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
Highcastle
A Remembrance
Biography
Polish Literature
Literature
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
Fashion
Biography
Self Help
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
History
Biography
Religion
Savarkar
A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
History
Biography
India
Fortitude
American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
Politics
Biography
Self Help
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
Biography
History
Africa
Guns & Thighs
The Story of My Life
Biography
India
The Facts
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Lost Continent
Travels in Small-Town America
Travel
Humor
Memoir
The Man Watching
A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever
Biography
Sports
Soccer
Americanized
Rebel Without a Green Card
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
My Name Is Barbra
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Three-Ring Circus
Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Sports
Basketball
History
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Memoir
True Crime
Book Club
Think Like Zuck
The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Business
Leadership
Technology
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Politics
Biography
Government
A Thousand Naked Strangers
a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Memoir
Medical
Medicine
The Calculus of Friendship
What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Love and Math
The Heart of Hidden Reality
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
History
Jewish
Memoir
Tramp for the Lord
Christian
Biography
History
In the Form of a Question
The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
Memoir
LGBT
Biography
Living with the Monks
What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
How to Be a Woman
Feminism
Memoir
Humor
I, Rigoberta Menchú
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Memoir
History
Biography
The Black Hand
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
Biography
Memoir
France
A Chance to Die
The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates
Business
History
Computers
Churchill
The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
History
Biography
Politics
Mindgames
Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey
Sports
Basketball
Biography
My Friend Anne Frank
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
History
Memoir
Biography
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
History
Classics
Biography
Decision Points
Biography
Politics
History
Barefoot to Billionaire
Biography
Business
Lds
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
The Master of Disguise
My Secret Life in the CIA
History
Biography
Espionage
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
Sports
Cycling
Biography
Castaway
Travel
Biography
Memoir
Cooking for Kings
The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
Biography
Food
History
F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow
A True Story
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Getting There
A Book of Mentors
Business
Self Help
Leadership
The Yank
The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army
Ireland
War
Biography
Black Like Me
History
Memoir
Classics
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
A Memoir
Memoir
Science
Biography
Myself and Other More Important Matters
Management
Biography
Business
My Losing Season
A Memoir
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Not My Father's Son
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Music
Biography
History
