8 must-read biography books like Oxygen: A Memoir by William Trubridge

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Oxygen: A Memoir

By: William Trubridge

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

LEARN THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST FREEDIVER One of the most mesmerising b…

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Cover of Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more

Similar categories in Phil Knight's Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike book and William Trubridge's Oxygen: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"We must all be professors of the jungle."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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2. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

By: Trevor Noah

4.49

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You didn’t know your dog was deaf?"

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Don't fight the system, mock the system"

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Don't fight the system. Mock the system."

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

"Relationships are built in the silences."

-Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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3. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

By: Bill Hayes

4.41

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"

-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."

-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"

-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"

-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

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4. Open

By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more

Similar categories in J.R. Moehringer's Open book and William Trubridge's Oxygen: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
"Control what you can control."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"The most animated talks we have are about…things"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

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5. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

Similar categories in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen book and William Trubridge's Oxygen: A Memoir

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits by Adam Skolnick

6. One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits

By: Adam Skolnick

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

One Breathis a gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of freediving… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

7. The Choice: Embrace the Possible

By: Edith Eger , Edith Eva Eger

4.58

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast Edith Eger is sent to Auschwitz. Separated fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
"Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled. "You're going to be fifty anyhow"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"Survivors don't have time to ask, "Why me?" For survivors, the only relevant question is, "What now?"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

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8. Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

3.85

Format: None pages,

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more

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9. The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

By: Scott Pape

4.47

Format: 310 pages,

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  • nonfiction

10. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)

By: Frank McCourt

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book … read more

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11. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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12. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed someth… read more

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13. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

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14. The Wife and the Widow

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more

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15. The Last

By: Hanna Jameson

3.53

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts, this breat… read more

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"The only meaning we might have left as a species--indeed, the only thing left that might matter, that might keep us motivated to get up in the morning--is in the small acts of human kindness we show …"

-Hanna Jameson, The Last

"A lot of people confuse movement with progress," Dylan said. "I knew it was a bad idea but what were we gonna do, barricade them in? They weren't ready to face any kind of truth." I leaned against th…"

-Hanna Jameson, The Last

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16. Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Build a life you don't need to escape from."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

Cover of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

17. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill

18. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. The Last One

By: Will Dean

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a … read more

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20. Gone Bush: A Life in the Backcountry and Beyond

By: Paul Kilgour

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Oxygen: A Memoir by William Trubridge

21. Oxygen: A Memoir

By: William Trubridge

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

LEARN THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST FREEDIVER One of the most mesmerising b… read more

Similar categories in William Trubridge's Oxygen: A Memoir book and William Trubridge's Oxygen: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sports

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