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 Water Is Wide
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Indomitable
A Working Woman's Notes on Work, Life and Leadership
India
Biography
Gray Matter
A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
Christian
Medical
Memoir
Gladys Aylward
The Little Woman
Biography
Christian
China
Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Biography
History
Science
Learning from Leonardo
Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius
Science
History
Art
50 Business Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy
Business
Management
Finance
Happy People Are Annoying
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Get Me Out of Here
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
Japan
Writing
Books About Books
It's About Damn Time
How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage
Business
Memoir
Self Help
Strategy Rules
Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Business
Management
Leadership
We're Going to Need More Wine
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup
Sports
Biography
Business
Speak
Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Biography
Finance
History
How to Fail
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
History
Biography
Politics
A Heart That Works
Memoir
Grief
Biography
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
iCon
Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Biography
Business
Apple
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
Carl Jung
Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
History
Politics
Biography
Five Chimneys
A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
Holocaust
History
World War II
Dog Medicine
Memoir
Animals
Dogs
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Memoir
Death
Science
Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
History
Biography
Russia
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Economics
Biography
Politics
Orange Is the New Black
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Hard Work
A Life On and Off the Court
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
A Journey
My Political Life
Politics
Biography
History
The Money Kings
The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
History
Biography
Business
Transforming Leadership
Leadership
History
Business
Masters of Command
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
History
Leadership
Ancient History
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Science
Space
Business
Gridiron Genius
A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
Sports
Football
Leadership
This American Woman
A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Memoir
Humor
Biography
War Room
Sports
Football
Biography
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Alexander the Great
History
Biography
Ancient History
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Food
Memoir
Cooking
The Partnership
The Making of Goldman Sachs
Business
Finance
History
The Boer War
History
Africa
South Africa
How to Murder Your Life
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
