Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages through intimate portraits of world leaders, everyday heroes, and remarkable personalities who shaped our world. Whether following someone's complete life journey or focusing on transformative moments, these carefully researched accounts reveal the triumphs, struggles, and wisdom of human experience.
Biography Book Summaries
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Criticism
Literature
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
How to Fail
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Business
Education
Biography
Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
Biography
Politics
Memoir
My Broken Language
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
History
China
Jewish
My Beloved World
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
What in the World?!
A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Sastun
My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Memoir
Anthropology
Biography Memoir
Saved
A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Memoir
Biography
War
Writing My Wrongs
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Memoir
Martial Arts
China
Confronting the Presidents
No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
History
Politics
Biography
How Life Imitates Chess
Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Chess
Business
Biography
The Giant Killer
The shocking true story of a homeless war hero, hidden spy and his eterrnal vow to the woman he loved.
Military Fiction
History
Biography
Every Second Counts
Biography
Sports
Cycling
The Sound of Music Story
How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
History
Music
Biography
Quantum
Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Science
Physics
History
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Memoir
Death
Science
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
True Crime
Crime
History
My Bondage and My Freedom
History
Biography
Classics
Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
History
Politics
Asia
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Biography
Business
Finance
My Life in Red and White
Sports
Biography
Football
Start, Stay, or Leave
The Art of Decision Making
Self Help
Politics
Business
Anne Frank
The Biography
Biography
History
Holocaust
Please Stop Laughing at Us... One Woman's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying
Education
Autobiography
Biography
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Memoir
China
Biography
Dream with Your Eyes Open
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
If We Break
A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Providence
The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest
Biography
Philosophy
Memoir
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
The Sound of Gravel
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
A Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Brothers
Music
Biography
Memoir
John D. Rockefeller - The Original Titan
Insight and Analysis into the Life of the Richest Man in American History
Biography
Hope
The Autobiography
Biography
Religion
Memoir
Tunesmith
Inside the Art of Songwriting
Music
Writing
History
The Woman in Me
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Book Club
Memoir
Biography
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
Philosophy
Biography
Biography Memoir
Will
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Sports
Basketball
History
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
History
Biography
Medieval History
A Life in Football
My Autobiography
Football
Biography
Sports
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
History
Christian
Gridiron Genius
A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
Sports
Football
Leadership
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
History
Medicine
Science
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
Politics
Biography
Memoir
