Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and everyday heroes share their transformative journeys through success, struggle, and profound change. These intimate portraits and personal stories illuminate the human spirit while offering wisdom, inspiration, and powerful lessons drawn from lived experience.
Biography Book Summaries
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Matriarch
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Words
The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy
France
Biography
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
History
Technology
Business
Letters
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
Once Upon a Time in Russia
The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
History
Russia
Politics
Sex Object
A Memoir
Feminism
Memoir
Biography
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Music
Feminism
History
My Body
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Ten Days in a Mad-House
History
Classics
Psychology
Hard Drive
Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
Biography
Business
Technology
The Money Trap
Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
Business
Finance
Biography
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Contemporary
Playing It My Way
My Autobiography
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
The Warren Buffett Way Workbook
Finance
Business
Economics
Softwar
An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
Biography
Business
Technology
The Unpublished David Ogilvy
Business
Biography
Writing
How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
In the Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Business
Technology
History
The Robber Barons
History
Business
American History
Unbreakable
My Story, My Way
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Road to Mecca
Islam
Religion
Biography
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Mountaineering
Adventure
Biography
Hour of the Heart
Connecting in the Here and Now
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
American Sniper
The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Biography
Military Fiction
History
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
50/50
Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
Sports
Fitness
Memoir
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
History
Biography
Philosophy
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
Humor
Memoir
Biography
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
History
Biography
Asia
Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Philosophy
Martial Arts
Self Help
G.I. Gurdjieff
The War Against Sleep
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Biography
Memoir
Politics
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Business
Biography
Management
Moonwalk
Biography
Music
Autobiography
A Moveable Feast
Memoir
Biography
France
Inside the House of Money
Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
Finance
Business
Economics
The Race of My Life
An Autobiography
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
Anything You Want
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Tricks of the Mind
Psychology
Magic
Science
Brown Girl Dreaming
Poetry
Memoir
Middle Grade
Coach
Lessons on the Game of Life
Sports
Baseball
Biography
