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
Meet the Frugalwoods
Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Finance
Memoir
Personal Finance
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Biography
History
Business
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
History
Biography
Military Fiction
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
Biography
Christian
Theology
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
History
Biography
Business
The Biggest Bluff
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Psychology
Memoir
Self Help
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Bond King
How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Finance
Business
Biography
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Science
Biology
Textbooks
Sex Object
A Memoir
Feminism
Memoir
Biography
Your Mom's Gonna Love Me
Memoir
Biography
Humor
The Education of a Value Investor
My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
Finance
Business
Economics
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
What It Takes
Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Business
Biography
Finance
Coming Home
Memoir
Sports
Biography
Scar Tissue
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Road to Character
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Kundalini
The Evolutionary Energy in Man
Spirituality
Religion
Philosophy
Darkness Visible
A Memoir of Madness
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Business
Biography
Finance
Godless
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Biography
Politics
History
Defenders of the West
The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
History
Christianity
Religion
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
History
Biography
Politics
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sociology
Memoir
Economics
Furiously Happy
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
Memoir
Self Help
Finance
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Business
Biography
Leadership
Napoleon
A Life
History
Biography
France
Tantric Quest
An Encounter with Absolute Love
Spirituality
Sexuality
Hinduism
The Last Lecture
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
History
Biography
American History
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money
Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
Business
Biography
Finance
365 Thank Yous
The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
The Visionaries
Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Philosophy
History
Biography
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
History
Japan
Biography
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
Made in Japan
Akio Morita and Sony
Business
Biography
Japan
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
Marx
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
History
Adventure
Travel
Yes, Chef
Memoir
Food
Biography
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Biography
Design
Business
