8 must-read biography memoir books like Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss

Cover of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss

Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

By: Gary Weiss

3.92

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose h…

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Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

1. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

2. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

3. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

4. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

5. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stashower's American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

6. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

7. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

Similar categories in David Zucker's Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust by Alan  Payne

8. Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust

By: Alan Payne

4.09

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

How does an iconic brand die? For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America’s favorite way … read more

Similar categories in Alan Payne's Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman

9. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Riesman's Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

10. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum

11. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

By: Dan McCrum

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more

Similar categories in Dan McCrum's Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart

12. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

By: James B. Stewart

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more

Similar categories in James B. Stewart's Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

14. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

15. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

16. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss

17. Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

By: Gary Weiss

3.92

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose h… read more

Similar categories in Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson

18. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Morgenson's These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

19. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith

20. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

By: Ben Smith

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more

Similar categories in Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

21. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

By: Howard Bryant

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more

Similar categories in Howard Bryant's Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

22. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune by Greg Steinmetz

23. American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune

By: Greg Steinmetz

4.03

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The gripping biography of Jay Gould, the greatest 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, gre… read more

Similar categories in Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden

24. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

By: Mark Bowden

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn by Nick Kostov

25. Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn

By: Nick Kostov

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business… read more

Similar categories in Nick Kostov's Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

26. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola

27. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

By: Nicholas Buccola

4.49

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

28. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

Similar categories in Craig Whitlock's Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

29. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

30. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

Similar categories in Peter Pomerantsev's How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar

31. Madoff: The Final Word

By: Richard Behar

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more

Similar categories in Richard Behar's Madoff: The Final Word book and Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook

28 must-read audiobook books like Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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18 Best audiobook books like Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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