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
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
Memoir
Biography
Grief
Humanly Possible
Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Philosophy
History
Biography
Eternity in Their Hearts
Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World
Christian
Theology
Christianity
The Frontiersmen
History
American History
Historical
Barnum
An American Life
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey into Bhutan
Travel
Memoir
Asia
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
History
Biography
War
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
My Effin' Life
Music
Biography
Memoir
Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
History
Business
Economics
Dead Mom Walking
A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
Memoir
Canada
Biography
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Music
Biography
Memoir
Leonardo and the Last Supper
History
Art
Biography
Seven More Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
Music
Biography
History
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Biography
History
Dead End Gene Pool
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
History
Language
Biography
Friendship for Grownups
Christian
Friendship
Relationships
He Said, She Said
Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
The Long Alliance
The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Politics
History
Biography
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
SMiLE
The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
Music
Biography
Rock N Roll
Peace Pilgrim
Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Biography
Spirituality
Memoir
Elizabeth I and Her Circle
History
Tudor Period
Biography
41
A Portrait of My Father
Biography
History
Politics
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Biography
Memoir
Classics
Why We Love Pirates
The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
History
Pirates
Historical
Attention
A Love Story
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Memoir
Jack Welch and the GE Way
Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
Business
Leadership
Management
What On Earth Have I Done?
Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
OPEN
Why asking for help can save your life
Mental Health
Self Help
Biography
Prince
Inside the Music and the Masks
Music
Biography
Autobiography
On Being Human
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Memoir
Self Help
Biography Memoir
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
