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
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Business
Biography
Technology
Once Upon a Time in Russia
The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
History
Russia
Politics
Good Profit
How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
Business
Economics
Leadership
The Unpublished David Ogilvy
Business
Biography
Writing
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Music
Feminism
History
Matriarch
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
Ten Days in a Mad-House
History
Classics
Psychology
Sex Object
A Memoir
Feminism
Memoir
Biography
My Body
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Contemporary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
The Unusual Billionaires
Business
Finance
India
In the Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Business
Technology
History
Chinese Cinderella
The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Memoir
Biography
China
The Robber Barons
History
Business
American History
Softwar
An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
Biography
Business
Technology
How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
Hard Drive
Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
Biography
Business
Technology
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Mountaineering
Adventure
Biography
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
Humor
Memoir
Biography
The Money Trap
Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
Business
Finance
Biography
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
50/50
Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
Sports
Fitness
Memoir
The Warren Buffett Way Workbook
Finance
Business
Economics
Unbreakable
My Story, My Way
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
American Sniper
The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Free
A Child and a Country at the End of History
Memoir
History
Biography
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Philosophy
Martial Arts
Self Help
Inside the House of Money
Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
Finance
Business
Economics
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Business
Biography
Management
The Road to Mecca
Islam
Religion
Biography
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
History
Biography
Philosophy
The World As It Is
Inside the Obama White House
Politics
Memoir
History
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Biography
Memoir
Politics
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
History
Biography
Asia
The Bond King
How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Finance
Business
Biography
Coach
Lessons on the Game of Life
Sports
Baseball
Biography
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Biography
Design
Business
Anything You Want
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Boys in the Trees
Memoir
Biography
Music
Hour of the Heart
Connecting in the Here and Now
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
G.I. Gurdjieff
The War Against Sleep
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Biography
History
Race
Good Time Girl
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
