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
Hot Seat
Business
Leadership
Biography
In Good Company
The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience
Religion
Spirituality
Biography
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Any Ordinary Day
Book Club
Psychology
Biography
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Business
Technology
History
Blackbeard
America's Most Notorious Pirate
History
Pirates
Biography
Prisoner
My 544 Days in an Iranian PrisonβSolitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
Memoir
Iran
Biography
The Third Wave
An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
Business
Entrepreneurship
Technology
The Upstairs Wife
An Intimate History of Pakistan
Pakistan
History
Memoir
No Greater Love
Religion
Christian
Catholic
Think and Win like Dhoni
Sports
Biography
Self Help
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Politics
Biography
History
Wine to Water
A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
Memoir
Africa
Biography
You're Never Weird on the Internet
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Notes To Self
Essays
Feminism
Memoir
Charles Dickens in Love
Biography
British Literature
Literature
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Essays
Memoir
Writing
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Biography
Memoir
Self Help
Homage to Catalonia
History
Politics
Classics
Little Angels
Life as a Novice Monk in Thailand
Biography
Buddhism
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
Role Models
Memoir
Essays
Biography
Aussie Grit
My Formula One Journey
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
If You Find This Letter
My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Memoir
Biography
Writing
Think Like Zuck
The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Business
Leadership
Technology
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Travel
Memoir
Greece
Julie and Julia
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Memoir
Food
Cooking
Up from Slavery
History
Biography
Classics
The First Family Detail
Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
History
Politics
Presidents
Highcastle
A Remembrance
Biography
Polish Literature
Literature
The Facts
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Politics
Biography
Government
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Power
History
Biography
Presidents
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Memoir
Biography
Travel
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
History
Biography
Religion
Nala's World
One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe
Travel
Animals
Memoir
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
Biography
Memoir
France
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Economics
Finance
History
Measure of a Man
From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor
History
Biography
Holocaust
Days of Fire
Bush and Cheney in the White House
History
Politics
Biography
The Calculus of Friendship
What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
History
Jewish
Memoir
Gray Matters
A Biography of Brain Surgery
Science
Medicine
Medical
The Imam's Daughter
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Smith Wigglesworth
Secret of His Power
Christian
Biography
Christian Non Fiction
The Man Watching
A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever
Biography
Sports
Soccer
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Memoir
True Crime
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