11 Best memoir books like Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr

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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation

By: Ken Starr

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Star…

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Cover of Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton

1. Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

By: Andrew Morton

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In a shocking, headline-making story (coming as an NBC TV movie), Andrew Morton goes beyond specula… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society."

-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

"Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da…"

-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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2. 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness

By: Brian Murphy , None

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

3. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

By: Lawrence Wright

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini

4. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

By: Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"By their actions, they will show you who they are."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"I hate when people say 'Enjoy it' when you're complaining or something. I am enjoying it. But I also enjoy complaining about it. It's one of my favorite pastimes."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

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5. My Grandfather's Son

By: Clarence Thomas

3.69

Format: 320 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. My Mother's Secret

By: J.L. Witterick

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A novel based on a true story, a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two fam… read more

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7. North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

By: John Sweeney

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. The regime control… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. A Single Man

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more

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9. The Name of God is Mercy

By: Pope Francis

3.64

Format: None pages, ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extrao… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Mountain Between Us

By: Charles Martin

3.54

Format: None pages,

On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Kno… read more

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11. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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12. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington

By: Condoleezza Rice

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

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13. All the President’s Men

By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

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14. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

15. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

By: Hampton Sides

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. T… read more

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16. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

By: Monica Hesse

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more

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17. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison by Mike Sorrentino

18. Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

By: Mike Sorrentino

4.32

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino gives fans the inside scoop they’ve been begging for with his explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina  Brown

19. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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20. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

Cover of Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office by Brian Baumgartner

21. Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

By: Brian Baumgartner

4.28

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive interviews with every major playe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

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

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray

23. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By: Douglas Murray

4.21

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings

24. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Cover of The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan

25. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

26. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

27. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

28. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson

29. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

By: Tucker Carlson

4.29

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr

30. Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation

By: Ken Starr

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Star… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady by Heath Hardage Lee

31. The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady

By: Heath Hardage Lee

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.In America’s collective consciousnes… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction

19 best-selling history books like Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr

Transform Your Habits

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

Andrew Morton

3.83

Transform Your Habits

81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness

Brian Murphy , None

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

3.31

Transform Your Habits

My Grandfather's Son

Clarence Thomas

3.69

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7 Top historical books like Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Transform Your Habits

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

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Will Cockrell

4.00

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