Because if we can't learn from experience, we can at least learn from the experiences of other people! Bookstores and libraries practically bend with biographies as a result of this total truism, although some quite obviously have just a little more to offer the world than a few of their shelfmates! Whether because of some deep digging into history and culture, staggering insight into the human condition, or laughter and great storytelling — or, obviously, some combination thereof — the following stand as a primer on the biographies and autobiographies with plenty of content to keep minds engaged. Use them as a launching point to read about even more men and women you might find fascinating!

Chapter 1. Abraham Lincoln

-Chapter 2. George Washington

-Chapter 3. John F. Kennedy

-Chapter 4. Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Chapter 5. Thomas Jefferson

-Chapter 6. John Adams

-Chapter 7. Benjamin Franklin

-Chapter 8. Christopher Columbus

-Chapter 9. Neil Armstrong

-Chapter 10. Marco Polo

-Chapter 11. Mohandas Gandhi

Chapter 12. Martin Luther King, Jr

-Chapter 13. Rosa Parks

-Chapter 14. Mother Theresa

-Chapter 15. Alexander the Great

-Chapter 16. Augustus

-Chapter 17. Napoleon Bonaparte

-Chapter 18. Leonid Brezhnev

-Chapter 19. Julius Caesar

-Chapter 20. Fidel Castro

-Chapter 21. Charlemagne

-Chapter 22. Winston Churchill

-Chapter 23. Cleopatra VII

-Chapter 24. Constantine the Great

-Chapter 25. Cyrus the Great

-Chapter 26.. Jefferson Davis

-Chapter 27. Queen Elizabeth I

Chapter 28. Hatshepsut

-Chapter 29. Genghis Khan

-Chapter 30. Hammurabi

-Chapter 31. Mikhail Gorbachev

-Chapter 32. Adolf Hitler

-Chapter 33. King Henry VIII

-Chapter 34. Joan Of Arc

Chapter 35. Kublai Khan

-Chapter 36. Vladimir Lenin

zChapter 37. Tsar Nicholas II

zChapter 38. Benito Mussolini

zChapter 39. Pericles

zChapter 40. Emperor Qin

zChapter 41. Saladin

zChapter 42. Joseph Stalin

zChapter 43. Suleiman the Magnificent

zChapter 44. Queen Victoria

zChapter 45. Ramses II

zChapter 46. William the Conqueror

zChapter 47. Empress Wu

zChapter 48. Mao Zedong

zChapter 49. Margaret Thatcher

zChapter 50. Dwight D. Eisenhower

zChapter 51. Famous Native Americans

zChapter 52. Famous Queens