5 Top biography books like They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters by Cecil Foster

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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

By: Cecil Foster

3.54

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award…

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1. Above Suspicion

By: Helen MacInnes

3.89

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

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2. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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3. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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4. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

4.65

Format: None pages, ebook

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more

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5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

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

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

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

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

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

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7. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
  • canada
Cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) by Waubgeshig Rice

8. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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9. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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10. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

Similar categories in Miriam Toews's Women Talking book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • canada
  • audiobook
"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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11. Every City Is Every Other City (Gordon Stewart Mystery, #1)

By: John McFetridge

3.09

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

WINNER of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Awards Behind the scenes, nothing is what it … read more

Similar categories in John McFetridge's Every City Is Every Other City (Gordon Stewart Mystery, #1) book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. A Death at the Party

By: Amy Stuart

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a pa… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. When We Lost Our Heads

By: Heather O'Neill

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

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14. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey

By: Serena Burdick

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the fa… read more

Similar categories in Serena Burdick's The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • audiobook
Cover of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

15. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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16. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

Similar categories in Jen Gunter's The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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19. The Housekeeper

By: Joy Fielding

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their liv… read more

Similar categories in Joy Fielding's The Housekeeper book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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21. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

Cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

22. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

By: Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more

Similar categories in Tsering Yangzom Lama's We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • canada
  • audiobook
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23. The Spoon Stealer

By: Lesley Crewe

4.40

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more

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  • canada
"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."

-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer

Cover of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

24. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."

-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

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25. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7) by Marion Todd

26. A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7)

By: Marion Todd

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets? Harry Richards, local Solicitor. Found in his … read more

Similar categories in Marion Todd's A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7) book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • audiobook
Cover of The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada by John Ibbitson

27. The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada

By: John Ibbitson

4.34

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between … read more

Similar categories in John Ibbitson's The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

28. Wait Softly Brother

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's Wait Softly Brother book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • canada
Cover of The Beatle Bandit: The Bank Robber Who Fuelled the Debate on Guns, Mental Health, and the Death Penalty by Nate Hendley

29. The Beatle Bandit: The Bank Robber Who Fuelled the Debate on Guns, Mental Health, and the Death Penalty

By: Nate Hendley

3.77

Format: 216 pages, ebook

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR NON-FICTION 2022 The sensational t… read more

Similar categories in Nate Hendley's The Beatle Bandit: The Bank Robber Who Fuelled the Debate on Guns, Mental Health, and the Death Penalty book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters by Cecil Foster

30. They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

By: Cecil Foster

3.54

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award… read more

Similar categories in Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters book and Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

14 must-read adult books like They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters by Cecil Foster

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

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21 Top fiction books like The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman

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Everyone Here Is Lying

Shari Lapena

3.80

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The Manor House

Gilly Macmillan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

What the Neighbors Saw

Melissa Adelman

3.35

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Amy Stuart

3.57

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