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
Have a New Husband by Friday
Marriage
Christian
Self Help
On Jung
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
In the Presence of My Enemies
Biography
Christian
Memoir
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Politics
Memoir
History
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
41-Love
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
A History of Islam in 21 Women
Islam
History
Religion
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
A Numerate Life
A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Power Play
Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs
Politics
Feminism
Australia
The Case for Trump
Politics
History
Biography
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
History
Biography
War
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King
Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
Biography
Business
Biography Memoir
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Always with Honor
The Memoirs of General Wrangel
History
Russia
Biography
First Comes Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Essays
Her Again
Becoming Meryl Streep
Biography
Biography Memoir
Memoir
Walk the Blue Line
They Walk the Line between Life and Death
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Memoir
Sports
Health
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Sports
Biography
History
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Politics
History
American History
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
Biography
History
Historical
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Memoir
Food
Biography
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
The Road Beneath My Feet
Music
Biography
Memoir
Force of Nature
Mind, Body, Soul
Biography
Sports
Fitness
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Politics
History
Russia
The Melting Point
High Command and War in the 21st Century
Military Fiction
History
Memoir
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
Getting Castaneda
Understanding Carlos Castaneda
Biography
The Electric Woman
A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
41
A Portrait of My Father
Biography
History
Politics
Old Rage
Memoir
Autobiography
Book Club
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
History
Memoir
Asia
Knocking Myself Up
A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
A Life on the Edge
Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
Mountaineering
Adventure
Memoir
One Hundred Names for Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
Black Mass
True Crime
History
Crime
A Fierce Love
One Woman’s Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage
Christian
Marriage
Biography
Finding My Balance
A Memoir with Yoga
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
