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Biography Book Summaries

Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 564 pages
4.03
15k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
Skunk Works Summary
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich 1994 382 pages
4.46
14k+ ratings
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2011 368 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
Autobiography of Mark Twain Summary
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
by Mark Twain 2010 414 pages
3.80
8k+ ratings
Biography
Autobiography
History
Bad Habits Summary
Bad Habits
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
by Jenny McCarthy 2012 222 pages
3.61
1k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Biography
My Spiritual Journey Summary
My Spiritual Journey
Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks
by Dalai Lama XIV 2009 307 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Biography
What the Animals Taught Me Summary
What the Animals Taught Me
Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary
by Stephanie Marohn 2012 192 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Animals
Memoir
Biography
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! Summary
Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!
Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality
by Lori Greiner 2014 288 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
Guts Summary
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
by Kristen Johnston 2012 288 pages
3.89
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Face the Music Summary
Face the Music
A Life Exposed
by Paul Stanley 2014 480 pages
4.13
5k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
Dancing Fish and Ammonites Summary
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
by Penelope Lively 2013 240 pages
3.64
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
British Literature
Every Second Counts Summary
Every Second Counts
by Lance Armstrong 2003
3.53
4k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Tunesmith Summary
Tunesmith
Inside the Art of Songwriting
by Jimmy Webb 1998 448 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Music
Writing
History
Life Without Limits Summary
Life Without Limits
by Nick Vujicic 2007 272 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Self Help
Brain on Fire Summary
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan 2012 250 pages
4.09
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
The Promise of a Pencil Summary
The Promise of a Pencil
How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
by Adam Braun 2014 272 pages
4.13
7k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Summary
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
by Nabeel Qureshi 2014 304 pages
4.59
36k+ ratings
Christian
Biography
Religion
Muhammad Summary
Muhammad
A Prophet for Our Time
by Karen Armstrong 2006 256 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Religion
Islam
History
COUNSELOR Summary
COUNSELOR
A Life at the Edge of History
by Theodore C. Sorensen 2008 556 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The First Family Detail Summary
The First Family Detail
Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
by Ronald Kessler 2014 272 pages
3.35
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
Driving Honda Summary
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
by Jeffrey Rothfeder 2014
3.86
100+ ratings
Business
Biography
History
Hard Choices Summary
Hard Choices
by Hillary Rodham Clinton 2013 788 pages
3.61
14k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Market Wizards Summary
Market Wizards
Interviews with Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager 1989 480 pages
4.27
9k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market Summary
How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market
by Nicolas Darvas 1960 197 pages
4.23
5k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
McDonald's Summary
McDonald's
Behind The Arches
by John F. Love 1986 486 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Business
Biography
History
Benjamin Graham Summary
Benjamin Graham
The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street
by Benjamin Graham 1996 351 pages
4.31
100+ ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
Netflixed Summary
Netflixed
The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
by Gina Keating 2012 304 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Business
Technology
History
The Innovators Summary
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pages
4.12
38k+ ratings
History
Biography
Business
Not My Father's Son Summary
Not My Father's Son
by Alan Cumming 2014 292 pages
4.05
45k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
I Stand Corrected Summary
I Stand Corrected
How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson
by Eden Collinsworth 2014 272 pages
3.20
100+ ratings
Memoir
China
Biography
Scandals of Classic Hollywood Summary
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
by Anne Helen Petersen 2014 289 pages
3.48
2k+ ratings
History
Film
Biography
Ada's Algorithm Summary
Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by James Essinger 2013 272 pages
3.28
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Science
Sam Walton Summary
Sam Walton
Made In America
by Sam Walton 1993 346 pages
4.14
26k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
The Education of a Value Investor Summary
The Education of a Value Investor
My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
by Guy Spier 2015 224 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Playing It My Way Summary
Playing It My Way
My Autobiography
by Sachin Tendulkar 2014 486 pages
3.94
10k+ ratings
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
And Then One Day Summary
And Then One Day
A Memoir
by Naseeruddin Shah 2014 328 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
India
The Great Agnostic Summary
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
by Susan Jacoby 2013 256 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Religion
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Summary
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
by Viv Albertine 2014 421 pages
4.30
12k+ ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Summary
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
by David Adam 2014 304 pages
3.89
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
Complications Summary
Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande 2002 270 pages
4.28
50k+ ratings
Medicine
Medical
Science
Jony Ive Summary
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
by Leander Kahney 2013 274 pages
3.98
7k+ ratings
Biography
Design
Business
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
A Life Worth Living Summary
A Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
by Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Biography
France
Reasons to Stay Alive Summary
Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig 2015 256 pages
4.07
100k+ ratings
Mental Health
Self Help
Memoir
The Road to Character Summary
The Road to Character
by David Brooks 2015 320 pages
3.65
25k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Yes, Chef Summary
Yes, Chef
by Marcus Samuelsson 2012 319 pages
3.86
18k+ ratings
Memoir
Food
Biography
On the Move Summary
On the Move
A Life
by Oliver Sacks 2015 397 pages
4.02
21k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Science
50 People Every Christian Should Know Summary
50 People Every Christian Should Know
Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith
by Warren W. Wiersbe 2009 398 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
History
The Accidental President of Brazil Summary
The Accidental President of Brazil
A Memoir
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2006 291 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
History
Brazil
Biography
Outcasts United Summary
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
by Warren St. John 2009 320 pages
3.84
8k+ ratings
Sports
Soccer
Biography
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