6 best-selling biography books like Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen

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Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y…

"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with - none so much as you."

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with - none so much as you."

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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1. Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By: Hollie McNish

4.42

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish. There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't k… read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. Plum

By: Hollie McNish

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her compel… read more

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3. 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 Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • contemporary
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4. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's Shy book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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5. Children of Paradise

By: Camilla Grudova

3.49

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's Children of Paradise book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • contemporary
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6. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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7. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • contemporary
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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8. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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9. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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10. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • contemporary
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11. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

Similar categories in John Niven's O Brother book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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12. Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more

Similar categories in Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • contemporary
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Slug

By: Hollie McNish

4.51

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Slug book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

By: Hollie McNish

4.43

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • nonfiction
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15. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • nonfiction
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16. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • contemporary
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17. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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19. Glasgow Boys

By: Margaret McDonald

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • contemporary
  • scotland
  • lgbt
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20. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online

By: Harriet Gibsone

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Gibsone's Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online book and Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Peach Pig

By: Cecilia Knapp

4.10

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

' Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST In her devastatingly powerful debut c… read more

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Shy

Max Porter

3.63

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Camilla Grudova

3.49

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Miranda July

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