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
Conversations of Socrates
Philosophy
Classics
History
曾国藩传
History
Biography
Raising Hare
A Memoir
Memoir
Nature
Animals
Cabeça Fria, Coração Quente
Football
Biography
Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Books About Books
Essays
Adult
L'Avversario
True Crime
Crime
France
Wild Rescues
A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
Memoir
Outdoors
Adventure
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Memoir
Essays
Canada
In the Land of Pain
Memoir
France
Autobiography
The Art Spy
The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
History
Art
Biography
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
You Can’t Be Serious
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Goldman Sachs
The Culture of Success
Business
Finance
Economics
Freezing Order
Politics
History
Russia
White Lies
The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
History
Biography
Race
Men and Rubber
The Story of Business 1926
Business
Biography
History
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism
The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Philosophy
Politics
Religion
The Latehomecomer
A Hmong Family Memoir
Memoir
Book Club
History
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
Politics
History
Philosophy
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky and the Media
Politics
Philosophy
History
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
Science
Philosophy
Biology
Spectacle
The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
History
Biography
Race
Motherland
A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
History
Russia
Feminism
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck
An Everyman’s Guide to a Meaningful Life
Self Help
Psychology
Health
Crusade for Justice
The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
History
Biography
Memoir
Magellan
History
Biography
Travel
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
Biography
History
Politics
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
The Hunt for Vulcan
...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Science
History
Physics
Mind and Matter
A Life in Math and Football
Sports
Memoir
Mathematics
McNamara at War
A New History
History
Biography
Military History
Becky Lynch
The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
Memoir
Biography
Sports
Family of Spies
History
Memoir
Biography
American Oligarchs
The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
Politics
History
Biography
Melissa Explains It All
Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
History
Politics
American History
Bitter Blood
A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
Nice Girls Don't Win
How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
Memoir
Biography
LGBT
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
History
Politics
Labor
The Conquest of Gaul
History
Classics
Ancient History
Libro dell'acqua
Biography
Russia
Herodotus
The Father of History
History
Ancient History
Greece
America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Labor
History
Politics
The Question of God
C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
Science
Physics
Nature
The Journey of Robert Monroe
From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer
Biography
Spirituality
Awake
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
The Essential Edgar Cayce
Spirituality
Metaphysics
Paranormal
Ultimate Journey
Spirituality
Metaphysics
Occult
Embrace Your Weird
Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
Self Help
Writing
Humor
