15 must-read biography books like Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

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Bruce Lee: A Life

By: Matthew Polly

4.39

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The “definitive” ( The New York Times ) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a…

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Cover of The Greatest: My Own Story by Richard Durham, Muhammad Ali

1. The Greatest: My Own Story

By: Richard Durham , Muhammad Ali

4.26

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Current heavyweight boxing champion of the world offers a blow-by-blow commentary on his life, his … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat."

-Richard Durham, The Greatest: My Own Story

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2. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By: Mary V. Dearborn

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman

3. Undisputed Truth

By: Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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4. Concise Art of Seduction

By: Robert Greene

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

Quando nos apaixonamos, caimos numa especie de encantamento. Nossa mente, em geral preocupada com s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

5. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

By: William Dalrymple

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines

2.00

Format: 88 pages,

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110… read more

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7. The Way of the Fight

By: Georges St-Pierre

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Audio

There's more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges… read more

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  • biography
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • martial arts
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8. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

By: Robert Anderson , Ray Kroc

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. Ali: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Timesbest-selling author with unique … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku

10. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

By: Michio Kaku

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New Y… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Bilim şüphesiz ki iki tarafı keskin bir kılıçtır; çözüme ulaştırdığı sayıda problem yaratır, ve yarattığı her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur."

-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

"The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists."

-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

"There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wis…"

-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

"‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence…"

-Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

11. Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit: A Biography

By: Bruce Thomas

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This is the only independent biography of Bruce Lee, and it is complete in terms of both the martia… read more

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12. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recal… read more

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Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

13. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

By: Joanna Robinson

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
  • audiobook
Cover of Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger

15. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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16. Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

By: Shannon Lee

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies―demonstrating how mar… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • martial arts
  • audiobook
"Life is not a competition, it's a cocreation."

-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

"Life is not a competition; it's a cocreation."

-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

"Водата може да тече бързо, може да тече и бавно, но целта й е неизменна, а съдбата сигурна."

-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

"It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked."

-Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Cover of Entrances and Exits by Michael    Richards

17. Entrances and Exits

By: Michael Richards

4.12

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg

18. Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

By: Danny Goldberg

3.94

Format: 304 pages, ebook

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most c… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I keep returning to the last chorus of All Apologies, where Kurt sang: 'In the sun, I feel as one / All in all is all we are.' And to these lines from his journals: 'No true talent is fully organic. …"

-Danny Goldberg, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Cover of Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

19. Bruce Lee: A Life

By: Matthew Polly

4.39

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The “definitive” ( The New York Times ) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • martial arts
  • audiobook
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20. Never Grow Up

By: Jackie Chan

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic pe… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • martial arts
  • audiobook
"I have more Dollars than sense"

-Jackie Chan, Never Grow Up

Cover of The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

21. The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

By: Sam Kean

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hit… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 Top audiobook books like Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

Transform Your Habits

The Greatest: My Own Story

Richard Durham , Muhammad Ali

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

Nick de Semlyen

4.12

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Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Transform Your Habits

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson

4.22

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