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
Scar Tissue
Music
Biography
Memoir
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Business
Biography
Self Help
The Year of Less
How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
Confessions of the Pricing Man
How Price Affects Everything
Business
Economics
Buisness
Red Scarf Girl
History
Memoir
China
Endure
How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Lives of the Stoics
The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
History
Biography
The Setup
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
The Long Loneliness
The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Biography
Memoir
Religion
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
The Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Know My Name
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Quiet Leadership
Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
Football
Biography
Sports
Inferno
A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
The Man Who Knew Infinity
A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Biography
Mathematics
Science
Gandhi
An Autobiography
Biography
History
Autobiography
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Martial Arts
Philosophy
Biography
I Can Fix This
And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child
Parenting
Memoir
Mental Health
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
Insatiable
Porn - A Love Story
Memoir
Biography
Sex Work
Doglapan
The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Desert Flower
Biography
Africa
Memoir
Reading with Patrick
A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Memoir
Education
Book Club
Mexico
Biography of Power
History
Politics
Biography
Losing My Virginity
How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Business
Biography
Autobiography
It's Your Ship
Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Leadership
Business
Management
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
How Winning Traders Win
Finance
Business
Economics
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Classics
Philosophy
Memoir
Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader
Lessons from 21 Weeks of Real Trading
Finance
Business
Biography
Reasons to Stay Alive
Mental Health
Self Help
Memoir
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership
Ghost Boy
My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
Business
Economics
Biography
Alexander Hamilton
History
Biography
American History
The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
History
Science
Book Club
Becoming Trader Joe
How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
Business
Biography
Memoir
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
Sonho Grande
Business
Biography
Finance
Molly's Game
From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
American Kingpin
The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
True Crime
Crime
Biography
The Score Takes Care of Itself
My Philosophy of Leadership
Leadership
Business
Sports
Man Enough
Undefining My Masculinity
Memoir
Feminism
Self Help
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Business
Biography
Leadership
Papillon
Biography
Classics
Memoir
Lone Survivor
The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Military Fiction
History
War
A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Memoir
Biography
War
Surprised by Joy
The Shape of My Early Life
Christian
Biography
Religion
Rudolf Steiner
An Introduction to His Life and Work
Biography
Philosophy
Religion
