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
Amp It Up
Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
Business
Leadership
Management
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Biography
Design
Business
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
History
Biography
Politics
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Mountaineering
Adventure
Biography
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
History
Biography
Finance
Yes, Chef
Memoir
Food
Biography
Making It So
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
At the Existentialist Café
Philosophy
History
Biography
The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Business
Technology
Biography
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
Consider This
Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Basketball Junkie
Memoir
Sports
Basketball
Godless
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Biography
Politics
History
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Science
Biography
Biology
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
Sports
Soccer
Book Club
A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Education
Disability
Memoir
The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison*
Inside Oracle Corporation; *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
Business
Biography
Technology
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
Sacred Hoops
SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sociology
Memoir
Economics
The Half of It
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Feminism
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Paul
The Pagans' Apostle
Religion
History
Christianity
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Business
Biography
Finance
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
History
France
Biography
Committed
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Memoir
Biography
Relationships
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership
Business
Biography
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
History
Biography
American History
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
I Forgot to Die
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
Books About Books
Memoir
History
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
Expecting Adam
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Memoir
Book Club
Parenting
Samsung Rising
The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
Business
Technology
History
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Science
Memoir
Psychology
If Truth Be Told
A Monk's Memoir
Spirituality
Biography
Self Help
Free the Children
A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World
Biography Memoir
Childrens
Social Justice
