18 best-selling biography books like One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters

Cover of One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters

One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

By: Jonathan Vaughters

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo…

If you liked the biography plot in One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell

1. Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

By: Reed Albergotti , Vanessa O'Connell

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built … read more

Similar categories in Reed Albergotti's Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
"He is a man of great strength, determination, and resilience, and we truly hope that he will use those qualities to make a moral comeback as complete as the physical comeback he effected from the can…"

-Reed Albergotti, Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

"...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and…"

-Reed Albergotti, Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

Cover of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal by Daniel Friebe

2. Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal

By: Daniel Friebe

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For 14 years between 1965 and 1978, Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx simply devoured his rivals, their h… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Friebe's Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
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3. Draft Animals

By: Phil Gaimon

3.60

Format: 246 pages,

From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man's… read more

Similar categories in Phil Gaimon's Draft Animals book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh

4. Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

By: David Walsh

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist David Walsh, the definitive account of the author's twelve-year quest… read more

Similar categories in David Walsh's Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of The Climb: The Autobiography by David Walsh, Chris Froome

5. The Climb: The Autobiography

By: David Walsh , Chris Froome

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht by Thijs Zonneveld

6. Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht

By: Thijs Zonneveld

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thomas Dekker (1984) heeft genoeg van de leugens. Zijn echte verhaal is nog nooit verteld. De waarh… read more

Similar categories in Thijs Zonneveld's Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages by Richard  Moore

7. Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages

By: Richard Moore

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In ETAPE, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France, … read more

Similar categories in Richard Moore's Etape: The untold stories of the Tour de France's defining stages book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • cycling
Cover of The Loyal Lieutenant: Leading Out Lance and Pushing Through the Pain on the Rocky Road to Paris by George Hincapie, Craig Hummer

8. The Loyal Lieutenant: Leading Out Lance and Pushing Through the Pain on the Rocky Road to Paris

By: George Hincapie , Craig Hummer

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Trading on the sterling reputation that enabled him to survive a widely publicized doping confessio… read more

Similar categories in George Hincapie's The Loyal Lieutenant: Leading Out Lance and Pushing Through the Pain on the Rocky Road to Paris book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling

9. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more

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10. The Rider

By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more

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11. Ask a Pro: Everything You Should Be Scared to Know about Pro Cycling

By: Phil Gaimon

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

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12. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France

By: Richard Moore

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more

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13. Racing Through the Dark

By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more

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14. Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro

By: Phil Gaimon

3.96

Format: None pages,

Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a b… read more

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15. The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography

By: Matt Rendell

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

At 9:30 pm on February 14, 2004, former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani was found dead in Rimin… read more

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Cover of Tour de Force by Mark Cavendish

16. Tour de Force

By: Mark Cavendish

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. " That was perhaps the last race of my career..."' Dee… read more

Similar categories in Mark Cavendish's Tour de Force book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe

17. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was

By: Daniel Friebe

4.31

Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Friebe's Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey by Geraint Thomas

18. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

Similar categories in Geraint Thomas's The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham

19. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Graham's Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels by Jonathan Vaughters

20. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

By: Jonathan Vaughters

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling by Alex Dowsett

21. Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling

By: Alex Dowsett

4.55

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely readable and revea… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dowsett's Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • cycling
Cover of The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton by The Secret Cyclist

22. The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

By: The Secret Cyclist

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy? "Every public aspect of our lives is so tight… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Cyclist's The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
"To me, cycling can be glorious and it can be grubby, but quite often, it’s neither. It’s just pedalling for hours and hours for relatively little in return."

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"It takes a special kind of person to want to be a professional cyclist. If you have another opportunity, such as university, you really have to think long and hard about it, because unless you’re ver…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it suc…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

Cover of Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling by Dan Martin

23. Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling

By: Dan Martin

3.93

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is Dan Martin's long-awaited autobiography, full of 'the warmth, sharp insights and vivid col… read more

Similar categories in Dan Martin's Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

24. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more

Similar categories in Andy McGrath's God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED by Steve Cummings

25. The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED

By: Steve Cummings

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing au… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cummings's The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

26. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more

Similar categories in Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • cycling
Cover of The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption by Matt Rendell

27. The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption

By: Matt Rendell

3.62

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro V… read more

Similar categories in Matt Rendell's The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • cycling
Cover of At Speed by Mark Cavendish

28. At Speed

By: Mark Cavendish

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mark Cavendish is quite simply the biggest thing in cycling and the biggest thing in British sport.… read more

Similar categories in Mark Cavendish's At Speed book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of My World by Peter Sagan

29. My World

By: Peter Sagan

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly he won three road race World Championships in… read more

Similar categories in Peter Sagan's My World book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel de Visé

30. The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France

By: Daniel de Visé

4.36

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

“Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
Cover of Magic Spanner by Carlton Kirby

31. Magic Spanner

By: Carlton Kirby

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Mr Cycling, Eurosport commentator Carlton Kirby, offers an expert, behind-the-scenes view of the wo… read more

Similar categories in Carlton Kirby's Magic Spanner book and Jonathan Vaughters's One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling

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Reed Albergotti , Vanessa O'Connell

4.05

Transform Your Habits

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Richard Moore

2.74

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4.16

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4.17

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3.69

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4.33

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Elise Downing

4.03

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Anna McNuff

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