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 Double Life of Pocahontas
History
Biography
Historical
Careless People
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Memoir
Technology
Business
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
History
Biography
A Piece of Blue Sky
Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Religion
Cults
History
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
Politics
History
Memoir
The Road to Mecca
Islam
Religion
Biography
The Virgin Way
Everything I Know About Leadership
Business
Leadership
Biography
Crisis of Conscience
Religion
Cults
Christianity
Rommel
Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders
History
Leadership
World War II
The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
Humor
Comedy
Memoir
Twelve Years a Slave
History
Classics
Biography
Undaunted Courage
The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
History
Biography
American History
Up from Slavery
History
Biography
Classics
Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic Emperor
Philosophy
Biography
History
A Night to Remember
History
Classics
Historical
I Can Fix This
And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child
Parenting
Memoir
Mental Health
J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker
Insight and Analysis into the Founder of Modern Finance and the American Banking System
Biography
Tweak
Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Memoir
Biography
Mental Health
Sybil
The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Psychology
Biography
Mental Health
Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
Biography
Africa
Somalia
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Beyond Possible
One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Biography
Adventure
Mountaineering
The Monk as Man
The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda
Biography
Spirituality
India
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Music
Theatre
Self Help
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Finance
Business
Biography
The Yank
The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army
Ireland
War
Biography
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
History
Biography
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Biography
Politics
History
The Black Hand
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Politics
Memoir
Leadership
Think and Win like Dhoni
Sports
Biography
Self Help
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
History
Biography
War
Adolf Hitler
History
Biography
World War II
The Only Pirate at the Party
Biography
Memoir
Music
Who Is Government?
The Untold Story of Public Service
Politics
History
Essays
The Emergency
A Personal History
India
History
Politics
Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
History
Philosophy
Biography
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
India’s Railway Man
A Biography of E. Sreedharan
Biography
History
Engineering
Renegade
The Making of a President
Politics
Biography
History
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Literature
Criticism
The Rise
Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
Sports
Biography
Basketball
All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Memoir
History
Biography
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
History
Adventure
Biography
Surprised by Christ
My Journey From Judaism to Orthodox Christianity
Religion
Biography
Christian
The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
History
American History
New York
The Machinery of Life
Science
Biology
Art
Barnum
An American Life
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
