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
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership
Business
Biography
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Business
Biography
Finance
Furiously Happy
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Disney War
Business
History
Biography
Miracle in the Andes
Survival
Memoir
Adventure
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
How Life Imitates Chess
Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Chess
Business
Biography
The Fighter's Mind
Inside the Mental Game
Martial Arts
Sports
Psychology
12 Notes
On Life and Creativity
Music
Biography
Self Help
Walt Disney
The Triumph of the American Imagination
Biography
History
Business
Rosa Parks
My Story
Biography
History
Memoir
Confessions
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Criticism
Literature
What in the World?!
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Trump
How to Get Rich
Business
Self Help
Finance
John Adams
History
Biography
American History
Churchill
Walking with Destiny
Biography
History
Politics
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
Sports
Soccer
Book Club
Reham Khan
Biography
Pakistan
Autobiography
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
Politics
History
Memoir
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
History
Japan
Biography
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Biography
History
Business
Quiet Strength
The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
Christian
Leadership
Biography
My Life
Biography
Politics
History
Forgiveness
Memoir
Canada
Book Club
A Night to Remember
History
Classics
Historical
The Bogle Effect
How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions
Finance
Business
Personal Finance
What the Animals Taught Me
Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
Memoir
Biography
Call Sign Chaos
Learning to Lead
Leadership
Military Fiction
Biography
The Will to Keep Winning
Self Help
Biography
Games
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Bihar Diaries
Crime
India
Biography
Basketball Junkie
Memoir
Sports
Basketball
A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Education
Disability
Memoir
How to Think Like Socrates
Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
Philosophy
Psychology
History
What the Dead Know
Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Great Thinkers
Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Marching Powder
Travel
Biography
Crime
365 Thank Yous
The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
The Lombardi Rules
Twenty-Six Lessons from Vince Lombardi--The World's Greatest Coach
Leadership
Sports
Business
Hard Choices
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
History
Biography
Politics
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Biography
Mathematics
Science
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Business
Finance
Economics
Men Have Called Her Crazy
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Feminism
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
History
Politics
Philosophy
This Is Not a T-Shirt
A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear
Business
Fashion
Memoir
The Education of Cyrus
History
Philosophy
Biography
