-Sisters
The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Music
Biography
Memoir
Up Till Now
Biography
Autobiography
Star Trek
How to Think Like Einstein
Science
Biography
Philosophy
The Faithful Preacher
Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors
Biography
Theology
History
Crash Test Girl
An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions
Biography
Science
Memoir
The Little Locksmith
Memoir
Classics
Biography
Knocking Myself Up
A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
King David
The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
Religion
History
Biography
A Simple Government
Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington
Politics
History
Government
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Elizabeth I CEO
Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire
History
Business
Biography
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Memoir
Nigeria
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Memoir
Health
Biography
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
How Not to Get Rich
The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Biography
Finance
Biography Memoir
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
History
Biography
True Crime
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
Politics
History
American History
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
My Effin' Life
Music
Biography
Memoir
