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 Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor
Holocaust
History
Memoir
Steve Jobs
Thinking Differently
Biography
Business
Biography Memoir
Girls Who Rocked The World
Heroines From Anne Frank to Natalie Portman
Biography
History
Feminism
Free the Children
A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World
Biography Memoir
Childrens
Social Justice
Hope
A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Biography
Economics
History
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Business
Technology
History
Alibaba's World
How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
Business
China
Biography
The Orbital Perspective
Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
Space
Science
Astronomy
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Feminism
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
History
World War II
Science
Walden on Wheels
On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor
Finance
Business
Biography
Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Memoir
Health
Biography
The Year of Reading Dangerously
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
The Backyard Parables
Lessons on Gardening, and Life
Gardening
Memoir
Nature
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Memoir
Education
Business
Madness
A Bipolar Life
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
Barefoot to Billionaire
Biography
Business
Lds
The Truth
An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
The Art of Learning
A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Self Help
Psychology
Personal Development
Good Profit
How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
Business
Economics
Leadership
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Science
Memoir
Animals
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
How Life Imitates Chess
Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Chess
Business
Biography
Quarto de Despejo
Diário de Uma Favelada
Memoir
Biography
Brazil
Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam
A Life in Physics
Science
Physics
Biography
Do the KIND Thing
Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Meb For Mortals
Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance
Sports
Fitness
Biography
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
The Fighter's Mind
Inside the Mental Game
Martial Arts
Sports
Psychology
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Food
Memoir
Cooking
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
The Essential Vince Lombardi
Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win
Biography
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Power
History
Biography
Presidents
Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Wizard
The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
Biography
Science
History
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Africa
Nigeria
Memoir
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Science
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Daughters of the Samurai
A Journey from East to West and Back
History
Japan
Biography
The Boy Who Could Change the World
The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Biography
Politics
Essays
Wave
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Science
Biography
Physics
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Science
Space
Business
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup
Sports
Biography
Business
Strategy Rules
Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Business
Management
Leadership
Trump
The Art of the Deal
Business
Biography
Politics
On Writing
Writing
Classics
Literature