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 Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
History
Language
Biography
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
History
Art
Architecture
Steve Jobs
The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
Biography
Business
Technology
Leonardo and the Last Supper
History
Art
Biography
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Storm of Steel
History
War
Biography
The Quest for God
A Personal Pilgrimage
Religion
Christianity
Biography
The Inkblots
Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Psychology
History
Biography
Five Chimneys
A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
Holocaust
History
World War II
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Biography
Memoir
Classics
A Writer's Diary
Writing
Classics
Biography
Fate Is the Hunter
Aviation
History
Biography
House of Lies
How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch Then Tell You the Time [May 05, 2005] Kihn, Martin
Business
Management
Media Tie In
The Frontiersmen
History
American History
Historical
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
History
Biography
War
Saved by the Light
The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Biography
Business
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
History
Biography
Italy
On Being Human
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Memoir
Self Help
Biography Memoir
Beyond the Robot
The Life and Work of Colin Wilson
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
History
Biography
Westerns
Play Nice But Win
A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
Business
Biography
Leadership
Alexander the Great
History
Biography
Ancient History
Homage to Catalonia
History
Politics
Classics
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
Slash
Music
Biography
Autobiography
High Achiever
The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Ghost Hunters
William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
History
Science
Paranormal
Renegade
The Making of a President
Politics
Biography
History
Mexico
Biography of Power
History
Politics
Biography
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
History
Classics
Biography
How to Think Like Einstein
Science
Biography
Philosophy
The Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Business
History
Management
Savarkar
A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
History
Biography
India
Killing Jesus
A History
History
Religion
Biography
Called Out
Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling
Biography
Memoir
Leadership
A Numerate Life
A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Politics
Memoir
Leadership
Henry V
The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
History
Biography
Medieval
