8 Best biography memoir books like No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson

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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

By: Mark Hodkinson

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and …

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1. A Kestrel for a Knave

By: Barry Hines

3.60

Format: 253 pages,

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more

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2. This Boy

By: Alan Johnson

3.17

Format: None pages, ebook

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was desti… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • contemporary
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4. 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

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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5. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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6. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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  • contemporary
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7. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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8. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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9. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • audiobook
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10. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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13. 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

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  • 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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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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16. The God Desire

By: David Baddiel

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

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17. The Collapsing Wave: The epic, awe-inspiring new novel from the author of BBC 2’s Between the Covers pick THE SPACE BETWEEN US (The Enceladons Trilogy)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.37

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation that co… read more

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18. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

By: Emily Maitlis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

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  • contemporary
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20. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

By: Mark Hodkinson

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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22. Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside

By: Ronald Blythe

4.13

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By: Amelia Gentleman

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation, and led to the resignation of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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24. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. The Gift of a Radio

By: Justin Webb

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological pro… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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26. Unforgettable: Winner of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year Award

By: Steve Thompson

4.19

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'm in my early forties. There are days when I don't remember the names of my wife and four kids .… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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27. Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; … read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • contemporary
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29. The Fecking Fabulous Forties Club

By: Freya Kennedy

4.10

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Becca Burnside isn’t sure where it all went wrong. How did she end up single in her forties, with t… read more

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30. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • audiobook
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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31. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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Barbara Pym

3.90

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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3.81

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