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
Raquel
Beyond the Cleavage
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
To Risk It All
Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
History
Military Fiction
Leadership
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
Lds
Religion
Biography
What I Ate in One Year
Memoir
Food
Biography
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds
How William James Can Save Your Life
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Girl, Interrupted
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
A Curious Mind
The Secret to a Bigger Life
Self Help
Psychology
Business
The First Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
History
American History
Biography
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Storm of Steel
History
War
Biography
Yoga Girl
Health
Memoir
Spirituality
Patriot Reign
Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion
Sports
Football
Biography
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
Guns & Thighs
The Story of My Life
Biography
India
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Memoir
Food
Biography
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
History
Psychology
Biography
Prisoners of Hope
The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan
Biography
Christian
Memoir
The Rule
How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life―and How You Can Too
Finance
Biography
Personal Finance
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Art
LGBT
Bisexual
Think and Win like Dhoni
Sports
Biography
Self Help
Notes on a Silencing
A Memoir
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
The JFK Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
A Writer's Diary
Writing
Classics
Biography
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
Nada se opone a la noche
France
Roman
Memoir
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
History
Biography
Middle Grade
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
Biography
Business
History
Charles Spurgeon
Preaching Through Adversity
Biography
Christian
Theology
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
Biography
True Crime
Crime
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Classics
Poetry
Memoir
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
History
Biography
American History
Up from Slavery
History
Biography
Classics
Down and Out in Paris and London
Classics
Memoir
Biography
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
True Crime
Religion
Cults
What We Carry
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
History
Biography
Russia
More Than Enough
Claiming Space for Who You Are
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
R. C. Sproul
A Life
Biography
Christian
Theology
World Travel
An Irreverent Guide
Travel
Food
Memoir
Julie and Julia
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Memoir
Food
Cooking
Firefighters
Their Lives in Their Own Words
History
Biography
Emergency Services
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Music
Theatre
Self Help
Made in China
A Memoir of Love and Labor
Memoir
China
Biography
A Piece of Blue Sky
Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Religion
Cults
History
First Comes Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Essays
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
China
History
Politics
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
Cycling
Biography
Sports
The Man Who Shocked The World
The Life And Legacy Of Stanley Milgram
Psychology
Biography
Science
