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 Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Biography
Politics
History
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Memoir
Education
Business
Madly, Deeply
The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Bad Mormon
A Memoir
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Walking to Listen
4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Saving Freud
The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
History
Biography
Psychology
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Book Club
Memoir
Biography
How Life Imitates Chess
Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Chess
Business
Biography
High Achiever
The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
A Higher Loyalty
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
Nothing But The Truth
The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Law
Crime
Biography
More than a Game
Sports
Basketball
Autobiography
The Basketball Diaries
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Silicon Valley Porn Star
A Memoir of Redemption and Rediscovering the Self
Memoir
Personal Development
Biography
21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges
Business
Biography
Memoir
Make Your Own Rules
Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age
Music
Memoir
Self Help
These Precious Days
Essays
Essays
Memoir
Book Club
Fake Heroes
Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
History
Biography
Historical
It's About Damn Time
How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage
Business
Memoir
Self Help
All or Nothing
How Trump Recaptured America
Politics
History
Journalism
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
Japan
Writing
Books About Books
Indomitable
A Working Woman's Notes on Work, Life and Leadership
India
Biography
Sastun
My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Memoir
Anthropology
Biography Memoir
Black Box
Japan
Memoir
Feminism
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
The Orbital Perspective
Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
Space
Science
Astronomy
We're Going to Need More Wine
Memoir
Biography
Essays
The Gulag Archipelago
History
Russia
Politics
All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Memoir
History
Biography
God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel
How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies
Christian
Theology
Christianity
And Then One Day
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
India
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup
Sports
Biography
Business
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Sports
Basketball
History
Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam
A Life in Physics
Science
Physics
Biography
Gladys Aylward
The Little Woman
Biography
Christian
China
Make Something Wonderful
Biography
Business
Design
iCon
Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Biography
Business
Apple
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
My Invented Country
A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Orange Is the New Black
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
My Life in Red and White
Sports
Biography
Football
Lewis Hamilton
My Story
Biography
Autobiography
Sports
Uncle Tungsten
Science
Memoir
Biography
Dog Medicine
Memoir
Animals
Dogs
Speak
Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
Gray Matter
A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
Christian
Medical
Memoir
Consent
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
