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
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Memoir
Politics
Biography
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
Memoir
Science
Medical
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying―and Learning How to Live Again
Memoir
Biography
Medical
We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Philosophy
Biography
Politics
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Biography
Economics
History
Whale Hunt in the Desert
Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
Biography
T is for Transformation
Personal Development
Self Help
Biography
Stand Before Your God
An American Schoolboy in England
Memoir
Boarding School
Biography
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Politics
Memoir
Leadership
Facing the Lion
Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Africa
Memoir
Biography
Iron Man
My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
Three Pianos
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
Becoming Free Indeed
My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
Memoir
Christian
Biography
Reading the Constitution
Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Politics
Law
History
A Long Way Home
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
Mathematics
Science
Economics
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
Adventures in Anxiety
Memoir
Mental Health
Humor
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Economics
Politics
Business
The Backyard Parables
Lessons on Gardening, and Life
Gardening
Memoir
Nature
The Apprentice
My Life in the Kitchen
Food
Memoir
Biography
The Master of Disguise
My Secret Life in the CIA
History
Biography
Espionage
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera
Ireland
History
Biography
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
The Wrath of Cochise
The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
History
American History
Biography
The Reconnection
Heal Others, Heal Yourself
Spirituality
Health
New Age
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Politics
History
Russia
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
41
A Portrait of My Father
Biography
History
Politics
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
A Brilliant Life
My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
Music
Biography
History
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
Sports
Football
Biography
Amazon
How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce
Business
Biography
Economics
Vintage Saints and Sinners
25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith
Christian
Biography
Religion
Most Talkative
Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Why We Love Pirates
The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
History
Pirates
Historical
Unbelievable
Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
Paranormal
Science
History
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
History
Biography
War
On Jung
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
Off the Deep End
The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife Crises, And Qualify For the Olympics
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Finance
Business
Economics
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
The Year of Reading Dangerously
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
What Seems To Be The Problem?
Memoir
Medical
Medicine
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Lead with Humility
12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
Leadership
Religion
Business
