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
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
History
Biography
Politics
Flying Scotsman
Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest Hours
Cycling
Biography
Autobiography
Unbearable Lightness
A Story of Loss and Gain
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
The Basketball Diaries
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Einstein and the Rabbi
Searching for the Soul
Judaism
Religion
Spirituality
The Vaccine
Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
Science
History
Medicine
Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl
And Why You Should, Too
Finance
Business
Money
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Travel
Memoir
Greece
The Virgin Way
Everything I Know About Leadership
Business
Leadership
Biography
Women in the Valley of the Kings
The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
History
Egypt
Biography
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
Biography
History
Africa
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
History
American History
Biography
Return to the Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple
Business
Biography
Apple
Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
How to Think Like da Vinci
Biography
Art
Memoir
Michael O'Leary
Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair
Business
Biography
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Did I Ever Tell You?
Memoir
Grief
Death
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Biography
Business
Finance
Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Biography
History
Politics
Undaunted Courage
The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
History
Biography
American History
The Audacity to Win
The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
Politics
History
Biography
Step by Step
The Life In My Journeys
Travel
Biography
Autobiography
What Makes a Marriage Last
40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life
Relationships
Marriage
Self Help
Coach Wooden
The 7 Principles That Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours
Biography
Sports
Self Help
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castaneda
Biography
Memoir
New Age
Mover Of Men and Mountains
Biography
Christian
Business
Crazy for God
How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
Religion
Memoir
Biography
On Pluto
Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Psychology
Health
7 Lessons from Heaven
How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life
Christian
Spirituality
Religion
Becoming Kim Jong Un
A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
History
Biography
Politics
The Perfect Mile
Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Sports
History
Biography
Hegarty on Advertising
Business
Design
Memoir
From Fear to Freedom
Living as Sons and Daughters of God
Christian
Memoir
Theology
A Life of Crime
The Memoirs of a High Court Judge
Law
Biography
True Crime
Faith Under Fire
What the Middle East Conflict Has Taught me About God
Christianity
Christian
Biography
The Real Mad Men
The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
History
Business
Biography
I Stand Corrected
How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson
Memoir
China
Biography
Somewhere Towards the End
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Danger Music
Music
Biography
Book Club
The Wives
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Military Fiction
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Finance
Economics
Biography
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Economics
Finance
Business
Never Far from Home
My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Memoir
Autobiography
Business
