5 must-read memoir books like Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt

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Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring

By: Josh Rosenblatt

3.73

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A physical and philosophical m…

If you liked the memoir plot in Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring by Josh Rosenblatt , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s a bit burned,"

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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2. A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

By: Sam Sheridan

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in … read more

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  • memoir
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • martial arts
"Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later"

-Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting

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3. The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more

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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

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4. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great

By: Benjamin R. Merkle

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the En… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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6. The Way of the Fight

By: Georges St-Pierre

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Audio

There's more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • martial arts

7. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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8. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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9. 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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10. Flags Out Front: A Contrarian's Daydream

By: Douglas Wilson

3.50

Format: 306 pages,

"Well, this was it. Caesar had his Rubicon. What did Bible college presidents have? A Rubik's Cube?… read more

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11. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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13. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

By: Bob Drury

4.06

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more

Similar categories in Bob Drury's Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier book and Josh Rosenblatt's Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring

  • nonfiction
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14. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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15. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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16. Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication

By: Oren Jay Sofer

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How to speak and listen more effectively--to communicate mindfully and improve all relationships--b… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter

17. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

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18. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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19. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.94

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom

By: Sam Dogen

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

SPEND YOUR WAY TO FREEDOM LIKE A TRUE FINANCIAL SAMURAI   Sam Dogen, creator of the Financial Samur… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour

21. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Mere Christendom

By: Douglas Wilson

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Evangelical elites tell us that Christian nationalism and theocracy are grave dangers to our Christ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Anyone who conforms to the Westminster Confession of Faith is a Christian Nationalist."

-Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

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23. Ride, Sally, Ride

By: Douglas Wilson

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

It's two decades in the future, and a Christian college student named Ace Hartwick has just destroy… read more

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24. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials, #9)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' TimeIn this enlightening series world-renowned spiritua… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The 32 Principles

By: Rener Gracie

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Overcome any obstacle life throws at you by thinking and responding like a world-class martial arti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • martial arts
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26. Easy Strength

By: Dan John

4.21

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

How To Look Like Tarzan, Play Like Tarzan-And Win Like TarzanHeadline:What It Takes to Stack the St… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits by Ant Middleton

27. The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

By: Ant Middleton

4.14

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

28. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring

By: Josh Rosenblatt

3.73

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A physical and philosophical m… read more

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  • memoir
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • martial arts
Cover of Ecochondriacs: The No-Quarter November Novel by Douglas Wilson

30. Ecochondriacs: The No-Quarter November Novel

By: Douglas Wilson

4.18

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

When climate scientist Dr. Helen Gardner accidentally reads an email from the International Task Fo… read more

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Bill Bryson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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Sam Sheridan

4.03

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Benjamin R. Merkle

4.39

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3.83

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

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Bill Maher

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