16 Best history books like Speaking of Harpo by Susan Fleming Marx

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Speaking of Harpo

By: Susan Fleming Marx

4.11

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on…

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1. The Executioner's Song

By: Norman Mailer

4.06

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short… read more

Similar categories in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Love, Lucy

By: Lucille Ball

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

"I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

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3. Zone One

By: Colson Whitehead

3.26

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The pl… read more

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  • audiobook
"A society manufactures the heroes it requires."

-Colson Whitehead, Zone One

"He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it."

-Colson Whitehead, Zone One

"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."

-Colson Whitehead, Zone One

"Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time."

-Colson Whitehead, Zone One

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4. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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5. Son of Harpo Speaks!

By: Bill Marx

3.86

Format: 445 pages,

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Similar categories in Bill Marx's Son of Harpo Speaks! book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
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6. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

Similar categories in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House

By: Steve Stoliar

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Presents an intimate portrait of the legendary comedian by a young fan who became Groucho's persona… read more

Similar categories in Steve Stoliar's Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • nonfiction
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8. Growing Up With Chico

By: Maxine Marx

4.00

Format: 321 pages,

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Similar categories in Maxine Marx's Growing Up With Chico book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
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9. Dead End in Norvelt

By: Jack Gantos

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dead End in Norveltis the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to chil… read more

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10. The Marx Brothers Scrapbook

By: Groucho Marx , Richard J. Anobile

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A film biography about America's funniest brothers read more

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11. Harpo Speaks!

By: Rowland Barber , None

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Des… read more

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12. Groucho and Me

By: Groucho Marx

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Gro… read more

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13. Personal Memoirs

By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more

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14. Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.11

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7) book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • audiobook
Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

15. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions

By: Steve Martin

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin’s cinematic legacy―an illustrated memoir of his legendary act… read more

Similar categories in Steve Martin's Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz

17. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

By: Andy Borowitz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more

Similar categories in Andy Borowitz's Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"

-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

18. 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 Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series

By: Jessica Radloff

4.48

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the most popular sitcom of the last decade, The Big Bang … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Radloff's The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks

21. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more

Similar categories in Mel Brooks's All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."

-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

Cover of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

22. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

Similar categories in Dean Jobb's The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

23. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Speaking of Harpo

By: Susan Fleming Marx

4.11

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight films before she turned her back on… read more

Similar categories in Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens

25. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

By: Dana Stevens

4.19

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more

Similar categories in Dana Stevens's Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs by Andrew  Rannells

26. Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs

By: Andrew Rannells

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Candid, hilarious essays from the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls, and Big Mouth on anxiety, ambi… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Rannells's Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman

27. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

Similar categories in Scott Eyman's Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet by Olivia Hussey

28. The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet

By: Olivia Hussey

4.05

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The 1960s starlet, immortalized on the silver screen as Juliet, tells her story in this celebrity b… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Don Rickles: Merchant of Venom by Michael Seth Starr

29. Don Rickles: Merchant of Venom

By: Michael Seth Starr

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Considered the world's greatest insult comic, Don Rickles was a legendary comedy giant, honorary Ra… read more

Similar categories in Michael Seth Starr's Don Rickles: Merchant of Venom book and Susan Fleming Marx's Speaking of Harpo

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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30. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Marx Brothers Miscellany - A Subjective Appreciation of the World’s Greatest Comedy Team by Trav S.D.

31. The Marx Brothers Miscellany - A Subjective Appreciation of the World’s Greatest Comedy Team

By: Trav S.D.

3.75

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Colson Whitehead

3.26

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4.11

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6 Top nonfiction books like Growing Up With Chico by Maxine Marx

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3.81

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Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions

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