Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and everyday heroes share their transformative journeys through success, struggle, and profound change. These intimate portraits and personal stories illuminate the human spirit while offering wisdom, inspiration, and powerful lessons drawn from lived experience.
Biography Book Summaries
The Minds of Billy Milligan
Psychology
Biography
True Crime
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Politics
History
Biography
The Faraway Nearby (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Doglapan
The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
Science
Biography
Biology
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
Biography
Christian
Theology
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
Abroad In Japan
Travel
Japan
Memoir
Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire
Everything I know now about Autism and Asperger's that I wish I'd known then.
Psychology
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Self Help
Good Morning, Monster
A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Biography
Business
Finance
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
What I Know for Sure
Self Help
Memoir
Biography
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Finding My Balance
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
What I Learned Teaching the Children of the 1%
Memoir
Education
Biography Memoir
Eat Pray Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Memoir
Travel
Biography
Walk the Blue Line
No right, no left—just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson.
True Crime
Biography
Crime
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Biography
Business
Technology
Be Useful
Seven Tools for Life
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
How Not to Be a Politician
A Memoir
Politics
Biography
Memoir
A Matter of Death and Life
Psychology
Memoir
Philosophy
Wake Up With Purpose!
What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Woman in Me (Hardback)
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
A House in the Sky
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
In the Form of a Question
The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Man's Search for Meaning
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Mao's America
Politics
History
China
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
2nd Edition (Spiritually Uplifting Books by Al Carraway)
Religion
Lds
Biography
People vs. Donald Trump
An Inside Account
Politics
History
Crime
Moonshot
Biography
Self Help
Science
The 50th Law
Self Help
Business
Psychology
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Business
Biography
Writing
Becoming Myself
Psychology
Memoir
Biography
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Business
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
The Trading Game
Finance
Economics
Biography
Beyond Basketball
Coach K's Keywords for Success
Sports
Basketball
Leadership
Charles Spurgeon
Preaching through Adversity
Biography
Christian
Theology
Highcastle
A Remembrance (The MIT Press)
Biography
Polish Literature
Memoir
The Many Lives of Mama Love
A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
50 Business Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy
Business
Finance
Management
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son
Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
Biography
Business
What the Dead Know
Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Learning from Leonardo
Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius
Science
History
Art
John D. Rockefeller - The Original Titan
Insight and Analysis into the Life of the Richest Man in American History (Business Biographies and Memoirs – Titans of Industry)
Biography
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Religion
Memoir
Biography
Elon Musk
Biography
Business
Technology