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
A Nurse's Story
My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Biography
History
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
History
Biography
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Education
Memoir
Biography
The Barefoot Lawyer
A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
China
Memoir
Biography
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Better to Live
Psychology
Biography
Memoir
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
History
Biography
Westerns
He Said, She Said
Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love
How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation
Biography
Christian
Memoir
The Long Slide
Thirty Years in American Journalism
Politics
History
Biography
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Unlearning Race
Memoir
Race
Politics
A History of Islam in 21 Women
Islam
History
Religion
A Lion's Tale
Around the World in Spandex
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
History
Philosophy
Biography
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Memoir
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Music
Biography
Memoir
Humanly Possible
Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Philosophy
History
Biography
Dr. Deming
The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality
Business
Management
Leadership
Targeted
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Politics
Technology
Memoir
Under Their Thumb
How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones
Music
Biography
Memoir
Becoming Leonardo
An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Biography
History
Art
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Finance
Business
Economics
Raiders and Rebels
The Golden Age of Piracy
History
Pirates
True Crime
Elon Musk
The Greatest Lessons Through the Inspiring Life of Elon Musk
Biography
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Case for Trump
Politics
History
Biography
Bagehot
The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Biography
Economics
History
Audition
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
Music
Biography
Memoir
Get Out of Your Own Way
A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
Self Help
Personal Development
Psychology
The Personality Brokers
The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Psychology
History
Science
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
Leonardo and the Last Supper
History
Art
Biography
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Tall Order
The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1
Biography
Politics
History
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
History
Memoir
Asia
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
History
Biography
War
Rommel
Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders
History
Leadership
World War II
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
History
War
Military Fiction
The Melting Point
High Command and War in the 21st Century
Military Fiction
History
Memoir
Life Is Short, Laundry Is Eternal
Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad
Parenting
Memoir
Humor
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
History
Military History
Military Fiction
Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
History
Business
Economics
What On Earth Have I Done?
Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
Objective Secure
The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement
Military Fiction
Self Help
Biography
