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
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
Music
Biography
Jazz
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Politics
History
Leadership
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Civil War
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
History
Biography
American History
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Force of Nature
Mind, Body, Soul
Biography
Sports
Fitness
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart
Memoir
Book Club
Gardening
Mother American Night
My Life and Crazy Times
Biography
Music
Memoir
Reading the Constitution
Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Politics
Law
History
First Comes Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Essays
41
A Portrait of My Father
Biography
History
Politics
Unbelievable
Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
Paranormal
Science
History
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
Politics
History
American History
Drawing Out the Dragons
A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Memoir
Inspirational
Biography
Sound and Fury
Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship
Sports
Biography
History
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Art
LGBT
Bisexual
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
English Lessons
The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith
Memoir
Christian
Faith
Getting Castaneda
Understanding Carlos Castaneda
Biography
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
History
Biography
War
The Real Mad Men
The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
History
Business
Biography
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
41-Love
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Politics
History
American History
The Melting Point
High Command and War in the 21st Century
Military Fiction
History
Memoir
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Politics
History
Russia
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
History
Memoir
Asia
Why We Love Pirates
The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
History
Pirates
Historical
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Power Play
Breaking Through Bias, Barriers & Boys Clubs
Politics
Feminism
Australia
The Road Beneath My Feet
Music
Biography
Memoir
Old Rage
Memoir
Autobiography
Book Club
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Politics
Memoir
History
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Becoming Leonardo
An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Biography
History
Art
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Memoir
Food
Biography
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
Biography
History
Historical
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
History
War
Military Fiction
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Memoir
Sports
Health
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
