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
Confidence Game
Finance
Business
Economics
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
History
Sports
Biography
The Beautiful Struggle
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Race
Damn Right
Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
Business
Biography
Finance
Keynes
A Very Short Introduction
Economics
Biography
History
King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Business
Finance
Biography
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Setting the Table
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Business
Food
Leadership
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
Science
Biography
Physics
The Audacity To Win
Politics
History
Biography
The Sell
The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
Up Till Now
The Autobiography
Biography
Autobiography
Star Trek
Who Owns the Ice House?
Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
Business
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
History
Politics
Memoir
Unfollow
Memoir
Religion
Biography
The Road Ahead
Business
Biography
Technology
Elon Musk
The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success
Biography
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Psychology
Philosophy
Biography
Conversations with RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Biography
History
Politics
The Reluctant Billionaire
How Dilip Shanghvi Became the Richest Self-made Indian
Biography
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
Run or Die
Sports
Biography
Memoir
In Defense of Open Society
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
Friday night lights. Una città, una squadra, un sogno
Sports
Football
History
The Polymath
Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
Self Help
Psychology
History
Amazon
How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce
Business
Biography
Economics
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Science
Memoir
Psychology
Just Kids
Memoir
Music
Biography
Building a Life Worth Living
A Memoir
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
Hi, Anxiety
Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
The Reason
How I Discovered a Life Worth Living
Christian
Biography
Memoir
No Filter
The Inside Story of Instagram
Business
Technology
Biography
The Fear Bubble
Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
Biography
Self Help
Personal Development
Confessions of the Pricing Man
How Price Affects Everything
Business
Economics
Buisness
Don't Burn This Book
Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Politics
Biography
Philosophy
All Boys Aren't Blue
A Memoir-Manifesto
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Business
Biography
Self Help
It's About Damn Time
How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
Business
Self Help
Memoir
Things I Learned From Falling
Memoir
Biography
Travel
Untamed
Memoir
Self Help
Feminism
How We Fight for Our Lives
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
A Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Memoir
Disability
Attention
A Personal History of Finding Focus (or Trying To)
Memoir
Psychology
Mental Health
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics)
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Business
Biography
Leadership
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Sacred Hoops
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Michael Jordan
Biography
Sports
Basketball
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Business
Biography
Technology