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
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sociology
Memoir
Economics
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Business
Biography
Finance
Lone Survivor
The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Military Fiction
History
War
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
History
Business
Science
Jony Ive
The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Biography
Design
Business
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Biography
Politics
History
Yes, Chef
Memoir
Food
Biography
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
History
Biography
American History
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
A Well-Trained Wife
My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
Living with the Himalayan Masters
Spirituality
Philosophy
Religion
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
Self Help
Psychology
Memoir
Private Equity
A Memoir
Memoir
Business
Biography
Crisis of Conscience
Religion
Cults
Christianity
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
Winning
Business
Leadership
Management
The Visionaries
Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Philosophy
History
Biography
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Science
Biography
Biology
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Business
Biography
Memoir
No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Mountaineering
Adventure
Biography
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Furiously Happy
A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Memoir
Mental Health
Biography
Free the Children
A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World
Biography Memoir
Childrens
Social Justice
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Forgiveness
Memoir
Canada
Book Club
Paul
The Pagans' Apostle
Religion
History
Christianity
Sacred Hoops
SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
Sports
Basketball
Biography
Expecting Adam
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Memoir
Book Club
Parenting
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
365 Thank Yous
The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Memoir
Self Help
Book Club
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
History
Biography
Finance
I Forgot to Die
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Last Lecture
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Samsung Rising
The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
Business
Technology
History
Making It So
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
American Sniper
The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
History
Japan
Biography
Reasons to Stay Alive
Mental Health
Self Help
Memoir
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Classics
Philosophy
Nature
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
Memoir
Self Help
Finance
At the Existentialist Café
Philosophy
History
Biography
50 People Every Christian Should Know
Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith
Biography
Christian
History
Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Philosophy
Martial Arts
Self Help
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
History
Adventure
Travel
Consider This
Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Poverty Safari
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
