8 best-selling memoir books like Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Volume 1) by Richard Stratton

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Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Volume 1)

By: Richard Stratton

3.89

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from …

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1. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

By: Steve Martin

3.88

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"How many people have never raised their hand before?"

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Cover of Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1) by Scott  Meyer

2. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)

By: Scott Meyer

4.00

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, th… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Known World

By: Edward P. Jones

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more

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4. Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Saxon Tales, on the making of… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.78

Format: None pages,

Ken McElroy robbed, raped, burned, shot, and maimed the citizens of Skidmore, Missouri, without con… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more

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8. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

By: Tom Wainwright

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in t… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

9. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

By: Peter Maas

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In tel… read more

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10. American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

By: Evan Wright , Jon Roberts

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times bestselling book Generatio… read more

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Cover of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

11. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

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12. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

13. The Runaway Jury

By: John Grisham

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco… read more

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14. Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History

By: None

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

A gay man who created New York's most notorious den of heterosexuality . . . an anxious, anything-b… read more

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15. The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

This eighth entry in New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell's epic Saxon Tales series b… read more

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16. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Cover of The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family by Matt Birkbeck

17. The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family

By: Matt Birkbeck

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Matt Birkbeck--investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix's #1 movie Girl in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • true crime
  • memoir
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18. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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20. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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21. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. The Need

By: Helen Phillips

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries t… read more

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  • audiobook
"Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened / melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted."

-Helen Phillips, The Need

"She wondered if other mothers experienced it, this permanent state of mild panic, and worried that perhaps they didn't, that perhaps there was something wrong with her."

-Helen Phillips, The Need

"Brilliant, Molly thought, the cheese samples would absorb the kids while she finished the last bit of shopping for the party - the juice boxes, the rainbow sprinkles, the streamers, the other expense…"

-Helen Phillips, The Need

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23. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It’s better to be smart than strong."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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24. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Central Park West

By: James Comey

3.94

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

In the thrilling first crime novel from the former director of the FBI, a murder investigation reve… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
"Our job is to lock up bad people, to protect good people. I've never really thought of our job as finding truth. Our job is to live in gray."

-James Comey, Central Park West

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26. Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

By: Craig Alanson

4.26

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news.  The R… read more

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  • audiobook
"The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically ad…"

-Craig Alanson, Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

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27. Breaking Midnight: A True Story

By: Lynn Walker

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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28. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By: Paul Nurse

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit by Ruben Gallego

29. They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

By: Ruben Gallego

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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30. Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Volume 1)

By: Richard Stratton

3.89

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from … read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. RedCon 1: Memoirs of a Fallujah Marine

By: Michael Scot Smith

4.30

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Many books attempt to depict modern war accurately. Most of them are honorable, but in the end, the… read more

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18 must-read audiobook books like Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Volume 1) by Richard Stratton

Transform Your Habits

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Steve Martin

3.88

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Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)

Scott Meyer

4.00

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Bernard Cornwell

3.73

Transform Your Habits

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Nick Bilton

4.40

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Foe

Iain Reid

3.71

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Nat Cassidy

3.86

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3.60

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