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
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Memoir
Biography
Poetry
The Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
On Pluto
Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Psychology
Health
How to Think Like da Vinci
Biography
Art
Memoir
Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
History
True Crime
Crime
Choosing to SEE
A Journey of Struggle and Hope
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Brown Girl Dreaming
Poetry
Memoir
Middle Grade
Becoming Kim Jong Un
A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
History
Biography
Politics
The World's Strongest Librarian
A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Memoir
Biography
Books About Books
Empire of the Summer Moon
History
Biography
American History
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Memoir
Music
Feminism
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
Politics
Memoir
African American
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Memoir
The Real Mad Men
The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
History
Business
Biography
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Biography
Memoir
Self Help
Freaks, Geeks & Aspergers Syndrome
A User Guide to Adolescence
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Aspergers
The Road Beneath My Feet
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Vaccine
Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
Science
History
Medicine
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
Prisoner
My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
Memoir
Iran
Biography
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
Travel
Memoir
Greece
Fighter Pilot
The Memoirs Of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
Biography
Aviation
History
Days of Fire
Bush and Cheney in the White House
History
Politics
Biography
True Hallucinations
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
Einstein and the Rabbi
Searching for the Soul
Judaism
Religion
Spirituality
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
A Life in Parts
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Your Life in My Hands
A Junior Doctor's Story
Medicine
Medical
Memoir
Everyone You Hate is Going to Die
And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
A Lab of One's Own
One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
Science
Feminism
Memoir
Hi, Anxiety
Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Science
Math and the Mona Lisa
Science
History
Mathematics
The Special One
The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho
Football
Sports
Biography
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Finance
Economics
Biography
A Chance to Die
The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Mover Of Men and Mountains
Biography
Christian
Business
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
Charles Dickens in Love
Biography
British Literature
Literature
Walk the Blue Line
They Walk the Line between Life and Death
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Unbearable Lightness
A Story of Loss and Gain
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Never Enough
Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success
Biography
Politics
Business
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Business
Technology
Biography
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
Business
Finance
History
We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
History
Biography
British Literature
Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl
And Why You Should, Too
Finance
Business
Money
Gladys Aylward
The Little Woman
Biography
Christian
China
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
True Crime
Crime
Horror
