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
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Business
Education
Biography
Lipstick Jihad
A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Memoir
Iran
Biography Memoir
Confronting the Presidents
No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
History
Politics
Biography
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
Memoir
Biography
Feminism
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
Red Scarf Girl
History
Memoir
China
Every Second Counts
Biography
Sports
Cycling
Bits and Pieces
My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Never Stop Walking
A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Memoir
Biography
Adoption
Conspiracy
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Business
History
Politics
Gridiron Genius
A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
Sports
Football
Leadership
Giants of Enterprise
Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Business
History
Leadership
War Room
Sports
Football
Biography
The Path to Power
Biography
History
Politics
Fear
Trump in the White House
Politics
History
Biography
The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Business
Technology
Biography
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
True Crime
Crime
Abuse
My Beloved World
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
History
Politics
Asia
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
25 Hours a Day
Going One More to Get What You Want
Self Help
Personal Development
Biography
Muhammad
A Biography of the Prophet
Religion
Islam
History
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Memoir
China
Biography
Adversity for Sale
Ya Gotta Believe
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Scatter Brain
How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer
Adhd
Memoir
Biography
The Phantom Prince
My Life with Ted Bundy
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
No Filter
The Inside Story of Instagram
Business
Technology
Biography
Socrates
A Man for Our Times
Philosophy
Biography
History
My Bondage and My Freedom
History
Biography
Classics
Orange Is the New Black
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
How to Fail
Self Help
Memoir
Psychology
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Book Club
Memoir
Biography
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Biography
Business
Finance
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
History
Magic
Biography
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Politics
Biography
Memoir
War as I Knew It
History
Biography
Military Fiction
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
History
Memoir
Espionage
Benjamin Graham
The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street
Finance
Biography
Business
The Giant Killer
The shocking true story of a homeless war hero, hidden spy and his eterrnal vow to the woman he loved.
Military Fiction
History
Biography
My Broken Language
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Business
Accounting
Memoir
Sickened
The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
Israel
Politics
Memoir
Quiet Strength
The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life
Christian
Leadership
Biography
Tricks of the Mind
Psychology
Magic
Science
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Biography
Religion
Philosophy
The Beauty of Dusk
Memoir
Biography
Medical
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
