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
Mindgames
Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey
Sports
Basketball
Biography
The Way of the Hermit
My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
Memoir
Nature
Biography
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
History
Biography
Religion
Little Angels
Life as a Novice Monk in Thailand
Biography
Buddhism
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
History
Biography
Japan
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Business
Leadership
Management
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Politics
Biography
Government
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
Biography
Animals
Memoir
How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Science
Biology
Nature
You Belong to the Universe
Buckminster Fuller and the Future
Biography
Science
Architecture
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
A Memoir
Memoir
Science
Biography
Melania and Me
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Papa Hemingway
Biography
History
Memoir
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
History
Psychology
26 Marathons
What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Where White Men Fear to Tread
The Autobiography of Russell Means
Native American
Biography
History
In Defense of Open Society
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Walking with Ghosts
Memoir
Biography
Ireland
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Health
Science
Goodbye, Sweet Girl
A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Power
History
Biography
Presidents
If You Find This Letter
My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Memoir
Biography
Writing
Before I Forget
Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
Biography
Health
Memoir
A Lab of One's Own
One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
Science
Feminism
Memoir
The New One
Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
Humor
Memoir
Parenting
The Man Watching
A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever
Biography
Sports
Soccer
I'm a Joke and So Are You
Reflections on Humour and Humanity
Humor
Psychology
Science
Charles Dickens in Love
Biography
British Literature
Literature
Go For the Goal
A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
Sports
Soccer
Autobiography
Tune In
Music
Biography
History
How to Think Like Bill Gates
Biography
Business
Jerusalem
The Biography
History
Religion
Biography
The World's Banker
A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Economics
Finance
Biography
A Life in Parts
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
History
Military Fiction
War
The Age of Turbulence
Economics
Biography
Business
The Facts
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Any Ordinary Day
Book Club
Psychology
Biography
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
In My Time
A Personal and Political Memoir
Biography
Politics
History
Prisoner
My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Fake Heroes
Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
History
Biography
Historical
One from Many
VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Business
Leadership
Finance
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Biography
Memoir
Self Help
The Imam's Daughter
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Memoir
History
Biography
The Calculus of Friendship
What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
Mathematics
Science
Biography
