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Biography Book Summaries

How to Be Like Mike Summary
How to Be Like Mike
Life Lessons about Basketball's Best
by Pat Williams 2001 368 pages
4.32
342 ratings
Basketball
Sports
Biography
Chasing Daylight Summary
Chasing Daylight
How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
by Eugene O'Kelly 2005 179 pages
3.93
3.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Business
My Stroke of Insight Summary
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor 2006 181 pages
3.91
31.5K ratings
Science
Memoir
Psychology
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player Summary
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
by Robert Rodríguez 1995 285 pages
4.17
5.2K ratings
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
If Truth Be Told Summary
If Truth Be Told
A Monk's Memoir
by Om Swami 2014 266 pages
4.45
2.7K ratings
Spirituality
Biography
Self Help
Bad Boy Summary
Bad Boy
A Memoir
by Walter Dean Myers 2001 214 pages
3.73
3.3K ratings
Memoir
Biography
African American
LeBron, Inc. Summary
LeBron, Inc.
The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
by Brian Windhorst 2019 256 pages
3.85
1.5K ratings
Sports
Biography
Basketball
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Summary
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
by Andy Warhol 1975 272 pages
3.84
47.7K ratings
Art
Philosophy
Biography
Amp It Up Summary
Amp It Up
Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
by Frank Slootman 2022 208 pages
4.04
3.2K ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
A History of the World in 21 Women Summary
A History of the World in 21 Women
A Personal Selection
by Jenni Murray 2018 304 pages
3.83
3.4K ratings
History
Feminism
Biography
Showboat Summary
Showboat
The Life of Kobe Bryant
by Roland Lazenby 2016 625 pages
4.30
2.3K ratings
Sports
Biography
Basketball
Politics On the Edge Summary
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
by Rory Stewart 2023 436 pages
4.33
14.5K ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
بیست و سه سال Summary
بیست و سه سال
۲۳ سال
by Ali Dashti 1973 400 pages
4.01
1.0K ratings
Religion
History
Islam
Personal History Summary
Personal History
A Memoir
by Katharine Graham 1997 642 pages
4.09
24.3K ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
The Robber Barons Summary
The Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson 1934 496 pages
3.73
402 ratings
History
Business
American History
The Wolf of Wall Street / Catching the Wolf of Wall Street Summary
The Wolf of Wall Street / Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
by Jordan Belfort 2016 530 pages
4.32
160 ratings
Biography
This is Going to Hurt Summary
This is Going to Hurt
Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by Adam Kay 2017 285 pages
4.40
311.4K ratings
Memoir
Medicine
Biography
The Story of My Life Summary
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller 1902 240 pages
4.08
149.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair Summary
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch 2011 241 pages
3.48
7.2K ratings
Books About Books
Memoir
Biography
Brick by Brick Summary
Brick by Brick
How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
by David C. Robertson 2013 320 pages
3.85
2.2K ratings
Business
History
Biography
Balancing Heaven and Earth Summary
Balancing Heaven and Earth
A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations
by Robert A. Johnson 1998 320 pages
4.38
569 ratings
Psychology
Memoir
Spirituality
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
7.8K ratings
Business
Biography
Memoir
Keynes Summary
Keynes
The Return of the Master
by Robert Skidelsky 2009 221 pages
3.78
1.1K ratings
Economics
History
Biography
University of Berkshire Hathaway Summary
University of Berkshire Hathaway
30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
by Daniel Pecaut 2017 338 pages
4.18
3.4K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Muslim Girl Summary
Muslim Girl
A Coming of Age Story
by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 2016 134 pages
3.76
1.4K ratings
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Blood and Oil Summary
Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope 2020 368 pages
4.25
9.3K ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Bibi Summary
Bibi
My Story
by Benjamin Netanyahu 2022 733 pages
4.46
2.0K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Seven Storey Mountain Summary
The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton 1948 467 pages
4.08
20.2K ratings
Spirituality
Biography
Memoir
A Moveable Feast Summary
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 pages
4.02
160.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
France
The Body Papers Summary
The Body Papers
by Grace Talusan 2019 272 pages
4.28
2.0K ratings
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince Summary
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
by Pierre Lassus 2014 240 pages
3.31
49 ratings
Books About Books
Memoir
History
Saints Who Battled Satan Summary
Saints Who Battled Satan
Seventeen Holy Warriors Who Can Teach You How to Fight the Good Fight and Vanquish Your Ancient Enemy
by Paul Thigpen 2015 266 pages
4.35
315 ratings
Catholic
Religion
Christian
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2011 368 pages
3.69
2.3K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Half of It Summary
The Half of It
A Memoir
by Madison Beer 2023 176 pages
4.12
7.2K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
The Heart of a Woman Summary
The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou 1981 288 pages
4.23
24.5K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Grief Is for People Summary
Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley 2024 208 pages
3.85
14.7K ratings
Memoir
Grief
Mental Health
Warsaw Boy Summary
Warsaw Boy
A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
by Andrew Borowiec 2014 377 pages
4.08
174 ratings
History
Biography
World War II
Inside the House of Money Summary
Inside the House of Money
Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
by Steven Drobny 2006 384 pages
4.04
1.3K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
My Body Summary
My Body
by Emily Ratajkowski 2021 239 pages
3.99
79.4K ratings
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou 1987 192 pages
4.09
33.5K ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
Mother Tongue Summary
Mother Tongue
My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
by Christine Gilbert 2016 336 pages
3.72
442 ratings
Travel
Memoir
Language
The Truths We Hold Summary
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
by Kamala Harris 2019 336 pages
4.05
32.1K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
The Leadership of Muhammad Summary
The Leadership of Muhammad
by John Adair 2010 144 pages
4.09
328 ratings
Leadership
Islam
Biography
How I Built This Summary
How I Built This
The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz 2020 320 pages
4.17
4.1K ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Buffettology Summary
Buffettology
The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor
by Mary Buffett 1999 320 pages
4.03
3.9K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Disney War Summary
Disney War
by James B. Stewart 2005 592 pages
4.11
8.1K ratings
Business
History
Biography
Bitcoin Billionaires Summary
Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich 2019 288 pages
3.98
7.4K ratings
Business
Finance
Biography
Look Me in the Eye Summary
Look Me in the Eye
by John Elder Robison 2007 288 pages
3.92
68.9K ratings
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Life in the City of Dirty Water Summary
Life in the City of Dirty Water
A Memoir of Healing
by Clayton Thomas-Muller 2021 200 pages
3.65
3.9K ratings
Memoir
Indigenous
Canada
A Search in Secret India Summary
A Search in Secret India
by Paul Brunton 1934 312 pages
4.28
2.0K ratings
Spirituality
India
Travel
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