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
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership
Below Stairs
Memoir
History
Biography
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
History
France
American History
Losing My Virginity
How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
My Losing Season
A Memoir
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Let My People Go Surfing
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Business
Biography
Memoir
Obama
From Promise to Power
Biography
Politics
History
Choosing to SEE
A Journey of Struggle and Hope
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Memoir
Not Quite What I Was Planning
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
History
Business
Science
Letters
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Happiest Refugee
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Unstoppable
The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
Christian
Biography
Inspirational
Hard Work
A Life On and Off the Court
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Self-Made Man
One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
Memoir
Gender
Feminism
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
Sports
Cycling
Biography
The Water Is Wide
Memoir
Biography
Education
Trump
How to Get Rich
Business
Self Help
Finance
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
History
Politics
Biography
Coach Wooden
The 7 Principles That Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours
Biography
Sports
Self Help
Exile on Wall Street
One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves
Finance
Business
Economics
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Music
Memoir
Biography
Decision Points
Biography
Politics
History
The Liars' Club
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Dr. Seuss and Philosophy
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Philosophy
Essays
Childrens
Little Princes
One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Adventure
Memoir
Travel
Man’s Search for Meaning
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Letters to a Young Scientist
Science
Biology
Nature
A Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The Profiler
My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
True Crime
Crime
Biography
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Psychology
Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
History
Religion
Biography
Brick by Brick
How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
Business
History
Biography
Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
Science
History
Physics
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
Writing
Memoir
Biography
The Year Without Pants
WordPress.com and the Future of Work
Business
Management
Technology
Ice
A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
Biography
Music
Memoir
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Biography
History
Business
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Finance
Business
Economics
Most Talkative
Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Politics
Biography
Government
Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Writing
Art
Self Help
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
Sports
Cycling
Biography