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
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
Cycling
Biography
Sports
The Man Who Shocked The World
The Life And Legacy Of Stanley Milgram
Psychology
Biography
Science
Women Who Risk
Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
Christian
Biography
Faith
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!
Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart
Memoir
Book Club
Gardening
The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally
Food
Memoir
Cookbooks
The Man Who Knew
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Biography
Economics
Finance
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
Love Without Limits
A Remarkable Story of True Love Conquering All
Christian
Biography
Inspirational
The Machinery of Life
Science
Biology
Art
A Love Letter Life
Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.
Christian
Marriage
Relationships
Getting Castaneda
Understanding Carlos Castaneda
Biography
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
Play Nice But Win
A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
Business
Biography
Leadership
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Music
Memoir
Biography
Sisters in Law
How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
History
Biography
Feminism
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
Loving the Skin You're In
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
Dinner for Vampires
Life on a Cult TV Show
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
You Have a Brain
A Teen's Guide to T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G.
Self Help
Biography
Inspirational
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie
Being Muslim in America
Religion
Memoir
Islam
The Einstein of Money
The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Biography
Finance
Business
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
History
Biography
Politics
Dressed Up for a Riot
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Russia
Memoir
Politics
English Lessons
The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith
Memoir
Christian
Faith
Nobody Ever Told Me Anything
Memoir
Biography
The Burger King
Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire
Business
Biography
Food
William Faulkner
A Life through Novels
Biography
Cooking for Kings
The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
Biography
Food
History
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Memoir
Biography
Comedy
Models of My Life
Biography
Science
Philosophy
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Sports
Biography
History
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
Biography
Humor
Memoir
Blood and Thunder
An Epic of the American West
History
American History
Biography
An Ugly Truth
Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Business
Technology
Politics
Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Politics
History
Biography
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
Biography
Music
Memoir
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Memoir
Sports
Health
Lives of the Artists
Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art
Art
Biography
Essays
Midnights with the Mystic
A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss
Spirituality
Philosophy
Religion
The Boer War
History
Africa
South Africa
Obama
From Promise to Power
Biography
Politics
History
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
Deliver Me from Nowhere
The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
Music
Biography
Music Biography
Acne
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Exile on Wall Street
One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves
Finance
Business
Economics
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Mark of a Giant
Seven People Who Changed the World
History
Biography
Historical
