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
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
Politics
History
Memoir
Disney War
Business
History
Biography
Walt Disney
The Triumph of the American Imagination
Biography
History
Business
What in the World?!
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
A Night to Remember
History
Classics
Historical
The Fighter's Mind
Inside the Mental Game
Martial Arts
Sports
Psychology
Is That Really You, God?
Hearing the Voice of God
Christian
Biography
Faith
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
History
Adventure
Travel
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Biography
Politics
History
The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Criticism
Literature
Furiously Happy
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Biography
History
Business
Miracle in the Andes
Survival
Memoir
Adventure
My Life
Biography
Politics
History
Little Princes
One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Memoir
Book Club
Travel
Trump
How to Get Rich
Business
Self Help
Finance
Quiet Strength
The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
Christian
Leadership
Biography
Empire of the Summer Moon
History
Biography
American History
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
12 Notes
On Life and Creativity
Music
Biography
Self Help
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Business
Finance
Economics
Rosa Parks
My Story
Biography
History
Memoir
John Adams
History
Biography
American History
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership
Business
Biography
Call Sign Chaos
Learning to Lead
Leadership
Military Fiction
Biography
Forgiveness
Memoir
Canada
Book Club
Hard Choices
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Will to Keep Winning
Self Help
Biography
Games
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
Sports
Soccer
Book Club
Angela’s Ashes
Memoir
Biography
Classics
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
History
Japan
Biography
How to stand Up to a Dictator
Politics
Memoir
History
Marching Powder
Travel
Biography
Crime
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Biography
Mathematics
Science
The Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
Basketball Junkie
Memoir
Sports
Basketball
How to Think Like Socrates
Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
Philosophy
Psychology
History
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
Politics
Memoir
Biography
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
History
Book Club
World War II
Bihar Diaries
Crime
India
Biography
Great Thinkers
Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
What the Dead Know
Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Education
Disability
Memoir
The Bogle Effect
How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions
Finance
Business
Personal Finance
365 Thank Yous
The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Light We Carry
Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Danse Macabre
Horror
Writing
Essays
