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
Go For the Goal
A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
Soccer
Sports
Autobiography
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Music
Feminism
History
Iacocca
An Autobiography
Biography
Business
Autobiography
I'm a Joke and So Are You
Reflections on Humour and Humanity
Humor
Psychology
Science
The Year of Living Biblically
One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Religion
Humor
Memoir
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
Biography
Business
History
Lead with Humility
12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
Leadership
Religion
Business
Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Screw It, Let's Do It
Lessons in Life
Business
Biography
Self Help
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
Wild Game
My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
All Too Human
Politics
Memoir
Biography
The Intel Trinity
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
Business
Technology
Biography
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
History
American History
Biography
The Little Locksmith
Memoir
Classics
Biography
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Economics
History
Politics
The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
Religion
History
Islam
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Business
Education
Biography
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story
How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
History
Biography
Science
Hegarty on Advertising
Business
Design
Memoir
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Business
Leadership
Biography
How to Be Like Mike
Life Lessons about Basketball's Best
Basketball
Sports
Biography
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Science
History
Biography
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What I Learned While Editing My Life
Memoir
Christian
Faith
How I Built This
The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Einstein and the Rabbi
Searching for the Soul
Judaism
Religion
Spirituality
Can't Hurt Me
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Fitness Confidential
Fitness
Health
Memoir
Making Movies
Film
Media Tie In
Art
Poverty Safari
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Eichmann in My Hands
A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner
History
Holocaust
Memoir
Disrupted
My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Business
Memoir
Biography
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
History
Biography
Japan
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
History
Politics
Operation Ironman
One Man's Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman Triathlon
Biography
Humor
Travel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Biography
History
Memoir
Long Walk to Freedom
Biography
History
Africa
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Biography
History
Race
Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
Music
Psychology
Memoir
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Marx
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
Education
Science
Biography
Character Is Destiny
Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
History
Biography
Politics
A Theory of Everything (That Matters)
A Brief Guide to Einstein, Relativity, and His Surprising Thoughts on God
Science
Philosophy
Biography
Mind Without Fear
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Angela Merkel
Europe's Most Influential Leader
Biography
Politics
History
Seven Women
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Business
Finance
Biography