8 Top biography books like Toksvig's Almanac 2021 by Sandi Toksvig

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Toksvig's Almanac 2021

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From the cover: 'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveri…

If you liked the biography plot in Toksvig's Almanac 2021 by Sandi Toksvig , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Spectacles

By: Sue Perkins

4.02

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

8h 44m When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. W… read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's Spectacles book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from ch…"

-Sue Perkins, Spectacles

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2. Human Croquet

By: Kate Atkinson

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBook ReviewNotable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age… read more

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3. The Road Back to Me: Healing and Recovering from Co-Dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self Esteem.

By: Lisa A. Romano

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Healing and Recovering from Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self-Esteem This story is t… read more

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4. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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5. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

By: Susie Dent

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more

Similar categories in Susie Dent's Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • education
  • audiobook
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6. Little Me: My Life from A-Z

By: Matt Lucas

3.97

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and… read more

Similar categories in Matt Lucas's Little Me: My Life from A-Z book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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7. Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By

By: David Mitchell

3.68

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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8. Dreamland

By: Rosa Rankin-Gee

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audiobook

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain tha… read more

Similar categories in Rosa Rankin-Gee's Dreamland book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • audiobook
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9. Toksvig's Almanac 2021

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From the cover: 'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveri… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021 book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • education
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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10. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Moran's What About Men? book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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11. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

By: Otto English

3.76

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more

Similar categories in Otto English's Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. She Must Be Mad

By: Charly Cox

3.58

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine … read more

Similar categories in Charly Cox's She Must Be Mad book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"You are not a girl nor a woman, you are an unwanted potato in a packet, left to half-freeze to close to the back of the fridge."

-Charly Cox, She Must Be Mad

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13. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

By: Greg Jenner

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more

Similar categories in Greg Jenner's Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • history
  • historical
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • audiobook
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14. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Three Fires book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray

15. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Hunter Murray's A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • humor
  • audiobook
Cover of Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life by Emily Katy

16. Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life

By: Emily Katy

4.72

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

'Emily's moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health… read more

Similar categories in Emily Katy's Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. We Germans

By: Alexander Starritt

4.02

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, an… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Starritt's We Germans book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • historical
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18. New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay

By: Caitlin Kunkel

3.97

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

He calls me into his office and closes the door . . . to promote me. He promotes me again and again… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Kunkel's New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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19. The Book of the Year 2019

By: James Harkin

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious an… read more

Similar categories in James Harkin's The Book of the Year 2019 book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer by Soph Galustian

20. No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer

By: Soph Galustian

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experie… read more

Similar categories in Soph Galustian's No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer book and Sandi Toksvig's Toksvig's Almanac 2021

  • nonfiction

14 must-read audiobook books like Toksvig's Almanac 2021 by Sandi Toksvig

Transform Your Habits

Spectacles

Sue Perkins

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

Susie Dent

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Little Me: My Life from A-Z

Matt Lucas

3.97

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The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel

4.08

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Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

Sofie Hagen

4.05

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