13 Top biography books like Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach

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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

By: Eliese Colette Goldbach

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she un…

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1. The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

By: Robert J. Samuelson

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award-winning columnist Robert J. Samu… read more

Similar categories in Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic

By: James Renner

3.68

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

In the fall of 1989, ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic disappeared from the cozy Cleveland suburb of Bay … read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. 24 Hours at Agincourt

By: Michael Jones

3.91

Format: 20 pages, Hardcover

A definitive account of the iconic battle, uniquely structured over 24 hours of a single shocking d… read more

Similar categories in Michael Jones's 24 Hours at Agincourt book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • nonfiction
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4. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

Similar categories in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead (Gilead, #1) book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • audiobook
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

5. Baker Towers

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's pa… read more

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6. Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

By: Vaclav Smil

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In "Made in the USA," Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of pre… read more

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7. How to Be an American Housewife

By: Margaret Dilloway

4.36

Format: 94 pages,

How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. I… read more

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8. Black Mass

By: Dick Lehr , Gerard O'Neill

3.17

Format: None pages,

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9. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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11. Dolls of Our Lives

By: Mary Mahoney

3.53

Format: None pages, None

For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more

Similar categories in Mary Mahoney's Dolls of Our Lives book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Hadley Freeman's Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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13. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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17. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Chambers's Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

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18. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché

21. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

By: Carolyn Forché

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire What You Have… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Forché's What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but wi…"

-Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

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22. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

By: Eliese Colette Goldbach

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she un… read more

Similar categories in Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America by David Giffels

23. Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

By: David Giffels

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

**Finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Award** An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohi… read more

Similar categories in David Giffels's Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

3.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more

Similar categories in Shane McCrae's Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"

-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

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25. Black Bottom Saints

By: Alice Randall

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecc… read more

Similar categories in Alice Randall's Black Bottom Saints book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more

Similar categories in Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass

By: Dale Maharidge

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Looks at America's homeless and poor and tells the stories of farm workers, illegal aliens, and the… read more

Similar categories in Dale Maharidge's Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (Heritage) by Steven High

28. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (Heritage)

By: Steven High

3.36

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging in… read more

Similar categories in Steven High's Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (Heritage) book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • history
Cover of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Tracy Neumann

29. Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America (American Business, Politics, and Society)

By: Tracy Neumann

3.63

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth c… read more

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30. We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963

By: Shelia P. Moses

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pul… read more

Similar categories in Shelia P. Moses's We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • audiobook
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31. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

By: Carlos Lozada

4.00

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Pos… read more

Similar categories in Carlos Lozada's What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era book and Eliese Colette Goldbach's Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Trump is the sun around which all forms of conservatism now revolve, along orbits of submission, derision, and revision. And yet the Trump era’s most illuminating case for conservatism is one that ba…"

-Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

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3.68

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