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
Darwin and Evolution
Science
Evolution
Biography
Unveiling Grace
The Story of How We Found Our Way out of the Mormon Church
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Beethoven
The Universal Composer
Music
Biography
History
The Invisible Woman
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
See A Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Music
Memoir
Biography
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
History
Memoir
Asia
Black Tooth Grin
The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
Music
Biography
Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Philosophy
Mathematics
Science
The Prosecutor
Law
Memoir
Biography
The Way of the Explorer
An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds
Science
Philosophy
Memoir
Boy Meets Depression
Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
Mental Health
Memoir
Psychology
Always with Honor
The Memoirs of General Wrangel
History
Russia
Biography
God's Hostage
A True Story of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance
Biography
Christian
Memoir
Portrait of a Turkish Family
History
Memoir
Turkish
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
Sober Mercies
How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk
Memoir
Christian
Biography
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Travel
History
Adventure
You'll Never Believe Me
A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Silver Screen Fiend
Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
Memoir
Humor
Film
Glory Days
The Bruce Springsteen Story
Music
Biography
History
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Iron Man
My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath
Music
Biography
Autobiography
In the Presence of My Enemies
Biography
Christian
Memoir
The Drone Eats with Me
A Gaza Diary
Memoir
War
Biography
Back on the Road (Otra Vez)
A Journey Through Latin America
History
Travel
Politics
Glock
The Rise of America's Gun
History
Business
Military Fiction
Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys
The Songs that Tell Their Story
Music
Biography
The Master of Disguise
My Secret Life in the CIA
History
Biography
Espionage
An Invisible Thread
Book Club
Memoir
Biography
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Biography
Cars
Racing
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
It's All About Muhammad
A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet
Biography
Religion
History
In the Land of Invisible Women
A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Memoir
Biography
Religion
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
One Bird's Choice
A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home
Memoir
Canada
Biography
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
LGBT
History
Biography
Called Out
Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling
Biography
Memoir
Leadership
Her Again
Becoming Meryl Streep
Biography
Biography Memoir
Memoir
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
Is This Legal?
The Inside Story of the First UFC from the Man Who Created It
Sports
Mixed Martial Arts
Biography
Surprised by Christ
My Journey From Judaism to Orthodox Christianity
Religion
Biography
Christian
One Direction
Who We Are: Our Official Autobiography
Biography
Music
Autobiography
Shakey
Neil Young's Biography
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Lost Continent
Travels in Small-Town America
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Crossroads
The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
Music
Biography
History
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King
Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
Biography
Business
Biography Memoir
A Class of Their Own
Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives
The Thai Cave Rescue
Memoir
Biography
History
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
History
Civil War
Biography
