5 Best biography books like The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories by James Herriot

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The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

By: James Herriot

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

James Herriot's timeless, heartwarming, and perceptive stories about animals and people have charme…

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1. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation

By: Elizabeth Letts

3.95

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER November 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New… read more

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2. The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father

By: Jim Wight

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

With full access to his father's papers, correspondence, manuscripts, and photos, Wight has created… read more

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3. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • 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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4. The Porcelain Maker

By: Sarah Freethy

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Murder by Degrees

By: Ritu Mukerji

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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7. Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers

By: Marta McDowell

3.51

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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8. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Close Knit

By: Jenny Colgan

3.98

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more

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10. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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12. The Busy Body

By: Kemper Donovan

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about pe… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. The Amish Matchmakers (Amish Inn)

By: Beth Wiseman

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This Amish matchmaker is an expert at finding love for others, but will she find it for herself? Wi… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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15. Jovita Wore Pants

By: Aida Salazar

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Scholastic/Levine has acquired Aida Salazar's debut picture book, Jovita Wore Pants, the story of J… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

By: Keith O'Brien

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air ra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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17. The Last Twelve Miles

By: Erika Robuck

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more

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  • audiobook
"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"

-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles

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18. The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

By: James Herriot

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

James Herriot's timeless, heartwarming, and perceptive stories about animals and people have charme… read more

Similar categories in James Herriot's The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories book and James Herriot's The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A Charming Collection of Classic Stories

  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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20. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5)

By: Nita Prose

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve this holiday when a Secret Santa gift exchange rais… read more

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  • short stories

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4.08

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