7 Best autobiography books like Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade

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Ayoade On Top

By: Richard Ayoade

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T…

"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

If you liked the autobiography plot in Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

By: David Mitchell

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"What women want is still what it's always been: either you or, more likely, not you."

-David Mitchell, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

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2. Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story

By: Charlie McDowell

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman a clef about how thinking lik… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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3. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

By: James Acaster

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five timesand has appeared on prime… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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4. Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )

By: Terry Pratchett

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

Authorised by Mr Lipwig of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway himself, Mrs Georgina B… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook

5. 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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6. How Not To Be a Boy

By: Robert Webb

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But … read more

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7. Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies

By: Nick Frost

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

'If I'm going to tell the story of a life, my life, then I need to tell it warts and all. If the ta… read more

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8. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

By: Richard Hofstadter

4.12

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a b… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments."

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to ha…"

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick…"

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

9. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

By: Steve Coogan , Armando Iannucci , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Book by Partridge, Alan. Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder:… read more

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10. Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice

By: None

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Toast on Toastis the must-have book for all budding actors--and non-actors too. In this part memoir… read more

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11. 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

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  • biography
  • 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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12. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

3.85

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, un… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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14. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is help… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, t…"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

"Even without a profile, searching your name on twitter is extremely common, especially if you're a celebrity, as I am and will be until the day I die. I shamefully admit that after quitting twitter, …"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

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15. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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16. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

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17. This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

By: Marc Fennell

3.32

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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19. Ayoade On Top

By: Richard Ayoade

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

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20. Nailing It

By: Rich Hall

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEY A c… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. Illustrators' Sketchbooks: Inside the Creative Processes of 60 Iconic and Emerging Artists

By: Martin Salisbury

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Explore the creative process with iconic and emerging illustrators through selections from their sk… read more

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  • nonfiction

13 must-read audiobook books like Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade

Transform Your Habits

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

David Mitchell

3.45

Transform Your Habits

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

James Acaster

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )

Terry Pratchett

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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20 must-read audiobook books like This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell by Marc Fennell

Yellow Face

Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Maybe This Time

Cara Bastone

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Wasn't There

Arvind Ethan David

3.12

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