6 Best biography books like Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson

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Kit Carson's Autobiography

By: Kit Carson

3.78

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

Kit Carson is the archetypal hero of the American frontier. We have all read of his actions in dim…

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1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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2. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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3. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

By: Robert Lacey , Danny Danziger

3.87

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World… read more

Similar categories in Robert Lacey's The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World book and Kit Carson's Kit Carson's Autobiography

  • nonfiction
  • history
"of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious"

-Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

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4. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

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"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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5. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

3.67

Format: None pages,

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abrah… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

6. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

By: Hampton Sides

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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7. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By: David Halberstam

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

By: Dan Flores

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more

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9. Davy Crockett: His Own Story

By: David Crockett

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Written in 1834, this autobiog… read more

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10. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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11. The Great Plains

By: Walter Prescott Webb

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the peop… read more

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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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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"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. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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14. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By: Richard Flanagan

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more

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15. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Kit Carson's Kit Carson's Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

16. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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17. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Secret Life of Sunflowers

By: Marta Molnar

4.13

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in… read more

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19. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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20. A Texas Pioneer

By: August Santleben

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

August Santleben was born in 1845 in Hanover. Just three and a half months later his parents decide… read more

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21. Kit Carson's Autobiography

By: Kit Carson

3.78

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

Kit Carson is the archetypal hero of the American frontier. We have all read of his actions in dim… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

8 Top history books like Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson

Transform Your Habits

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World

Robert Lacey , Danny Danziger

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

3.67

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam

3.79

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21 must-read history books like My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

James Willard Schultz

4.23

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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

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