8 best-selling chess books like Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade

Cover of Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade

Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

By: Jennifer Shahade

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Queen's Gambit , this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling …

If you liked the chess plot in Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady

1. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

By: Frank Brady

3.94

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers

2. The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

By: Tim Crothers

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of The Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow

3. The Flight of the Eisenstein

By: James Swallow

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Ter… read more

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Cover of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, None, None

4. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

By: Bobby Fischer , None , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a que… read more

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5. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain

By: David Shenk

3.97

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a pr… read more

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6. Fulgrim

By: Graham McNeill

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the Great Crusade, led by … read more

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7. Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking: From the First Move to the Last

By: None

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Grand master and prolific chess author Neil McDonald explains every single move made in 30 striking… read more

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8. How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

By: Garry Kasparov , None

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a wo… read more

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9. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at… read more

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10. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

By: Josh Waitzkin

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his f… read more

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11. Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions

By: None

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport. The arriv… read more

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12. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

By: M.E. Thomas

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more

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13. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond by Levy Rozman

14. How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond

By: Levy Rozman

4.40

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Learn chess from International Master and Youtube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess)… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A.J. Baime

16. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

Cover of All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin

17. All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

By: Sasha Chapin

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again by Brin-Jonathan Butler

18. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again

By: Brin-Jonathan Butler

3.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade

19. Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

By: Jennifer Shahade

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Queen's Gambit , this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Shahade's Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time book and Jennifer Shahade's Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess) by Ben                 Johnson

20. Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess)

By: Ben Johnson

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson

21. The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life

By: Jonathan Rowson

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A chess grandmaster reveals the powerful teachings this ancient game offers for staying present, th… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • chess

6 Best history books like Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade

Transform Your Habits

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

Frank Brady

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

Tim Crothers

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

A.J. Baime

4.55

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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

Sasha Chapin

3.79

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Frank Brady

3.94

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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