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
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
Shut Up and Run
How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
Fitness
Self Help
Sports
Girls Who Rocked The World
Heroines From Anne Frank to Natalie Portman
Biography
History
Feminism
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
Hedge Hogging
Finance
Business
Economics
Going Gray
What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Tramp for the Lord
Christian
Biography
History
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Biography
Technology
True Crime
Organic Chemistry
Chemistry
Science
Textbooks
Back to Earth
What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet―And Our Mission to Protect It
Space
Science
Biography
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
History
Engineering
Science
Smith Wigglesworth
Apostle of Faith
Christian
Biography
Faith
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Living with the Monks
What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
What's It All About
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Now I Am Known
Memoir
Biography
Adoption
Fortitude
American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
Politics
Biography
Self Help
Home in the World
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Economics
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Politics
Memoir
History
Fashion Is Freedom
A Girl from Tehran and Her Rise to the Runway
Memoir
Biography
Fashion
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
The Battle for the Soul of American Business
Business
History
Economics
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
History
True Crime
American History
The Real Anthony Fauci
Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Politics
Health
History
Alexander the Great
History
Biography
Ancient History
Lenin
A Biography
History
Biography
Russia
You Learn by Living
Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Self Help
Memoir
Biography
The Republic of Pirates
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
History
Pirates
Historical
The Spymasters
How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
History
Politics
Espionage
The Story of a Life
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
Tough Broad
From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
Health
Memoir
Nature
Meb For Mortals
Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance
Sports
Fitness
Biography
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Dr. Seuss and Philosophy
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Philosophy
Essays
Childrens
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
Social Justice
Theology
Christian
Playing With Fire
Biography
Autobiography
Cooking
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
A Memoir. . . of Sorts
Memoir
Biography
Christian
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The White Darkness
History
Biography
Adventure
Restaurant Man
Food
Memoir
Biography
George Washington
Biography
History
Presidents
Girl Logic
The Genius and the Absurdity
Humor
Memoir
Comedy
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
True Crime
Science
Memoir
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
History
Art
Architecture
Isaac Newton
Biography
Science
History
Black Mass
True Crime
History
Crime
The Essential Vince Lombardi
Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win
Biography
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
Lds
Religion
Biography
The Habsburgs
To Rule the World
History
European History
Biography
Lewis Hamilton
My Story
Biography
Autobiography
Sports
