Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and extraordinary individuals share their triumphs, struggles, and deepest wisdom. Through intimate portraits and candid reflections, these personal stories illuminate the human spirit while offering powerful insights into success, resilience, and the pursuit of meaning.
Biography Book Summaries
Meaningful Work
A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
Sound
A Story of Hearing Lost and Found
Memoir
Biography
Disability
Over the Edge of the World
Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
History
Biography
Adventure
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
History
Pirates
True Crime
The Apprentice
My Life in the Kitchen
Food
Memoir
Biography
Guns & Thighs
The Story of My Life
Biography
India
Dinner for Vampires
Life on a Cult TV Show
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Jack Welch and the GE Way
Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
Business
Leadership
Management
The Melting Point
High Command and War in the 21st Century
Military Fiction
History
Memoir
SMiLE
The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
Music
Biography
Rock N Roll
41
A Portrait of My Father
Biography
History
Politics
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
Humor
Essays
Memoir
This American Woman
A One-In-A-Billion Memoir
Memoir
Humor
Biography Memoir
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
Glock
The Rise of America's Gun
History
Business
Military Fiction
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey into Bhutan
Travel
Memoir
Asia
Prince
Inside the Music and the Masks
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Memoir
The Hero's Journey
Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Mythology
Writing
Philosophy
Darwin and Evolution
Science
Evolution
Biography
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
Biography Memoir
Why We Love Pirates
The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
History
Pirates
Historical
Microbe Hunters
Science
History
Biology
The Prosecutor
Law
Memoir
Biography
Boy Meets Depression
Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
Mental Health
Memoir
Psychology
One Direction
Who We Are: Our Official Autobiography
Biography
Music
Autobiography
What On Earth Have I Done?
Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
You'll Never Believe Me
A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
Glory Days
The Bruce Springsteen Story
Music
Biography
History
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Reading the Constitution
Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Politics
Law
History
Get Me Out of Here
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
One Bird's Choice
A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home
Memoir
Canada
Biography
No Cure for Being Human
And Other Truths I Need to Hear
Memoir
Self Help
Biography
My Effin' Life
Music
Biography
Memoir
Black Tooth Grin
The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
Music
Biography
One Train Later
A Memoir
Music
Biography
Autobiography
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Music
Biography
Memoir
Miss May Does Not Exist
The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Biography
Film
Biography Memoir
Heroes And Villains
The True Story Of The Beach Boys
Music
Biography
History
Follow Every Rainbow
Business
Entrepreneurship
Self Help
It's All About Muhammad
A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet
Biography
Religion
History
Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Philosophy
Mathematics
Science
Popper Selections
Philosophy
Science
Biography
Raiders and Rebels
The Golden Age of Piracy
History
Pirates
True Crime
A History of Islam in 21 Women
Islam
History
Religion
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Biography
History
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
