11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World by Alex O'Brien

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The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

By: Alex O'Brien

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Revealing' ANGELA SAINI 'Thrilling' PHILLIP BALL 'Deserves to be widely read' ALOM SHAHA …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World by Alex O'Brien , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Play Like a Girl!

By: Jennifer Shahade

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Play Like A Girl! is a collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. C… read more

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2. For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

By: Victoria Coren

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In her long-awa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Abandon

By: Blake Crouch

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

A gripping thriller from Blake Crouch, internationally bestselling author of the Wayward Pines tril… read more

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4. The Anomaly

By: Hervé Le Tellier

3.81

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more

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"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

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5. The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Librar… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Time disproves the lies depression tells."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives"

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

"Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast."

-Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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6. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more

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"Be kind to yourself."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

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8. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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9. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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10. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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11. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

By: Maria Konnikova

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed … read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

By: Jennifer Shahade

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Queen's Gambit , this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling … read more

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13. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

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14. Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite

By: Andrew Jenkinson

4.22

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

By: Alex O'Brien

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Revealing' ANGELA SAINI 'Thrilling' PHILLIP BALL 'Deserves to be widely read' ALOM SHAHA … read more

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16. A-Game Poker: Master The Mental Game, Create A Winning Mindset, & Dominate The Modern Poker Game

By: Elliot Roe

4.30

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Approach poker like a sport, and you'll have the opportunity to be paid like a professional athlete… read more

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12 best-selling nonfiction books like For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren

Transform Your Habits

How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Transform Your Habits

For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

Victoria Coren

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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