6 Best biography books like Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien

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Dad's Maybe Book

By: Tim O'Brien

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Tim O’Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, a…

"It is important to be faithful to your values and to your opinions, but remember that your opinions are opinions. And remember that your values may reorganize themselves over time."

-Tim O'Brien, Dad's Maybe Book

If you liked the biography plot in Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Risen

By: Ron Rash

3.67

Format: 230 pages, ebook

New York Timesbestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspense… read more

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2. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

By: Gary Paulsen

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness… read more

Similar categories in Gary Paulsen's Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod book and Tim O'Brien's Dad's Maybe Book

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Where All Light Tends to Go

By: David Joy

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bonem… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. Rivers

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, w… read more

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5. Redeployment

By: Phil Klay

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to unde… read more

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  • war
  • audiobook

6. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

By: Truman Capote

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more

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7. Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more

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8. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

By: Gary Gulman

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

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  • audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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10. The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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12. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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13. Such Kindness

By: Andre Dubus III

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Hard Cash Valley (Bull Mountain, #3)

By: Brian Panowich

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

By: Vicki Sokolik

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Hemingway Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known c… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

By: Phil Klay

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • essays
  • audiobook
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20. Dad's Maybe Book

By: Tim O'Brien

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best-selling author Tim O’Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, a… read more

Similar categories in Tim O'Brien's Dad's Maybe Book book and Tim O'Brien's Dad's Maybe Book

  • self help
  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"It is important to be faithful to your values and to your opinions, but remember that your opinions are opinions. And remember that your values may reorganize themselves over time."

-Tim O'Brien, Dad's Maybe Book

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21. Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

By: Symphony Space

3.83

Format: 3 pages, Audio CD

Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United S… read more

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Where All Light Tends to Go

David Joy

3.94

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Redeployment

Phil Klay

3.83

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Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

Gary Gulman

4.14

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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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Amy Chua

3.88

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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Don Winslow

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