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 Buy Side
A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Finance
Business
Biography
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Music
Biography
History
Hotel Babylon
Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
Travel
Memoir
Humor
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Classics
Poetry
Memoir
The Hero's Journey
Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Mythology
Writing
Philosophy
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
History
Classics
Biography
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
The Partnership
The Making of Goldman Sachs
Business
Finance
History
This American Woman
A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
Leonardo and the Last Supper
History
Art
Biography
Ghost Hunters
William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
History
Science
Paranormal
Flying on the Inside
A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
Essays
Humor
Memoir
Comedy
Enough
Politics
Memoir
History
Psychic Warrior
The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program
Paranormal
History
Biography
Black Like Me
History
Memoir
Classics
Raquel
Beyond the Cleavage
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
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
Humanly Possible
Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Philosophy
History
Biography
SMiLE
The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
Music
Biography
Rock N Roll
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Biography
History
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
Memoir
Biography
Travel
The Inkblots
Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Psychology
History
Biography
Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
See A Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Music
Memoir
Biography
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Apprentice
My Life in the Kitchen
Food
Memoir
Biography
The Quest for God
A Personal Pilgrimage
Religion
Christianity
Biography
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
How to Think Like Einstein
Science
Biography
Philosophy
Edmund Burke
A Genius Reconsidered
Biography
History
Politics
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Biography
Business
The Cartiers
The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
History
Biography
Fashion
Carry On, Warrior
Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
My Effin' Life
Music
Biography
Memoir
LET IT GO
The Entrepreneur Turned Ardent Philanthropist
Biography
Business
Memoir
On Being Human
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Memoir
Self Help
Biography Memoir
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Biography
Memoir
Humor
The Forgotten Highlander
My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
History
Biography
War
A Numerate Life
A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
Mathematics
Science
Biography
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
Music
Biography
History
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Miss May Does Not Exist
The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Biography
Film
Biography Memoir
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Memoir
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Writing
Biography
History
Beyond the Robot
The Life and Work of Colin Wilson
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
History
Biography
Aviation
