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
The Glass Castle
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Orange Is the New Black
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
My Year of Magical Reading
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
Romance
Memoir
Biography
The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally
Food
Memoir
Cookbooks
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
True Crime
Religion
Cults
Liar's Poker
Business
Finance
Economics
Think Like Zuck
The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Business
Leadership
Technology
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Business
Biography
Technology
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
History
American History
American Revolution
The Psychopath Inside
A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
Psychology
Science
Memoir
Godless
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
I Am Malala
The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Biography
Memoir
Feminism
There's More to Life Than This
Spirituality
Memoir
Inspirational
Mandela's Way
Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
Biography
History
Self Help
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
Self Help
Business
Biography
My Story
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Science
Biography
Space
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
Politics
Memoir
African American
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
History
Psychology
Biography
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
Sports
Biography
Leadership
Serve to Win
The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence
Health
Biography
Sports
The Real Mad Men
The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
History
Business
Biography
Without Their Permission
How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Like a Virgin
Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
A Street Cat Named Bob
How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
Animals
Biography
Memoir
Finding Ultra
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Health
Sports
Biography
It's Been a Good Life
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Alex Ferguson
My Autobiography
Biography
Sports
Football
Unbreakable
My Story, My Way
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
History
Africa
Nigeria
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
Pour Your Heart Into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Business
Biography
Leadership
50/50
Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days — and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
Sports
Fitness
Memoir
Gandhi
An Autobiography
Biography
History
Autobiography
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
How Winning Traders Win
Finance
Business
Economics
Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl
And Why You Should, Too
Finance
Business
Money
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Lucky Man
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
Military Fiction
War
History
The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
History
Biography
Adventure
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Memory Palace
Memoir
Biography
Mental Illness
The Heart and the Fist
The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
Military Fiction
Biography
Memoir
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Business
Biography
Management
Growing Up Laughing
My Story and the Story of Funny
Biography
Humor
Memoir
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
History
Politics
Philosophy
Walt Disney
The Triumph of the American Imagination
Biography
History
Business