13 best-selling biography books like Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

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Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim…

If you liked the biography plot in Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Michael Phelps: Beneath The Surface by Michael Phelps

1. Michael Phelps: Beneath The Surface

By: Michael Phelps

3.95

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Eight medals, including six gold and two bronze. Michael Phelps used the Olympic Games in Athens as… read more

Similar categories in Michael Phelps's Michael Phelps: Beneath The Surface book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"In some sports, you can just get by on a lot of natural talent. In swimming, it helps to be long and lean, but you can’t be good at it without putting in the work. There is a direct connection betwee…"

-Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps: Beneath The Surface

2. Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance

By: Michelle Burford , Mary Lou Retton , None

3.83

Format: None pages,

Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Burford's Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

3. Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion

By: None , None

4.09

Format: None pages,

What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. … read more

Similar categories in None's Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

4. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

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5. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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6. Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind

By: Riley Gaines

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports from woke destruction shares h… read more

Similar categories in Riley Gaines's Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

7. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out by Gracie Gold

8. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

By: Gracie Gold

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more

Similar categories in Gracie Gold's Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

9. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

Similar categories in Jen Psaki's Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

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10. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker

12. Life's Too Short: A Memoir

By: Darius Rucker

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award–winning, Diamond-selling le… read more

Similar categories in Darius Rucker's Life's Too Short: A Memoir book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond by Maggie  Nichols

13. Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond

By: Maggie Nichols

3.91

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Maggie Nichols’s official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under th… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nichols's Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

14. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • adult
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith by Sydney McLaughlin

15. Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith

By: Sydney McLaughlin

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympi… read more

Similar categories in Sydney McLaughlin's Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

16. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

17. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

18. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

19. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Silver Lining by Elizabeth Beisel

20. Silver Lining

By: Elizabeth Beisel

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Elizabeth Beisel, a three-time Olympic swimmer, two-time Olympic medalist, and Olympic Team captain… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Beisel's Silver Lining book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

21. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Bishop's The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir book and Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

10 best-selling adult books like Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

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The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

Steven Rowley

3.98

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Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

4.06

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

Transform Your Habits

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

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Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold

4.10

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