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
The Giant Killer
The Unbelievable True Story of the Smallest Special Forces Soldier to Ever Serve Who Became a War Hero; Whose Life and Death are Shrouded in Mystery
Military Fiction
History
Biography
Brave Genius
A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
History
Science
Biography
The Book of Charlie
Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Biography
Memoir
History
Moneyball
Sports
Baseball
Business
To Risk It All
Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
History
Military Fiction
Leadership
Invent and Wander
The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
Business
Biography
Leadership
Never Enough
Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success
Biography
Politics
Business
Orphan Bachelors
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Biography
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The Visionaries
Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Philosophy
History
Biography
Grant
History
Biography
Civil War
J. K. Rowling
The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
Biography
Biography Memoir
Childrens
Adversity for Sale
Ya Gotta Believe
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
George Washington
Biography
History
Presidents
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
Zero Regrets
Be Greater Than Yesterday
Biography
Sports
Autobiography
Just Another Kid
Psychology
Memoir
Education
Somebody Else's Kids
Psychology
Memoir
Education
Politics
Between the Extremes
Politics
Biography
Biography Memoir
Coach
Lessons on the Game of Life
Sports
Baseball
Biography
Getting Castaneda
Understanding Carlos Castaneda
Biography
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Medicine
Memoir
Medical
Quantum Man
Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Science
Biography
Physics
Windswept & Interesting
My Autobiography
Biography
Autobiography
Humor
Three Pianos
A Memoir
Memoir
Music
Biography
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Africa
Memoir
Biography
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Listening to the Animals
Becoming the Supervet
Biography
Animals
Memoir
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
Seven Letters from Paris
Memoir
Romance
France
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
Memoir
Biography
Southern
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
Memoir
Science
Medical
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Biography
Religion
Philosophy
The Minds of Billy Milligan
Psychology
True Crime
Biography
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Politics
History
Biography
The Faraway Nearby
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Doglapan
The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Science
Biography
Biology
The Father of Spin
Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
Biography
Psychology
History
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
Biography
Christian
Theology
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Little Earthquakes
A Memoir
Memoir
Mental Health
Unfinished
Abroad in Japan
Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
Travel
Japan
Memoir
Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire
Everything I know about Autism, ASD, and Asperger's that I wish I'd known back then...
Psychology
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Biography
Good Morning, Monster
A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
