8 must-read biography books like All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield

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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d…

If you liked the biography plot in All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • art
  • audiobook
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2. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker

4. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • art
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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6. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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7. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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8. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more

Similar categories in Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

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

9. 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 Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

11. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • audiobook
Cover of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton

12. The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War

By: Giles Milton

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motl… read more

Similar categories in Giles Milton's The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

Cover of Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order by Yuan Yang

14. Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order

By: Yuan Yang

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women stri… read more

Similar categories in Yuan Yang's Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

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16. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more

Similar categories in Phil Elwood's All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

17. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power by Tom Bower

18. The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

3.01

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosiv… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bower's The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

19. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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21. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Swire's Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power book and Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

19 Best audiobook books like All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Bianca Bosker

4.16

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21 must-read audiobook books like Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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