27 must-read nonfiction books like Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry

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Rising to the Surface

By: Lenny Henry

3.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Stalin Ate My Homework

By: Alexei Sayle

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander … read more

Similar categories in Alexei Sayle's Stalin Ate My Homework book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

By: Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I shoul… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saunders's Bonkers: My Life in Laughs book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

3. Death of a Witch (Hamish Macbeth, #24)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.41

Format: 549 pages,

Scottish policeman tall Hamish Macbeth gets repeated forebodings. Newcomer alluring Catriona Beldam… read more

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  • audiobook

4. Back Story

By: David Mitchell

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mi… read more

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5. A Tiny Bit Marvellous

By: Dawn French

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is a poignant novel by Dawn French which is told through the eyes of a mother and her two teen… read more

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6. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

By: Billy Connolly

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more

Similar categories in Billy Connolly's Rambling Man: My Life on the Road book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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9. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

Similar categories in Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. You’ve Got To Laugh

By: Alison Hammond

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alison Hammond loves to laugh. And the nation laughs with her. Her sunny personality and zest for l… read more

Similar categories in Alison Hammond's You’ve Got To Laugh book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

Similar categories in Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

Similar categories in Boy George's Karma: My Autobiography book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

By: Melanie Chisholm

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate memoir from international pop star Melanie Chisholm--better known as Mel C. or Sporty S… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Chisholm's The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Why would we want to date stupid controlling men when we could be having a far better time with our mates?"

-Melanie Chisholm, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

"You’re not stupid if you don’t know something; you’re stupid if you don’t find out what it means, because you’ve missed an opportunity to learn something."

-Melanie Chisholm, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

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14. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Theroux the Keyhole

By: Louis Theroux

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more

Similar categories in Louis Theroux's Theroux the Keyhole book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
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16. Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

By: Billy Connolly

4.19

Format: 261 pages, ebook

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions … read more

Similar categories in Billy Connolly's Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the k…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

"But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

"inevitably I think sometimes about my death, but those thoughts go away as quickly as they come. I tend not to dwell on them. Somebody asked me if I wanted to join a suicide society. It’s some organi…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

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17. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kay's T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
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18. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

Similar categories in Davina McCall's Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Odd Boy Out

By: Gyles Brandreth

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more

Similar categories in Gyles Brandreth's Odd Boy Out book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • 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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21. Rising to the Surface

By: Lenny Henry

3.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps by Kate Bottley

22. Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps

By: Kate Bottley

4.24

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

'Thank God for Kate and this book' Dawn French 'Kate's natural warmth, wit and wisdom shines thro… read more

Similar categories in Kate Bottley's Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • nonfiction
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23. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Maconie's The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend by Martin    O'Neill

24. On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend

By: Martin O'Neill

4.12

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin O’Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football – winning European Cups, capt… read more

Similar categories in Martin O'Neill's On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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25. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

By: Sue Barker

4.17

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

The instant Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Autobiography of the Year at the British Spo… read more

Similar categories in Sue Barker's Calling the Shots: My Autobiography book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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27. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews

By: Sam McAlister

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more

Similar categories in Sam McAlister's Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru

By: Hugh Bonneville

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one o… read more

Similar categories in Hugh Bonneville's Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more

Similar categories in David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Parenting Hell

By: Rob Beckett

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more

Similar categories in Rob Beckett's Parenting Hell book and Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Death of a Witch (Hamish Macbeth, #24)

M.C. Beaton

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

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Bernie Taupin

3.58

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Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Mary Gabriel

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