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
Winning
Business
Leadership
Management
A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Memoir
Biography
War
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
Business
Finance
Money
The Power of Broke
How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
Business
Self Help
Entrepreneurship
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money
Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
Business
Biography
Finance
Sacred Hoops
SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Disrupted
My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Business
Memoir
Biography
When Breath Becomes Air
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
History
Biography
Finance
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Biography
History
Middle Grade
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
History
Civil War
Biography
A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
Romance
Memoir
Biography
All the Beauty in the World
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Memoir
Art
Book Club
Son of Hamas
A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Biography
History
Memoir
Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
History
Biography
World War II
My Voice Will Go with You
The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Economics
History
Politics
The Inner Citadel
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
History
Self Help
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
The Noble Art of Seducing Women
My Foolproof Guide to Pulling Any Woman You Want
Relationships
Biography
Love
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
History
Biography
Military Fiction
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
History
Japan
Biography
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Holocaust
History
Memoir
J. K. Rowling
The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
Biography
Biography Memoir
Childrens
The Fall of Heaven
The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
History
Iran
Politics
The Fund
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
Business
Finance
Biography
King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Business
Finance
Biography
I Came Upon a Lighthouse
A Short Memoir Of Life With Ratan Tata
Memoir
Biography
India
Quarto de Despejo
Diário de uma Favelada
Memoir
Biography
Brazil
Your Mom's Gonna Love Me
Memoir
Biography
Humor
The Road Ahead
Business
Biography
Technology
The Half of It
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Knife
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Science
Memoir
Psychology
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Chess
Biography
Games
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Music
Memoir
Biography
Building a Life Worth Living
A Memoir
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Business
Biography
Leadership
Liftoff
Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Business
Space
Science
Amazon Unbound
Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Business
Biography
Technology
Taking Flight
From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Memoir
Biography
Africa
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
History
Feminism
Womens
Sonny Boy
Memoir
Biography
Film
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
History
Espionage
Biography
The Story of the Integration of the Indian States
History
India
Politics
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Science
History
Physics
Lincoln on Leadership
Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Leadership
Business
History
Humans of New York
Stories
Photography
Art
Biography
Paul
The Pagans' Apostle
Religion
History
Christianity
Istanbul
Memories and the City
Travel
Memoir
Biography
