16 best-selling nonfiction books like No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot by Wes Hall

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No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot

By: Wes Hall

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of Canada's most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot by Wes Hall , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning by David Chilton

1. The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning

By: David Chilton

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

"Quite simply the best financial self-help book." --Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club Even i… read more

Similar categories in David Chilton's The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning book and Wes Hall's No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot

  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick      Mercer

2. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of Closer by Sea by Perry Chafe

4. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud

5. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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6. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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7. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. Finding Edward

By: Sheila Murray

4.02

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Cyril Rowntree, a mixed race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfathe… read more

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  • canada
Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

9. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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10. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir by Helen Knott

13. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Cover of The Story of Us by Catherine  Hernandez

14. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

15. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

16. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

17. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

18. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Inheritance by Joanna Goodman

20. The Inheritance

By: Joanna Goodman

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

21. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

22. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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23. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek

24. Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America

By: Sheima Benembarek

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot by Wes Hall

25. No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot

By: Wes Hall

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of Canada's most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

26. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging by Matthew R. Morris

27. Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging

By: Matthew R. Morris

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“ Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation by Robert Joseph

28. Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation

By: Robert Joseph

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Re… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing the Long Game: A Memoir by Christine Sinclair

29. Playing the Long Game: A Memoir

By: Christine Sinclair

3.94

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Chri… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery by Harrison Mooney

30. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery

By: Harrison Mooney

4.35

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go by Kelly S. Thompson

31. Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

By: Kelly S. Thompson

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship … read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

"I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

"We were all just trying to save someone. It was a state of loving, despite instead of loving because."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

8 Top biography books like No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot by Wes Hall

Transform Your Habits

The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

Rick Mercer

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Helen Knott

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

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5 Best adult books like The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

Transform Your Habits

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

John Coston

3.93

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