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
One from Many
VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Business
Leadership
Finance
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Memoir
Martial Arts
Biography
Scar Tissue
Music
Biography
Memoir
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Science
Biography
History
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
History
Philosophy
Biography
Personal History
Biography
Memoir
History
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Mamba Mentality
How I Play
Sports
Biography
Basketball
The Education of a Coach
Sports
Biography
Football
How to Be Rich
Business
Finance
Money
How to Win at the Sport of Business
If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Before My Heart Stops
A Memoir
Lds
Memoir
Religion
Happiness Is a Choice You Make
Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
Self Help
Psychology
Health
One Hundred Names for Love
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Herbie Hancock
Possibilities
Music
Biography
Jazz
What's It All About
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Classics
Memoir
Biography
Born to Run
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Burger King
Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire
Business
Biography
Food
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
Memoir
Race
Biography
You Are Worth It
Building a Life Worth Fighting For
Military Fiction
Memoir
War
Bird Watching
On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love
Sports
Basketball
Memoir
Life on Delay
Making Peace with a Stutter
Memoir
Disability
Biography
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist
Self Help
Mental Health
Memoir
The Way of the Hermit
My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
Memoir
Nature
Biography
Made in Japan
Akio Morita and Sony
Business
Biography
Japan
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Peacebunny Island
The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us about Hope and Kindness
Animals
Adult
Inspirational
Saved
A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Memoir
Biography
War
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
Business
Biography
Philosophy
Mother American Night
My Life in Crazy Times
Biography
Music
Memoir
Karate-Do
My Way of Life
Martial Arts
Biography
Philosophy
Down the Rabbit Hole
Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
One Click
Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Business
Biography
Technology
Amazon Unbound
Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Business
Biography
Technology
The Key Man
The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
Business
Finance
Economics
Bihar Diaries
Crime
India
Biography
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
Business
Finance
Money
I Am Malala
How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
Biography
Memoir
Middle Grade
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Biography
History
Politics
I Am Ozzy
Music
Biography
Autobiography
The Great Guide
What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well
Philosophy
Biography
Self Help
The Dark Side of Innocence
Growing Up Bipolar
Memoir
Mental Health
Psychology
Haldol and Hyacinths
A Bipolar Life
Memoir
Mental Health
Mental Illness
Hot Seat
Business
Leadership
Biography
In Love
A Memoir of Love and Loss
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Business
Technology
History
After Steve
How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Business
Biography
Technology
The New Market Wizards
Conversations with America's Top Traders
Finance
Business
Economics