22 must-read biography books like Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon by Marc Eliot

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Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

By: Marc Eliot

4.14

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

This is the first and definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends …

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1. Shattered Love: A Memoir

By: Richard Chamberlain

3.47

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

One of the most beloved actors of our time shares the New York Times bestselling story of how he le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Hope: Entertainer of the Century

By: Richard Zoglin

3.89

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. 'Tis Herself

By: Maureen O'Hara

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You are about to read the tale of the toughest Irish lass who ever took on Hollywood and became a m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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5. A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets

By: James Bowen , Tine Verbič

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

The moving, uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the gin… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Grace

By: Robert Lacey

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world's most renowned biographers, a revealing and poignant portrait of the fabled … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

7. Hawaii

By: James A. Michener

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii's epic history vividly to life in a c… read more

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8. Ann-Margret: My Story

By: Todd Gold , Ann-Margret

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this unforgettable account of a woman making her own way and finding her own voice, both as a le… read more

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9. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

By: Kitty Kelley

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusiv… read more

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10. John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By: Scott Eyman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more

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11. A Life in Parts

By: Bryan Cranston

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir--both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creat… read more

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12. Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party

By: Shawn Levy

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a … read more

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13. Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band

By: Eric Lefcowitz

4.40

Format: 86 pages,

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14. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

By: Carol Burnett

3.00

Format: 24 pages,

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variet… read more

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15. Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.22

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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17. You Never Know: A Memoir

By: Tom Selleck

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more

Similar categories in Tom Selleck's You Never Know: A Memoir book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.16

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti

19. Sex Object: A Memoir

By: Jessica Valenti

3.66

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."

-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

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20. Robin

By: Dave Itzkoff

4.11

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a c… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. In Pieces

By: Sally Field

3.94

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

10 hours, 41 minutes One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sall… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend by Michael Munn

22. Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend

By: Michael Munn

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman

23. Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

By: Scott Eyman

3.86

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the defi… read more

Similar categories in Scott Eyman's Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

24. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By: Maxwell King

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Good people aren't always good. They just try to be."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"You don't set out to be rich and famous; you set out to be helpful."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Human kindness was probably the single most important thing to Fred Rogers."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Everyone...came to deeply appreciate Fred-Time, that slow-paced world of quiet with Rogers at its center."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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25. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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26. You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

By: Kat Timpf

3.80

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 4… read more

Similar categories in Kat Timpf's You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The Bottom Line: When you say that words are violence, you inherently are saying that violence is an acceptable response to words, because violence is universally considered an acceptable response to…"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

"A better standard would be intention. If someone says something that offends us - but their intentions was humor - than we should respond far differently to that than we would if the person intended …"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

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27. The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet

By: Olivia Hussey

4.05

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The 1960s starlet, immortalized on the silver screen as Juliet, tells her story in this celebrity b… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Hussey's The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon by Marc Eliot

28. Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

By: Marc Eliot

4.14

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

This is the first and definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends … read more

Similar categories in Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • theatre
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • audiobook
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29. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

By: William J. Mann

4.09

Format: 736 pages, ebook

Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

30. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Marc Eliot's Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

31. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.14

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Tom Selleck

4.05

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Kate Andersen Brower

4.16

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4.43

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Jesse Watters

3.90

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