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
How to Fail
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Strategy Rules
Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Business
Management
Leadership
The Water Is Wide
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Learning from Leonardo
Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius
Science
History
Art
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
History
Politics
Biography
The Campaigns of Alexander
History
Classics
Biography
Stress Test
Reflections on Financial Crises
Economics
Finance
Business
50 Business Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy
Business
Management
Finance
Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Biography
History
Science
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
History
Biography
Politics
Transforming Leadership
Leadership
History
Business
You Have a Brain
A Teen's Guide to T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G.
Self Help
Biography
Inspirational
Getting to Us
How Great Coaches Make Great Teams
Sports
Leadership
Basketball
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
A Heart That Works
Memoir
Grief
Biography
Nonbinary
A Memoir
Music
Memoir
LGBT
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Memoir
Death
Science
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Biography
Finance
History
War Room
Sports
Football
Biography
The Real Anthony Fauci
Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Politics
Health
History
No Filter
The Inside Story of Instagram
Business
Technology
Biography
Gridiron Genius
A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
Sports
Football
Leadership
Psychic Warrior
The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program
Paranormal
History
Biography
In My Time of Dying
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Memoir
Science
Biography
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
A Woman of No Importance
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
History
Biography
Book Club
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Food
Memoir
Cooking
Happy People Are Annoying
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
All Too Human
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Economics
Biography
Politics
Bravey
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Carl Jung
Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
A Long Way Home
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
A Journey
My Political Life
Politics
Biography
History
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
The Killing Zone
My Life in the Vietnam War
History
War
Military Fiction
Hard Work
A Life On and Off the Court
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Money Kings
The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
History
Biography
Business
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Haldol and Hyacinths
A Bipolar Life
Memoir
Mental Health
Mental Illness
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
History
True Crime
American History
No Dream Is Too High
Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
Biography
Space
Science
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Science
Space
Business
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
Business
Biography
History
If We Break
A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
