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
Just Another Kid
Psychology
Memoir
Education
In the Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Business
Technology
History
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Business
History
Biography
Surviving to Drive
Sports
Biography
Memoir
Daughters of the Samurai
A Journey from East to West and Back
History
Japan
Biography
Last Man Standing
The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
Business
Biography
Finance
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
When Breath Becomes Air
Memoir
Biography
Medicine
Getting to Us
How Great Coaches Make Great Teams
Sports
Leadership
Basketball
No Hero
The Evolution of a Navy SEAL
Military Fiction
History
Biography
Google It
A History of Google
Business
History
Technology
The Spotify Play
How Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
Business
Music
Biography
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
The Life and Loves of a He Devil
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Housekeeper's Secret
Memoir
Biography
Mystery
The Beautiful Struggle
A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Memoir
Biography
Race
Moonshot
A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
Biography
Science
Space
The Sell
The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
I Can't Make This Up
Life Lessons
Biography
Humor
Memoir
There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
History
Africa
Nigeria
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
Good Time Girl
Memoir
Biography
Religion
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
Loud
Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
Memoir
Feminism
Self Help
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Self Help
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
LGBT
Biography
Memoir
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
Out with It
How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Why Not Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Unmasked
My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
History
Biography
Philosophy
Handcrafted
A Woodworker's Story
Biography
Memoir
Woodwork
Lost and Founder
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Trump
Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life
Business
Finance
Self Help
There's More to Life Than This
Spirituality
Memoir
Inspirational
Martin Luther
The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Biography
History
Christian
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Leadership
Biography
Memoir
The Facebook Effect
The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
Business
Technology
Biography
Pageboy
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Girl With No Job
The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
Memoir
Biography
Pop Culture
Sastun
My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Memoir
Anthropology
Biography Memoir
A Childhood
The Biography of a Place
Memoir
Biography
Southern
Run Baby Run
Christian
Biography
Memoir
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Religion
Memoir
Biography
All Too Human
Politics
Biography
Memoir
What I Know for Sure
Self Help
Memoir
Biography
Eat a Peach
Memoir
Food
Biography
The Intel Trinity
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
Business
Technology
Biography
