7 Top biography books like A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper

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A Most Beautiful Thing

By: Arshay Cooper

4.35

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first …

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Cover of Carry On: Two Young Men, a Journalist Who Wouldn't Walk Away, and the Creation of an Unlikely Family by Lisa Fenn

1. Carry On: Two Young Men, a Journalist Who Wouldn't Walk Away, and the Creation of an Unlikely Family

By: Lisa Fenn

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Blind Sideand Friday Night Lightscomes a tender and profoundly moving memoir a… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fenn's Carry On: Two Young Men, a Journalist Who Wouldn't Walk Away, and the Creation of an Unlikely Family book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water by David Halberstam, Daniel J. Boyne, Daniel  J. Boyne

2. The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water

By: David Halberstam , Daniel J. Boyne , Daniel J. Boyne

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexu… read more

Similar categories in David Halberstam's The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • history
  • sports
  • biography
  • nonfiction

3. Flat Water Tuesday

By: Ron Irwin

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

When documentary filmmaker Rob Carrey flies back to New York from a shoot in South Africa to salvag… read more

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4. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

Similar categories in Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

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5. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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6. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • audiobook
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7. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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8. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • race
  • african american
  • audiobook
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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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11. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

By: Kao Kalia Yang

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more

Similar categories in Kao Kalia Yang's Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Doorman Wanted

By: Glenn R. Miller

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, th… read more

Similar categories in Glenn R. Miller's Doorman Wanted book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • audiobook
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13. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper

14. A Most Beautiful Thing

By: Arshay Cooper

4.35

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first … read more

Similar categories in Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • sports
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head—and How to Get It Out by Kara Loewentheil

15. Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head—and How to Get It Out

By: Kara Loewentheil

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold new paradigm for breaking free from negative self-talk and creating a life of confidence, po… read more

Similar categories in Kara Loewentheil's Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head—and How to Get It Out book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • nonfiction
Cover of Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland

16. Waiting for the Monsoon

By: Rod Nordland

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air, the New York Times's legendary war correspondent deli… read more

Similar categories in Rod Nordland's Waiting for the Monsoon book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

17. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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18. Jupiter Rising

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.59

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption

By: Daniel J. Boyne

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Harvard University coach and acclaimed rowing author, Dan Boyne, tells a humorous story of his firs… read more

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Cover of Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon

20. Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Where They Last Saw Her book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • audiobook
Cover of Small Puddles: The Triumphant Story of Yale's Worst Oarsman. Ever. by Michael P. Danziger

21. Small Puddles: The Triumphant Story of Yale's Worst Oarsman. Ever.

By: Michael P. Danziger

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael “Zig” Danziger projects a certain devil-may-care persona. But don’t let the larger-than-lif… read more

Similar categories in Michael P. Danziger's Small Puddles: The Triumphant Story of Yale's Worst Oarsman. Ever. book and Arshay Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing

  • nonfiction

13 must-read audiobook books like A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

Emmeline Clein

3.86

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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