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
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds
How William James Can Save Your Life
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
True Crime
Crime
Horror
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
Loving the Skin You're In
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
Women Who Risk
Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
Christian
Biography
Faith
What We Carry
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
Nobody Ever Told Me Anything
Memoir
Biography
Class
A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
True Crime
Religion
Cults
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
Biography
Humor
Memoir
George Washington
Biography
History
Presidents
How to Think Like da Vinci
Biography
Art
Memoir
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business
Music
Business
Biography
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Health
Science
Getting Acquired
How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
The Republic of Tea
The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Unfollow
A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Memoir
Religion
Biography
In the Presence of My Enemies
Biography
Christian
Memoir
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Seven More Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
The Case for Trump
Politics
History
Biography
What Makes a Marriage Last
40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life
Relationships
Marriage
Self Help
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Music
Memoir
Biography
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
The Right Kind of Crazy
Navy SEAL, Covert Operative, and Boy Scout from Hell
Military Fiction
Biography
Memoir
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
History
Politics
Biography
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
History
Biography
Politics
On Jung
Psychology
Biography
Philosophy
E.R. Nurses
Medical
Memoir
Medicine
Dr. Seuss and Philosophy
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Philosophy
Essays
Childrens
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
Chris Hoy
The Autobiography
Cycling
Biography
Sports
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Memoir
Politics
Biography
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
A History of Islam in 21 Women
Islam
History
Religion
Her Again
Becoming Meryl Streep
Biography
Biography Memoir
Memoir
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Memoir
Music
Feminism
A Love Letter Life
Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.
Christian
Marriage
Relationships
Have a New Husband by Friday
Marriage
Christian
Self Help
Rogue Trader
Finance
Biography
Business
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
Social Justice
Theology
Christian
The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally
Food
Memoir
Cookbooks
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Confidence Game
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
Finance
Business
Economics
