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
I, Rigoberta Menchú
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Memoir
History
Biography
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Economics
Politics
Business
We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Philosophy
Biography
Politics
Targeted
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Politics
Technology
Memoir
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years
Memoir
Biography
Sports
Chinese Cinderella
The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Memoir
Biography
China
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Finance
Business
Economics
Stand Before Your God
An American Schoolboy in England
Memoir
Boarding School
Biography
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
A Boy Without Hope
Fostering
Mental Health
Biography
Three Pianos
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
Shivaji
The Grand Rebel
History
Biography
India
Have a New Husband by Friday
Marriage
Christian
Self Help
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Politics
History
Russia
A Brilliant Life
My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Holocaust
Biography
History
Magical Thinking
True Stories
Memoir
Humor
Short Stories
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
Before My Heart Stops
A Memoir
Lds
Memoir
Book Club
The Personality Brokers
The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Psychology
History
Science
Rommel
Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders
History
Leadership
World War II
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Unlearning Race
Memoir
Race
Politics
Black Like Me
History
Memoir
Classics
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Music
Biography
History
The Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Business
History
Management
This American Woman
A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
Bagehot
The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Biography
Economics
History
Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
History
Philosophy
Biography
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Education of an Accidental CEO
Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Business
Leadership
Biography
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
History
Military History
Military Fiction
Morning Sunshine!
How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too
Self Help
Autobiography
Biography
The Happy Medium
Life Lessons from the Other Side
Spirituality
Paranormal
Memoir
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Education
Memoir
Biography
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
The Wrath of Cochise
The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
History
American History
Biography
How to Think Like Einstein
Science
Biography
Philosophy
Ghost Hunters
William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
History
Science
Paranormal
The Year of Reading Dangerously
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
A Lion's Tale
Around the World in Spandex
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
History
Biography
War
The Sound of the Machine
My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
History
Biography
Aviation
Becoming Leonardo
An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Biography
History
Art
Eternity in Their Hearts
Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
Christian
Theology
Christianity
Barnum
An American Life
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
