5 Best nonfiction books like Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact by Asher Price

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Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact

By: Asher Price

4.29

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Earl Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushin…

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Cover of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day by Joel Selvin

1. Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

By: Joel Selvin

4.19

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebra… read more

Similar categories in Joel Selvin's Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day book and Asher Price's Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

4.42

Format: 601 pages, Paperback

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more

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"All great and precious things are lonely."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A man without words is a man without thought."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

3. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

By: Steven Tyler

3.93

Format: None pages,

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-… read more

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Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

4. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

5. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

By: John Feinstein

4.08

Format: 288 pages,

"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more

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6. The Maze (John Corey, #8)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.76

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a “genuinely thrilling” ( The New … read more

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Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

7. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou

4.41

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"

-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Cover of Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti

8. Dava Shastri's Last Day

By: Kirthana Ramisetti

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy—a decisio… read more

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"And then maybe like a few months after the divorce, I read an amazing quote: 'Compatibility is an achievement of love. It shouldn't be its precondition.' Well, that hit me in the gut."

-Kirthana Ramisetti, Dava Shastri's Last Day

Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

9. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

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"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Cover of Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson

10. Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers

By: Doug J. Swanson

3.86

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A twenty-first-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic… read more

Similar categories in Doug J. Swanson's Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers book and Asher Price's Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact

  • nonfiction
Cover of Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse by Jayme Lynn Blaschke

11. Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse

By: Jayme Lynn Blaschke

3.80

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode “La Gr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact by Asher Price

12. Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact

By: Asher Price

4.29

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Earl Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushin… read more

Similar categories in Asher Price's Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact book and Asher Price's Earl Campbell: Yards after Contact

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • football

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

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4.30

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2.00

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