9 best-selling biography books like My Life by David Lange

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My Life

By: David Lange

3.65

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

'The problem with recording one's life is not that there is so much that escapes the memory, but th…

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1. Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment

By: Nicky Hager

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Early in 2014 Nicky Hager was leaked a large number of email and online conversations from Cameron … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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3. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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4. Working with David: Inside the Lange Cabinet

By: Michael Bassett

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

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5. John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister

By: John Roughan

3.38

Format: None pages,

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  • politics
  • biography

6. Second Foundation (Foundation #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The … read more

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7. Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

3.85

Format: None pages,

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more

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8. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Zach Kleinman , Pete Carroll

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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10. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

By: Rick Perlstein

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous … read more

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11. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

12. Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more

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13. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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14. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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15. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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16. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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18. 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

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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20. One of Those Mothers

By: Megan Nicol Reed

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more

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21. Unsheltered

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and c… read more

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"Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"Teaching struck Willa as a saintly calling, especially given the pay. But even saints shouldn't be stuck with intro classes forever."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

"First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

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22. After the Tampa

By: Abbas Nazari

4.69

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highl… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. Blue Blood

By: Andrea Vance

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'A political bombshell book' - Sunday Star TimesBeginning with the shock resignation of John Key, B… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. My Life

By: David Lange

3.65

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

'The problem with recording one's life is not that there is so much that escapes the memory, but th… read more

Similar categories in David Lange's My Life book and David Lange's My Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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25. Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years

By: Chris Finlayson

3.60

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the mos… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir

By: Alison Jones

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pākehā. Every Pākehā becomes a Pā… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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27. On the Record

By: Steven Joyce

4.22

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

A candid and comprehensive account from one of National's main powerbrokers during the John Key yea… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. National Identity: Confessions of an outsider

By: Simon Bridges

3.96

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinit… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. Labour Saving: A Memoir

By: Michael Cullen

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and in-depth insight into the extraordinary career of one of our most important polit… read more

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30. He Kupu Taurangi: Treaty Settlements and the Future of Aotearoa New Zealand

By: Chris Finlayson

4.31

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

As Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations from 2008 to 2017, Christopher Finlayson completed … read more

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31. From the Cradle to the Grave: A Biography of Michael Joseph Savage

By: Barry Gustafson

3.83

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

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