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
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Memoir
Biography
Classics
An Ordinary Man
Africa
Biography
Memoir
A Big Little Life
A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Animals
Dogs
Memoir
Travels With Myself and Another
Travel
Memoir
Biography
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Travel
Humor
Memoir
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Parenting
Memoir
Biography
I Remember Nothing
And Other Reflections
Memoir
Humor
Essays
Long Walk to Freedom
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Biography
History
Africa
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
History
Biography
Politics
Keynes
The Return of the Master
Economics
History
Biography
Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Business
Management
Leadership
The Next Big Story
My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities
Biography
Memoir
African American
The Greatest Trade Ever
The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Finance
Business
Economics
Bonhoeffer
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Biography
History
Christian
Heroes of the Environment
True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet
Science
Biography
Environment
A Widow's Story
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Adolf Hitler
My Part in His Downfall
Humor
Biography
History
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
Delivering Happiness
A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Business
Leadership
Biography
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
The Lombardi Rules
26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi — The World's Greatest Coach
Leadership
Sports
Business
A Man Without a Country
Essays
Memoir
Humor
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
Gray Matter
A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
Christian
Medical
Biography
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
Bossypants
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Memoir
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Crazy for God
How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Business
Biography
Leadership
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
An Unquiet Mind
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Memoir
Biography
Japan
Anything You Want
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
The Lost City of Z
History
Adventure
Travel
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
It's Your Ship
Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Leadership
Business
Management
Winning
The Ultimate Business How-To Book
Business
Leadership
Management
The Chronology of Water
Memoir
Feminism
Queer
Open
Biography
Sports
Memoir
Escape
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
Philosophy
Biography
Memoir
The Billionaire Who Wasn't
Biography
Business
Finance
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
History
Civil War
Biography
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
History
Memoir
Biography
Start Something That Matters
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
The Last Lecture
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Yoga Bitch
One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
Memoir
Travel
Humor
An Autobiography
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
I, Steve
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Biography
Business
Leadership