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
From Miniskirt to Hijab
A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Iran
Memoir
Biography
A Life on the Edge
Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
Mountaineering
Adventure
Memoir
Matriarch
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Diana
Her True Story in Her Own Words
Biography
History
Memoir
Re-Sisters
The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Music
Biography
Memoir
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
Mathematics
Science
Economics
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Economics
Politics
Business
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
In My Time of Dying
How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Memoir
Science
Biography
Packing Light
Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage
Memoir
Self Help
Travel
The Reconnection
Heal Others, Heal Yourself
Spirituality
Health
New Age
My Friend Anne Frank
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
History
Memoir
Biography
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
History
Westerns
Biography
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
What I Ate in One Year
Memoir
Food
Biography
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Education
Memoir
Biography
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Finance
Business
Economics
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Dead Mom Walking
A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
Memoir
Canada
Biography
The Sound of the Machine
My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond
Music
Biography
Autobiography
The Gulag Archipelago
History
Russia
Politics
My Father's Brain
Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Health
Science
The Perfect Mile
Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Sports
History
Biography
The Machinery of Life
Science
Biology
Art
Papillon
Biography
Classics
Memoir
Force of Nature
Mind, Body, Soul
Biography
Sports
Fitness
You Have a Brain
A Teen's Guide to T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G.
Self Help
Biography
Inspirational
Whale Hunt in the Desert
Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
Biography
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Humor
Parenting
Memoir
True Hallucinations
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
The Man Who Ran Washington
The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Biography
Politics
History
Jung the Mystic
The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life & Teachings
Psychology
Biography
Spirituality
How Music Works
Music
History
Art
Blood and Thunder
An Epic of the American West
History
American History
Biography
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
History
Biography
Middle Grade
An Ugly Truth
Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Business
Technology
Politics
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
The Education of an Accidental CEO
Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Business
Leadership
Biography
All or Nothing
How Trump Recaptured America
Politics
History
Journalism
The Black Hand
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Evolution's Captain
The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
History
Biography
Science
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
The Basketball Diaries
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Reham Khan
Biography
Pakistan
Autobiography
By Way of Deception
The Making of a Mossad Officer
History
Espionage
Politics
Adolf Hitler
History
Biography
World War II
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
Memoir
Music
Biography
Attention
A Love Story
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
Courage to Soar
A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Memoir
Sports
Biography
