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The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

30 min4.4

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

Nabeel Qureshi

A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

20 min4.2

Being Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Burstein

An Intimate History

24 min4.3

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

15 min4.4

Future Forward

Glenn Rifkin

Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern

23 min4.8

Amazon Unbound

Brad Stone

Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

21 min4.4

Napoleon the Great

Andrew Roberts

How Napoleon Conquered Europe and Changed the World

34 min4.6

The Snowball

Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

35 min4.6

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Emergency

Neil Strauss

This Book Will Save Your Life

18 min3.3

The Promise of a Pencil

Adam Braun

How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

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The Blue Sweater

Jacqueline Novogratz

Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

0 min4.6

The Black Jacobins

C.L.R. James

Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

28 min4.6

Mandela’s Way

Richard Stengel

Lessons on Life

0 min4.4

Mandelas Weg

Richard Stengel

Liebe, Mut, Verantwortung – Die Weisheit eines Lebens

27 min4.5

Things a Little Bird Told Me

Biz Stone

Confessions of a Creative Mind

0 min4.1

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo

Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

17 min4.3

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Athletes' Road to Glory

Stories and insights from iconic athletes and Olympians

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Behind the Music

Stories of the melodies and minds that shaped our worlds

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Rebel Entrepreneurs

Lessons from the business world's rule breakers and risk takers

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Books about Nobel Laureates

Dive into the live and work of history's most notable nobel laureates

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Survivor Stories

Stories of lived experiences and triumphs against all odds

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The Truth About Giving Back

A closer look at charity and the reality of its impact

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Famous Last Words

The final works of authors who have left our world

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Best Memoirs

Memoirs to teach and transport you

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

The harrowing experiences of the author in a concentration camp

17 min4.3

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Chronicles of a Tortured Soul

13 min3.6

Bedtime Biography: Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race

45 min4.4

Good Arguments

Bo Seo

How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

25 min4.6

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Peter D. Kaufman

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

26 min4.3

Relationship Goals

Michael Todd

How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

23 min2.9

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Innocence Lost, Strength Found

15 min4.0

What I Know for Sure

Oprah Winfrey

Collected life lessons from Oprah's popular column

12 min4.4

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

A Journey to Reckoning with Mortality

16 min4.7

From Third World to First

Lee Kuan Yew

The Singapore Story: 1965-2000

21 min4.6

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

The bestselling inspiration for the hit Broadway musical

38 min4.6

Bedtime Biography: Madame Curie

Eve Curie

A Biography

26 min4.7

The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

26 min4.2

Charlie Munger

Tren Griffin

The Complete Investor

13 min4.2

A Hymn to Life

Gisèle Pelicot

Shame has to Change Sides

21 min

The 50th Law

50 Cent and Robert Greene

50 Cent's Secrets to Fearlessness and Success

18 min4.0

Conspiracy

Ryan Holiday

Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

17 min4.2

Alexander the Great

Philip Freeman

The Macedonian who conquered the world

28 min4.6

Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography

M.K. Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

30 min4.5

Nanaville

Anna Quindlen

Adventures in Grandparenting

17 min3.8

The Madness of Believing

Josh Owens

A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones's Conspiracy Machine

24 min4.1

Bedtime Biography: Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

The Autobiography

35 min4.6

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman

Adventures of a Curious Character

8 min3.4

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

A Tale of Two Mirrored Fates

15 min4.6

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