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
Song of the Nightingale
One Woman's True Story of Faith & Persecution in Eritrea
Biography
Africa
Christian
Madam Ambassador
Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Biography
Memoir
Travel
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Comandante ad Auschwitz
History
Holocaust
Biography
Talking as Fast as I Can
From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
Memoir
Biography
Humor
Ben & Jerry's
The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
Business
Food
Biography
How God Became Jesus
The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature—A Response To Bart Ehrman
Theology
Religion
History
Tesla
Inventor of the Electrical Age
Biography
Science
History
A Class of Their Own
Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Biography
Politics
Memoir
On Muscle
The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
Science
Health
Memoir
The Infernal Machine
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
History
True Crime
Crime
Decoded
Music
Biography
Memoir
Buckley
The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Biography
Politics
History
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
The Story of Art Without Men
Art
History
Feminism
Confident Women
Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
True Crime
History
Feminism
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Conquistador
Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
History
Biography
War
A First-Rate Madness
Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Psychology
History
Politics
Paper Girl
A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Memoir
History
Biography
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
Struck By Genius
How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Memoir
Science
Biography
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Memoir
Business
Leadership
The Best Minds
A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Memoir
Psychology
True Crime
Gene Machine
The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Science
Biology
Biography
Hellhound on His Trail
The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
History
True Crime
Biography
Werner Erhard
The transformation of a man: the founding of EST
Philosophy
Biography
Psychology
The Upstarts
How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
The Invisible Kingdom
Reimagining Chronic Illness
Memoir
Health
Science
The Plantagenets
The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
History
Medieval
Historical
The Caesars Palace Coup
How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
Business
Finance
History
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
Never Let Go
A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
Fitness
Health
Philosophy
The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon
Biography
Theology
Christian
I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
Philosophy
Biography
History
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
Marx and Satan
Christian
Politics
Religion
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
History
American History
Historical
The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
History
Biography
Language
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
Just Add Water
My Swimming Life
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
Graphic Novels
Memoir
Comics
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Memoir
Grief
Mental Health
Deep Undercover
My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
History
Biography
Espionage
Dark Squares
How Chess Saved My Life
Chess
Memoir
Biography
Gay Girl, Good God
The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Infidel
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Christian
Biography
Theology
