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
What Makes a Marriage Last
40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life
Relationships
Marriage
Self Help
Obama
From Promise to Power
Biography
Politics
History
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Class
A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Getting Acquired
How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Peace from Broken Pieces
How to Get Through What You're Going Through
Self Help
Memoir
Spirituality
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Long Slide
Thirty Years in American Journalism
Politics
History
Biography
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Health
Science
Seven More Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
History
Politics
Biography
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Memoir
Music
Feminism
I Must Say
My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
A Love Letter Life
Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.
Christian
Marriage
Relationships
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
Music
Business
Biography
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
History
Biography
American History
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
Social Justice
Theology
Christian
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
E.R. Nurses
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
The Republic of Tea
The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Dr. Seuss and Philosophy
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Philosophy
Essays
Childrens
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Politics
History
Leadership
Confidence Game
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
Finance
Business
Economics
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Music
Memoir
Biography
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Civil War
Unfollow
A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Objective Secure
The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement
Military Fiction
Self Help
Biography
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
Music
Biography
Jazz
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
History
Biography
Politics
The Real Mad Men
The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
History
Business
Biography
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
Biography
Humor
Memoir
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Art
LGBT
Bisexual
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
Cycling
Biography
Sports
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
The Apprentice
My Life in the Kitchen
Food
Memoir
Biography
Mark Twain
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart
Memoir
Book Club
Gardening
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
English Lessons
The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith
Memoir
Christian
Faith
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Memoir
Politics
Biography
Reading the Constitution
Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Politics
Law
History
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
Have a New Husband by Friday
Marriage
Christian
Self Help
