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
Courage to Soar
A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Memoir
Sports
Biography
The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
History
Biography
World War II
The Woman in Me
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
History
Africa
Nigeria
Will
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
History
Art
Architecture
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Twelve Years a Slave
History
Classics
Biography
Laughing Without an Accent
Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Memoir
Humor
Iran
Attention Factory
The Story of TikTok & China’s ByteDance
Business
Technology
China
Nisei Daughter
Memoir
History
Biography Memoir
The Indifferent Stars Above
The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
History
Historical
Biography
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
History
Christian
The Memory Palace
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
True Crime
Crime
Abuse
Letters to a Young Scientist
Science
Biology
Nature
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Biography
History
Journalism
Anne Frank
The Biography
Biography
History
Holocaust
The Path to Power
Biography
History
Politics
Steve Jobs' Life By Design
Lessons to be Learned from His Last Lecture
Biography
Business
Personal Development
Surviving to Drive
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Fear
Trump in the White House
Politics
History
Biography
University of Berkshire Hathaway
30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
Finance
Business
Economics
Why Not Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
Memoir
Self Help
Finance
Lucky Man
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Unmasked
My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Tracks
A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Travel
Memoir
Adventure
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
The Spotify Play
How Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
Business
Music
Biography
Michael Jackson, Inc.
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
Biography
Music
Business
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Biography
Technology
True Crime
Adversity for Sale
Ya Gotta Believe
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Adolf Hitler
History
Biography
World War II
Doing Justice
A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Politics
Law
Memoir
The Divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Politics
History
Biography
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Slash
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Mind Without Fear
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Just Another Kid
Psychology
Memoir
Education
The Dirt
Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Music
Biography
Memoir
Exit Interview
The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
Memoir
Business
Biography
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
Scatter Brain
How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer
Adhd
Memoir
Biography
The Sound of Gravel
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Girl, Interrupted
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
Never Stop Walking
A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Memoir
Biography
Adoption
Every Second Counts
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Shattered
Struck Down, but not Destroyed
Baseball
Biography
Christian
