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 Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Sports
Basketball
History
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
Gladys Aylward
The Little Woman
Biography
Christian
China
Speak
Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
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
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Memoir
Death
Science
Fake Heroes
Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
History
Biography
Historical
War Room
Sports
Football
Biography
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Biography
Finance
History
Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
All Too Human
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Food
Memoir
Cooking
Haldol and Hyacinths
A Bipolar Life
Memoir
Mental Health
Mental Illness
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
Strategy Rules
Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Business
Management
Leadership
Lewis Hamilton
My Story
Biography
Autobiography
Sports
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
Business
Biography
History
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Bad Mormon
A Memoir
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
If We Break
A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
Chess
History
Games
Gridiron Genius
A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
Sports
Football
Leadership
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Gulag Archipelago
History
Russia
Politics
Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Bravey
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Money Kings
The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
History
Biography
Business
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Economics
Biography
Politics
Hard Work
A Life On and Off the Court
Sports
Basketball
Biography
The Killing Zone
My Life in the Vietnam War
History
War
Military Fiction
The Campaigns of Alexander
History
Classics
Biography
Pour Me
A Life
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Everything That Remains
A Memoir by The Minimalists
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
A Journey
My Political Life
Politics
Biography
History
Happy People Are Annoying
Memoir
Biography
Humor
In My Time of Dying
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Memoir
Science
Biography
No Dream Is Too High
Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
Biography
Space
Science
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Travel
Humor
Memoir
The Reluctant Billionaire
How Dilip Shanghvi Became the Richest Self-made Indian
Biography
The Dark Side of Innocence
Growing Up Bipolar
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
History
True Crime
American History
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
Paris
The Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
