7 Best biography books like Playing to Win by Michael Lewis

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Playing to Win

By: Michael Lewis

4.08

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis got involved in his kids’ loca…

If you liked the biography plot in Playing to Win by Michael Lewis , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. What I Believe

By: Bertrand Russell

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal

By: Andy Weir

3.56

Format: 256 pages,

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground a… read more

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3. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

By: Stephen Jay Gould , None

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more

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4. The Dudes Abide: The Coen Brothers and the Making of The Big Lebowski

By: None

4.08

Format: 320 pages,

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5. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

Similar categories in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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6. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pollan's Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

By: Evan Drellich

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more

Similar categories in Evan Drellich's Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman

9. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Bikman's Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education by Malcolm Gladwell

10. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.30

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

11. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

By: Ben S. Bernanke

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more

Similar categories in Ben S. Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down by Mary Pilon

12. Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down

By: Mary Pilon

4.47

Format: None pages, Audiobook

America’s top gymnasts have been show stoppers at the Summer Olympics for decades - the women’s art… read more

Similar categories in Mary Pilon's Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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13. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

By: Peter Boghossian

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your lif… read more

Similar categories in Peter Boghossian's How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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14. The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani

By: Michael Wolff

3.36

Format: 125 pages, Audible Audio

From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury, comes the mesmer… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolff's The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. Oregon

By: Don Winslow

3.43

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news.… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Oregon book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • audiobook
Cover of Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather

16. Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime

By: Dan Rather

4.27

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Tales from the front lines of 60 years of television. Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anch… read more

Similar categories in Dan Rather's Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Ashley vs WWE: The Story of Wrestler Ashley Massaro by Forest Sounds

17. Ashley vs WWE: The Story of Wrestler Ashley Massaro

By: Forest Sounds

3.57

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

Professional wrestler Ashley Massaro died by suicide in 2019. Ashley vs WWE follows events leading … read more

Similar categories in Forest Sounds's Ashley vs WWE: The Story of Wrestler Ashley Massaro book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • biography
Cover of Playing to Win by Michael   Lewis

18. Playing to Win

By: Michael Lewis

4.08

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis got involved in his kids’ loca… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Playing to Win book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • biography
  • memoir
  • finance
  • sports
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • education
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist: The A-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring that Brought Down Tinseltown (Front Page Detectives) by Houston Curtis

19. Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist: The A-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring that Brought Down Tinseltown (Front Page Detectives)

By: Houston Curtis

3.67

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“Right out of the gate, the entire game was designed to empty the pockets of those rich, celeb-lovi… read more

Similar categories in Houston Curtis's Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist: The A-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring that Brought Down Tinseltown (Front Page Detectives) book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Downward Facing Doug by Don Winslow

20. Downward Facing Doug

By: Don Winslow

3.70

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Don Winslow returns to the world of PI Boone Daniels and the Dawn Patrol. Doug is one of the Dawn P… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Downward Facing Doug book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • audiobook
Cover of Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar

21. Madoff: The Final Word

By: Richard Behar

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more

Similar categories in Richard Behar's Madoff: The Final Word book and Michael Lewis's Playing to Win

  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like Playing to Win by Michael Lewis

Transform Your Habits

What I Believe

Bertrand Russell

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

Michael Pollan

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

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16 Top nonfiction books like 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

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