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
Let Me Tell You a Story
A Lifetime in the Game
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Two Women Walk into a Bar
Memoir
Short Stories
Biography
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
Fashion
Biography
Self Help
How to Think Like Bill Gates
Biography
Business
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Timelines from Black History
Leaders, Legends, Legacies
History
Race
Historical
Steve Jobs
Thinking Differently
Biography
Business
Biography Memoir
Depression Hates a Moving Target
How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Memoir
Mental Health
Self Help
Proof of Heaven
A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Spirituality
Memoir
Book Club
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
The Way of the Hermit
My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
Memoir
Nature
Biography
Confessions
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Three-Ring Circus
Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Sports
Basketball
History
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Picture Books
Biography
Science
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Finance
Economics
Biography
The Emergency
A Personal History
India
History
Politics
Confidence Game
How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
Finance
Business
Economics
From Fear to Freedom
Living as Sons and Daughters of God
Christian
Memoir
Theology
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
What's It All About
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
The Audacity to Win
The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
Politics
History
Biography
If You Find This Letter
My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Memoir
Biography
Writing
Humans of New York
Stories
Photography
Art
Biography
To Risk It All
Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
History
Military Fiction
Leadership
The Woman All Spies Fear
Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
History
Biography
Historical
7 Lessons from Heaven
How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life
Christian
Spirituality
Religion
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
Biography
Africa
Memoir
Living with the Monks
What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
Castaway
Travel
Biography
Memoir
Mover Of Men and Mountains
Biography
Christian
Business
On Pluto
Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Psychology
Health
26 Marathons
What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
Sports
Memoir
Biography
Every Street Is Paved With Gold
The Road to Real Success
Self Help
Biography
Business
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
Social Justice
Theology
Christian
Dressed Up for a Riot
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Russia
Memoir
Politics
Somewhere Towards the End
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Back to Earth
What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet―And Our Mission to Protect It
Space
Science
Biography
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
Music
Biography
Jazz
Communion
A True Story
Horror
Paranormal
Aliens
Brown Girl Dreaming
Poetry
Memoir
Middle Grade
Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Biography
History
Politics
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
The End of Your Life Book Club
Memoir
Book Club
Books About Books
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
History
Biography
Science
Prisoners of Hope
The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan
Biography
Christian
Memoir
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Rise
Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
Sports
Biography
Basketball
Let Your Mind Run
A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Memoir
Sports
Health
