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
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Adventure
Mountaineering
Memoir
Andrew Carnegie
Biography
History
Business
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
History
Biography
Business
Tocqueville
A Very Short Introduction
History
Philosophy
Politics
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
War as I Knew It
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Business
Biography
Technology
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership
Business
Biography
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Leadership
Biography
Memoir
Spy Catcher
The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
History
Espionage
Biography
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
The Phantom Prince
My Life with Ted Bundy
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
My Body
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Surviving to Drive
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Showboat
The Life of Kobe Bryant
Sports
Biography
Basketball
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
History
Politics
Biography
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
True Crime
Crime
Abuse
R. C. Sproul
A Life
Biography
Christian
Theology
Martin Luther
The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Biography
History
Christian
Confronting the Presidents
No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
History
Politics
Biography
Down the Drain
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Art of Making Money
The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
True Crime
Crime
Biography
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Biography
Finance
History
A Moveable Feast
Memoir
Biography
France
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
History
Biography
American History
Knocking Myself Up
A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Earth to Moon
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
If Truth Be Told
A Monk's Memoir
Spirituality
Biography
Self Help
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Film
History
Biography
Tough Broad
From Bird-Watching to BASE Jumping―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
Health
Adventure
Memoir
The Princess Diarist
Memoir
Biography
Star Wars
Paris
The Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Pageboy
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Beyond the Wand
The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Martial Arts
Philosophy
Biography
Two Women Walk into a Bar
Memoir
Short Stories
Biography
Worshipping False Gods
Ambedkar and the Facts Which Have Been Erased
History
India
Politics
Men Have Called Her Crazy
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Feminism
Surprised by Joy
The Shape of My Early Life
Christian
Biography
Christianity
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Heaven is for Real
A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Christian
Religion
Inspirational
Defining Moments
God-Encounters with Ordinary People Who Changed the World (Spiritual Biographies of John Wesley, Charles G. Finney, Dwight L. Moody, ... Kathryn Kuhlman, Heidi Baker, and More
Christian
Faith
Spirituality
Know My Name
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Three Women
Feminism
Contemporary
Womens
Three Women
Feminism
Contemporary
Womens
Why Not Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
A Mostly True Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Comedy
Castaway
Travel
Biography
Memoir
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
Biography
Crime
True Crime
The Driver
My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
Biography
Cars
Racing