17 must-read nonfiction books like Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills

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Best Foot Forward

By: Adam Hills

4.19

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Adam Hills was a quiet primary school kid with a prosthetic foot, who did all his homework and only…

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1. Spectacles

By: Sue Perkins

4.02

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

8h 44m When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. W… read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's Spectacles book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from ch…"

-Sue Perkins, Spectacles

2. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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3. Life & Laughing: My Story

By: Michael McIntyre

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Michael McIntyre has become Britain's biggest comedy star. His debut stand-up DVD was the fastest s… read more

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4. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • australia
  • audiobook
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5. A Funny Life

By: Michael McIntyre

4.20

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his… read more

Similar categories in Michael McIntyre's A Funny Life book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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6. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Time of My Life

By: Myf Warhurst

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

From the much-loved Myf Warhurst comes a captivating and joyous memoir of wisdom, humour and heart … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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9. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

Similar categories in Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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10. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

Similar categories in Ash Barty's My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

By: Billy Connolly

4.19

Format: 261 pages, ebook

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the k…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

"But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

"inevitably I think sometimes about my death, but those thoughts go away as quickly as they come. I tend not to dwell on them. Somebody asked me if I wanted to join a suicide society. It’s some organi…"

-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

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12. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Toksvig's Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

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13. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. The Fireground

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.65

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Flynn was only a teenager when her parents were killed in a terrible accident. Too young to lose he… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's The Fireground book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable this is no… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan

17. 488 Rules for Life

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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18. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Best Foot Forward by Adam  Hills

19. Best Foot Forward

By: Adam Hills

4.19

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Adam Hills was a quiet primary school kid with a prosthetic foot, who did all his homework and only… read more

Similar categories in Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • comedy
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies by Kitty Flanagan

20. Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

By: Kitty Flanagan

3.98

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I am almost ashamed to admit how much I love getting a laugh-for me, it is still the ultimate high. Admittedly, I don't take a lot of drugs."

-Kitty Flanagan, Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

Cover of Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places by Fiona O'Loughlin

21. Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places

By: Fiona O'Loughlin

4.16

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir from one of Australia's most loved comedians shows us that… read more

Similar categories in Fiona O'Loughlin's Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places book and Adam Hills's Best Foot Forward

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 Top audiobook books like Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills

Transform Your Habits

Spectacles

Sue Perkins

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Transform Your Habits

A Funny Life

Michael McIntyre

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

4.08

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7 Best adult books like Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

Emma Espiner

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

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