12 must-read autobiography books like East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia by Sue Perkins

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East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

By: Sue Perkins

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from …

"Your heart keeps its own clock. It doesn’t care for hours and minutes; the fake lines of measurement, which the outside life uses to calculate success, age or achievement."

-Sue Perkins, East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

"Your heart keeps its own clock. It doesn’t care for hours and minutes; the fake lines of measurement, which the outside life uses to calculate success, age or achievement."

-Sue Perkins, East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

If you liked the autobiography plot in East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia by Sue Perkins , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders

1. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

By: Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I shoul… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saunders's Bonkers: My Life in Laughs book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

2. The Fry Chronicles

By: Stephen Fry

3.84

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fa… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Mow the fuckers down."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

3. Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple, #6)

By: Carola Dunn

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Daisy Dalrymple visits relatives with fiance DCI Alec Fletcher, and covers the 1923 Henley Royal Re… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple, #6) book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

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4. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life by Josh Widdicombe

6. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

Similar categories in Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

Similar categories in Henry Dimbleby's Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Quite

By: Claudia Winkleman

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Funny, moving and truthful… Quite Claudia Winkleman’s warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude a… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Winkleman's Quite book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by David   Mitchell

9. Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By

By: David Mitchell

3.68

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Stolen Hours (The Wild Isle Series #2)

By: Karen Swan

4.18

Format: 385 pages, ebook

A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 … read more

Similar categories in Karen Swan's The Stolen Hours (The Wild Isle Series #2) book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • audiobook
Cover of Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig

11. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Toksvig's Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

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12. An Endless Cornish Summer

By: Phillipa Ashley

4.10

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Escape to the seaside with this gorgeous new series from the Sunday Times bestselling author – perf… read more

Similar categories in Phillipa Ashley's An Endless Cornish Summer book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • audiobook
Cover of Bigger Than Us: The Power of Finding Meaning in a Messy World by Fearne Cotton

13. Bigger Than Us: The Power of Finding Meaning in a Messy World

By: Fearne Cotton

4.03

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Calm anxiety through connection. Find happiness through purpose. Feel comfort in the universal. Thi… read more

Similar categories in Fearne Cotton's Bigger Than Us: The Power of Finding Meaning in a Messy World book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. North Korea Journal

By: Michael Palin

3.85

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's North Korea Journal book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • asia
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"

-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal

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15. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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16. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

By: Monisha Rajesh

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more

Similar categories in Monisha Rajesh's Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult by Romesh Ranganathan

17. As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable this is no… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Into Iraq by Michael Palin

18. Into Iraq

By: Michael Palin

4.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense o… read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Into Iraq book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • asia
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. My Lies, Your Lies

By: Susan Lewis

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Diane Chamberlain, and Jodi Picoult comes another gripping novel from i… read more

Similar categories in Susan Lewis's My Lies, Your Lies book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • audiobook
Cover of Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life by Jay Blades

20. Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

By: Jay Blades

4.48

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times bestseller by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. Ma… read more

Similar categories in Jay Blades's Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Picture Bride by Lee Geum-yi

21. The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Your husband is a landowner,” they told her. “Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on tr… read more

Similar categories in Lee Geum-yi's The Picture Bride book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • asia
  • audiobook
Cover of Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel

22. Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

By: Julie Bindel

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of fem… read more

Similar categories in Julie Bindel's Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • nonfiction
Cover of East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia by Sue  Perkins

23. East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

By: Sue Perkins

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from … read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • asia
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • india
  • audiobook
"Your heart keeps its own clock. It doesn’t care for hours and minutes; the fake lines of measurement, which the outside life uses to calculate success, age or achievement."

-Sue Perkins, East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

Cover of We Can All Make It by Sara Davies

24. We Can All Make It

By: Sara Davies

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Determined, focused and full of heart - this book encapsulates all that … read more

Similar categories in Sara Davies's We Can All Make It book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness by Ben Fogle

25. Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness

By: Ben Fogle

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about… read more

Similar categories in Ben Fogle's Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Feel Better In 5: Your Daily Plan to Feel Great for Life by Rangan Chatterjee

26. Feel Better In 5: Your Daily Plan to Feel Great for Life

By: Rangan Chatterjee

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'One of the most influential doctors in the country' Chris Evans_______It only takes 5 minutes to s… read more

Similar categories in Rangan Chatterjee's Feel Better In 5: Your Daily Plan to Feel Great for Life book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

27. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • audiobook
Cover of What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie

28. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's What a Way to Go book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • humor
  • audiobook
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

29. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire by David Veevers

30. The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire

By: David Veevers

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a gl… read more

Similar categories in David Veevers's The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire book and Sue Perkins's East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia

  • india
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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Stephen Fry

3.84

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The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

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Rosamund Young

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

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Bob Mortimer

4.02

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Melanie Brown

4.06

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