6 must-read history books like Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman

Cover of Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman

Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

By: David Wolman

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who …

If you liked the history plot in Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Weir

By: Ruth Moore

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Weir, written in 1943, takes place in a small island fishing village during the years before Wo… read more

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2. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

By: Jon Krakauer

3.72

Format: 77 pages, ebook

Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, an… read more

Similar categories in Jon Krakauer's Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way book and David Wolman's Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Snow White and Rose Red

By: Jacob Grimm

3.74

Format: 9 pages, Kindle Edition

Snow-White and Rose-Red is a traditional German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one colle… read more

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Cover of Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by Peter Heller

4. Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

By: Peter Heller

3.81

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors re… read more

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  • biography
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to clearing a space where love can happen."

-Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

"Sometimes I catch myself being a person I wouldn't tolerate for five minutes at my own kitchen table. Being a thoughtless, self-centered jerk."

-Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

Cover of What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life by Jane Scovell, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett

5. What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life

By: Jane Scovell , Tim Conway , Carol Burnett

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Six-time Emmy award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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6. Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease

By: Michele Bender , Yolanda Hadid

3.79

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Promised to the Crown

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 148 pages,

In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the… read more

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  • historical

8. Poisoned Blade (Court of Fives, #2)

By: Kate Elliott

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives--the complex athletic contest favored by the lowliest C… read more

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9. Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives #1)

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages,

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10. Nightbird

By: Alice Hoffman

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumor… read more

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11. The Militia House

By: John Milas

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly origi… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The 7th Passenger

By: Andrew Cunningham

4.43

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1966, The Wonder Boys, one of America’s top rock bands, embarked on a flight from Anchorage to F… read more

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14. The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

By: Josh Ritter

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age dur… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"The human heart can hold almost exactly one cup of hot tea. Did you know that? It holds roughly the same amount of milk, of course, and can accommodate sixty minnows if one has a mind to catch and pa…"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"People who tell you they're disappointed in you are full of the worst kind of shit and you can always ignore them. The stuff they say only means that you're doing what you want to do, not what they w…"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"I know how memory works. I know what happens to it. Some people pine for the past so bad that if you give them even a glimpse of an ear they'll grab hold of it and hang on, telling you stories about …"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"God doesn't build shit. Yeah, He creates stuff - the World, the mountain ranges, all that - but any fuck with one eye left in his head will tell you that He doesn't spend much time fixing up all His …"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

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15. Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952

By: Cathie Pelletier

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human enduranc… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop Shot (The Fighting Detective, #5) by Blair Denholm

16. Drop Shot (The Fighting Detective, #5)

By: Blair Denholm

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Game. Set. Murder. Temperamental tennis player Roderick McAdam stands on the threshold of claimi… read more

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Cover of Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging by Cynthia Thurlow

17. Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging

By: Cynthia Thurlow

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Discover the customized nutrition plan that will help you be lean, fit, more youthful, sexier, and … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Thurlow's Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging book and David Wolman's Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

18. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Chris McGreal

4.15

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more

Similar categories in Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts book and David Wolman's Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés

19. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

By: José Andrés

3.87

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no recovery to manage, and no citizens to govern, if we cannot get water and food to the people."

-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

"Too often charity is about the redemption of the giver, not the liberation of the receiver. (Said to José Andrés by Robert Eggers)"

-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

"As I looked up to the stars, I began to cry. I thought the one star that was missing was the Puerto Rican star on the American flag."

-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

"We needed leadership to feed the people of Puerto Rico, but we had a leader who was more interested in patting himself on the back than the difficult work of disaster recovery."

-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

Cover of Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman

20. Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

By: David Wolman

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who … read more

Similar categories in David Wolman's Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West book and David Wolman's Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • westerns
  • historical
  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

21. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

By: Mark Whitaker

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“ Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other black renaissance and spend time with … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman

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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

Jon Krakauer

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

Peter Heller

3.81

Transform Your Habits

What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life

Jane Scovell , Tim Conway , Carol Burnett

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Militia House

John Milas

3.60

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23 Best audiobook books like Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

3.78

Transform Your Habits

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

Thomas Cahill

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

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