6 best-selling biography memoir books like The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper

Cover of The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper

The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor

By: Ali Gripper

4.31

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary the story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3) by Amish Tripathi

1. The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

ONLY A GOD CAN STOP IT. Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and… read more

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2. Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

By: Dion Leonard

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village by James Maskalyk

3. Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village

By: James Maskalyk

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

"People are hungry to be brought closer to the world, even its hard parts. I went to Sudan, and am … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

4. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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5. करोडौं कस्तूरी

By: Amar Neupane

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Karodaun Kasturi is the story of Haribamsa Acharya. Not the most respected and popular Nepali actor… read more

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6. Khalangama Hamala

By: Radha Paudel , राधा पौडेल

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

raadhaa pauddel citvnmaa nrsko srkaarii jaagir chaadder surkssit maatRtv kaarykrmkaa laagi jumlaa g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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  • nonfiction
"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

8. Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

By: Damien Brown

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line,… read more

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9. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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10. Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more

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11. Land Where I Flee

By: Prajwal Parajuly

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi - her landmark 84th birthday - Chitralekha's grandch… read more

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12. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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13. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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14. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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15. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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16. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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17. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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18. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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  • book club
"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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19. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living by Héctor  García

20. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

By: Héctor García

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

3 Books Collection Set: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life The people of Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
"Walk slowly and you’ll go far"

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Keep going; don’t change your path."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Happiness is always determined by your heart."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"when you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

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21. दोषी चश्मा [Doshi Chashma]

By: Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

3.99

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

This book is a collection of fascinating and interesting stories which are somewhere related to Nep… read more

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22. एक सर्को माया [Ek Sarko Maya]

By: G.S. Poudel

4.09

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

हरेक कथाभित्र दुइवटा कथाहरु हुन्छन। एउटा कथा, जो कागजको सेतो पृष्ठमाथी मसिको कालो रङ्मा बगिरहेको हुन्छ र… read more

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23. प्रिय सुफी [Priya Sufi]

By: Subin Bhattarai

3.85

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"प्रिय सुफी" सुबिन भट्टराईको आउदै गरेको उपन्यास हो | लेखकको पाँचौ पुस्तकको रुपमा आउन लागेको यस उपन्यास २… read more

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24. The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

4.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

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25. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
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26. Think Like a Monk

By: Jay Shetty

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
"When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time."

-Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk

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27. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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Cover of From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle

28. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
Cover of Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl by Sonia  Henry

29. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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30. A Doctor in Africa

By: Andrew Browning

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. The Australian doctor saving the l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper

31. The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor

By: Ali Gripper

4.31

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary the story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club

14 Best nonfiction books like The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor by Ali Gripper

Transform Your Habits

Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

Dion Leonard

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village

James Maskalyk

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Khalangama Hamala

Radha Paudel , राधा पौडेल

3.50

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Coco Solid

4.23

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Michael Bennett

3.94

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Emily Perkins

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