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
Conspiracy
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Business
History
Politics
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
LGBT
Biography
Memoir
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
Walden on Wheels
On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Rome Sweet Home
Our Journey to Catholicism
Catholic
Religion
Faith
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Biography
Religion
Philosophy
Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House
Politics
History
Biography
One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
Military Fiction
War
History
Fear
Trump in the White House
Politics
History
Biography
Leadership in War
Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
History
Leadership
Biography
Last Man Standing
The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
Business
Biography
Finance
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Red Paint
The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Memoir
Indigenous
Biography
The Beautiful Struggle
A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Memoir
Biography
Race
Quest For Love
Memoir of a Child Sex Slave
Memoir
Biography
A Big Little Life
A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Animals
Dogs
Memoir
Just Another Kid
Psychology
Memoir
Education
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
Transforming Leadership
Leadership
History
Business
The Fighter's Mind
Inside the Mental Game
Martial Arts
Sports
Psychology
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Criticism
Literature
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Black Box
Japan
Memoir
Feminism
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Business
History
Biography
I Can't Make This Up
Life Lessons
Biography
Humor
Memoir
Eat a Peach
Memoir
Food
Biography
Lost and Founder
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Girl With No Job
The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
Memoir
Biography
Pop Culture
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
History
Science
Biography
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What I Learned While Editing My Life
Memoir
Christian
Faith
Speak
Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
Memoir
Biography
Southern
The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
History
China
Jewish
Letters to a Young Scientist
Science
Biology
Nature
Giants of Enterprise
Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Business
History
Leadership
Same Kind of Different as Me
A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Book Club
Memoir
Christian
Anne Frank
The Biography
Biography
History
Holocaust
Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Business
Technology
Biography
Tunesmith
Inside the Art of Songwriting
Music
Writing
History
In Search of The Color Purple
The Story of an American Masterpiece
History
Memoir
Biography
Power Failure
The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
Business
History
Economics
Daughters of the Samurai
A Journey from East to West and Back
History
Japan
Biography
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Biography
History
Politics
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse
Insider Business Tips from a Former Mob Boss
Business
Crime
Biography
