13 Best biography books like To Be a Gay Man by Will Young

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To Be a Gay Man

By: Will Young

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Million-selling pop star and co-host of influential podcast ‘Homo Sapiens’, Will Young is calling f…

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1. Spectacles

By: Sue Perkins

4.02

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

8h 44m When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. W… read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's Spectacles book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from ch…"

-Sue Perkins, Spectacles

2. Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens

By: Christian Robinson , None , None

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Teen life is hard enough with all of the pressures kids face, but for teens who are LGBT (lesbian, … read more

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3. The Life and Loves of a He Devil

By: Graham Norton

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Revealing, moving, and hilarious, Graham Norton tells the story of his life through the things he l… read more

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4. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
Cover of Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue by Peter Everett

5. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

Similar categories in Peter Everett's Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Boy Like Me by Simon James Green

7. Boy Like Me

By: Simon James Green

4.55

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's Boy Like Me book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin

8. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

9. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower

10. 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

Similar categories in Kate Andersen Brower's Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

Similar categories in RuPaul's The House of Hidden Meanings book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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12. Theroux the Keyhole

By: Louis Theroux

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more

Similar categories in Louis Theroux's Theroux the Keyhole book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

13. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Cover of Weirdo by Sara  Pascoe

14. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • mental health
Cover of My Brother's Name Is Jessica by John Boyne

15. My Brother's Name Is Jessica

By: John Boyne

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and … read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's My Brother's Name Is Jessica book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent

16. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Moran's What About Men? book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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18. Rising to the Surface

By: Lenny Henry

3.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened on Floor 34? by Caroline Corcoran

19. What Happened on Floor 34?

By: Caroline Corcoran

3.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Her dream job just became her worst nightmare… My name is Rose, and I work for one of the countr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Corcoran's What Happened on Floor 34? book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
Cover of Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything by Keith Brymer Jones

20. Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything

By: Keith Brymer Jones

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a g… read more

Similar categories in Keith Brymer Jones's Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies

21. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

Similar categories in Alan Davies's Just Ignore Him book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

Cover of Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP by Jess Phillips

22. Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP

By: Jess Phillips

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

‘This book is here to take you inside the daily realities of Westminster. I don’t mean that it’s go… read more

Similar categories in Jess Phillips's Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno  Dawson

23. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

Cover of little scratch by Rebecca    Watson

24. little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Watson's little scratch book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • mental health
Cover of Reflections by Holly Willoughby

25. Reflections

By: Holly Willoughby

3.47

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, perceptive book about finding beauty, inside and out Reflections  explores what it me… read more

Similar categories in Holly Willoughby's Reflections book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Coward

By: Jarred McGinnis

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Question: What's worse than being a fuck-up? Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair. After a c… read more

Similar categories in Jarred McGinnis's The Coward book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
Cover of To Be a Gay Man by Will Young

27. To Be a Gay Man

By: Will Young

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Million-selling pop star and co-host of influential podcast ‘Homo Sapiens’, Will Young is calling f… read more

Similar categories in Will Young's To Be a Gay Man book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan

28. Straight Expectations

By: Calum McSwiggan

3.85

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The brilliant debut novel from author, presenter and LGBTQ+ advocate Calum McSwiggan!Seventeen-year… read more

Similar categories in Calum McSwiggan's Straight Expectations book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power by Sasha Swire

29. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Swire's Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power book and Will Young's To Be a Gay Man

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

24 best-selling audiobook books like To Be a Gay Man by Will Young

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Spectacles

Sue Perkins

4.02

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

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The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey

3.78

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

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Taylor Downing

4.27

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