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
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
The Mind of Wall Street
Finance
Economics
Business
The Campaigns of Alexander
History
Classics
Biography
The Electric Woman
A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
History
Crime
True Crime
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
My Friend Anne Frank
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
History
Memoir
Biography
Mark of a Giant
Seven People Who Changed the World
History
Biography
Historical
American Turnaround
Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA
Business
Biography
Autobiography
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership
The Geography of Memory
A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's
Memoir
Biography
Disability
Bad Mormon
A Memoir
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Blackbeard
America's Most Notorious Pirate
History
Pirates
Biography
Finding My Balance
A Memoir with Yoga
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
41-Love
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Politics
History
Leadership
Waking Up in Paris
Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light
Memoir
France
Travel
On the Shoulders of Giants
My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
History
Sports
Biography
Caged Lion
Joseph Pilates and His Legacy
Biography
Fitness
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Music
Biography
History
Whole Earth
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Biography
Science
History
Peace from Broken Pieces
How to Get Through What You're Going Through
Self Help
Memoir
Spirituality
Happiness Is a Choice You Make
Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
Self Help
Psychology
Health
A Simple Government
Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington
Politics
History
Government
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Civil War
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
History
Politics
Biography
Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic Emperor
Philosophy
History
Biography
Unfollow
A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Politics
Biography
History
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
Sidecountry
Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
Sports
Adventure
Essays
Nala's World
One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe
Travel
Animals
Memoir
A Fierce Love
One Woman’s Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage
Christian
Marriage
Biography
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Art of Being Unreasonable
Lessons in Unconventional Thinking
Business
Leadership
Biography
The Faithful Preacher
Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors
Biography
Theology
History
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
Biography
History
Historical
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
I Am Jennie
Memoir
Biography
Sexuality
One Hundred Names for Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Gulag Archipelago
History
Russia
Politics
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
Music
Business
Biography
The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
Music
Memoir
Biography
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Memoir
Nigeria
Brown Enough
True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
History
Science
Feminism
Rick Rubin
In the Studio
Music
Biography
Business
