10 Top biography books like Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir by Mark Critch

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Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

By: Mark Critch

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and outrageously funny memoir about Newfoundland, family, and being the weirdest kid in…

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1. Rare Birds

By: Edward Riche

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Now a Major Motion Picture from Lions Gate Films, Starring William Hurt, Molly Parker and Andy Jone… read more

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  • humor
  • canada
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2. Where I Belong

By: Alan Doyle

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a lyrical and captivating musical memoir about… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Caught

By: Lisa Moore

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

Caughtbegins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of mariju… read more

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  • canada

4. Mary, Mary

By: Lesley Crewe

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as… read more

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5. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada

By: Greg Malone

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland… read more

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6. A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home

By: None

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man … read more

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7. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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9. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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10. Rick Mercer Final Report

By: Rick Mercer

4.09

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. The Good Women of Safe Harbour

By: Bobbi French

4.39

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more

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  • book club
  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood

By: Wayne Johnston

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling n… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

By: Wayne Johnston

3.95

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portra… read more

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  • book club
  • canada
"You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics."

-Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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15. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

  • canada
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16. One for the Rock (Sebastian Synard Mysteries #1)

By: Kevin Major

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of to… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • humor
  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. New Girl in Little Cove

By: Damhnait Monaghan

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

After the local French teacher scandalizes the fishing village of Little Cove, Newfoundland, by run… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. The Woman in the Attic

By: Emily Hepditch

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total iso… read more

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  • book club
  • canada
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20. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

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  • canada
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21. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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22. Huge

By: Brent Butt

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nomi… read more

Similar categories in Brent Butt's Huge book and Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

  • humor
  • comedy
  • canada
  • audiobook
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23. If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

By: Jann Arden

4.04

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you …"

-Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

Cover of Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist by Donna Morrissey

24. Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

By: Donna Morrissey

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWAR… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Pride goes before common sense."

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"Our tales do more than dismantle social standings and generate camaraderie and entertainment. They create a space for one's past, touching its flesh through memory and shedding a light that illuminat…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"...friends can be the caregivers of our hearts. They fill the empty chambers and warm them with cheer. They revive the spirit through hope and transform pain into learning and learning into laughter.…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

"She laughed. 'Ahh, Donna, luv, I've missed you.' She leaned forward. 'And you've no need to race anywhere; you've already won the biggest of all races--' 'What race? Aside from that screenplay compet…"

-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist

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25. Off the Record

By: Peter Mansbridge

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

By: Mark Critch

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and outrageously funny memoir about Newfoundland, family, and being the weirdest kid in… read more

Similar categories in Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir book and Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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27. All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times

By: Alan Doyle

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Mystery in the Title (Miranda Abbott Mystery, #2)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.39

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder comes a sidesplitting mystery of epic movie-of-t… read more

Similar categories in Ian Ferguson's Mystery in the Title (Miranda Abbott Mystery, #2) book and Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

  • audiobook
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29. Albatross

By: Terry Fallis

3.70

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new… read more

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  • humor
  • canada
  • audiobook
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30. Three for Trinity (Sebastian Synard, #3)

By: Kevin Major

3.68

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When Sebastian goes undercover in the theatre to find a killer, things get… dramatic. In Three f… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Murphy's Logic: Insights from 45 Years in the News Business by Steve Murphy

31. Murphy's Logic: Insights from 45 Years in the News Business

By: Steve Murphy

4.03

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Former anchor of CTV News at Six Steve Murphy offers lessons learned and opinions garnered on the c… read more

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Alan Doyle

4.31

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The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

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Michael Crummey

3.85

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

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