13 best-selling biography memoir books like Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud

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Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar

By: Jon Michaud

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The uniquely inspiring story of a beloved neighborhood bar that united the communities it served. …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Death by the Dozen (Cupcake Bakery Mystery, #3)

By: JM , Jenn McKinlay

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Melanie and Angie are determined to win the Challenge to the Chef to promote their Fairy Tale Cupca… read more

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2. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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  • new york
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3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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4. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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5. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

By: Evan Thomas

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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7. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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8. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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9. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By: Helen Ellis

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

By: Finn Murphy

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul .”―Sloane Crosley, Vanity… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been larg…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply o…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t give two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited sup…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

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11. The Woman Inside

By: M.T. Edvardsson

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-tu… read more

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12. Diva

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more

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13. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

By: Kate Storey

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Kate Storey's White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port book and Jon Michaud's Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

16. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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19. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes

20. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler

21. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

By: Laura Meckler

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach by Ashlee Vance

22. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

By: Ashlee Vance

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Through the Groves: A Memoir

By: Anne Hull

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

24. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. The Woman in the Castello

By: Kelsey James

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this beguiling midcentury historical fiction novel set in 1960s Italy, an ambitious American act… read more

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26. The Witch Hunt (The Witch Haven, #2)

By: Sasha Peyton Smith

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only! The lush and pulse-pounding seq… read more

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27. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America

By: Rachel Louise Martin

4.22

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt

28. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire

29. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

By: Lucas Bessire

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heart… read more

Similar categories in Lucas Bessire's Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains book and Jon Michaud's Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."

-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Cover of Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud

30. Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar

By: Jon Michaud

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The uniquely inspiring story of a beloved neighborhood bar that united the communities it served. … read more

Similar categories in Jon Michaud's Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar book and Jon Michaud's Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar

  • new york
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Evan Thomas

4.41

Transform Your Habits

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

4.07

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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