6 Best autobiography books like Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara

Cover of Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara

Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

By: Ronan O'Gara

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ronan O'Gara is quite simply one of the greatest sportsmen Ireland has ever produced. He is a brill…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Open by J.R. Moehringer, Andre Agassi

1. Open

By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more

Similar categories in J.R. Moehringer's Open book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • sports
  • biography
"Control what you can control."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"The most animated talks we have are about…things"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"

-J.R. Moehringer, Open

Cover of Back From the Brink: The Autobiography by None, Paul McGrath

2. Back From the Brink: The Autobiography

By: None , Paul McGrath

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The autobiography of this Irish soccer player is not a football story but a human story that goes f… read more

Similar categories in None's Back From the Brink: The Autobiography book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Come What May: The Autobiography by Dónal Óg Cusack

3. Come What May: The Autobiography

By: Dónal Óg Cusack

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Donal Og Cusack has been one of Ireland's leading hurlers for the past decade, winning five Munster… read more

Similar categories in Dónal Óg Cusack's Come What May: The Autobiography book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) by Steven Erikson, Gabriel Stoian

4. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more

Similar categories in Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

5. Unraveling Oliver

By: Liz Nugent

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her." So begins Liz Nugent's astonishing debut … read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Unraveling Oliver book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

6. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

Similar categories in James Joyce's Dubliners book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

Cover of Prophet Song by Paul    Lynch

7. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

8. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

Cover of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim  Marshall

9. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cover of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

Similar categories in Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Cover of Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

12. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

By: David Goggins

4.32

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Best SellerOver 5 million copies soldFor David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare --… read more

Similar categories in David Goggins's Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • biography
"I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done"

-David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

"No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you."

-David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

"You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard."

-David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

"You can be born in a fucking sewer and still be the baddest motherfucker on earth."

-David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

Cover of The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes

13. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

Similar categories in Terry Hayes's The Year of the Locust book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

Cover of The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

14. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Cover of The Promise by Damon Galgut

15. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

Similar categories in Damon Galgut's The Promise book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

Cover of The Trees by Percival Everett

16. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's The Trees book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Cover of Boys Don't Cry by Fíona Scarlett

17. Boys Don't Cry

By: Fíona Scarlett

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more

Similar categories in Fíona Scarlett's Boys Don't Cry book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

Cover of Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices by Keith Earls

18. Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices

By: Keith Earls

4.35

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

  ★ AN POST IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER! ★ Fight Or My Life, My Choices is the autob… read more

Similar categories in Keith Earls's Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Battle by Paul O'Connell

19. The Battle

By: Paul O'Connell

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby Paul O'Connell. There has never been a rugby player quite … read more

Similar categories in Paul O'Connell's The Battle book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Bull: My Story by John Hayes

20. The Bull: My Story

By: John Hayes

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

John 'The Bull' Hayes is an Irish rugby legend. Keith Wood calls him a 'rugby giant', Donncha O'Cal… read more

Similar categories in John Hayes's The Bull: My Story book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

Cover of Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara

21. Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

By: Ronan O'Gara

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ronan O'Gara is quite simply one of the greatest sportsmen Ireland has ever produced. He is a brill… read more

Similar categories in Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography book and Ronan O'Gara's Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography

  • autobiography
  • sports
  • biography

7 Best biography books like Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography by Ronan O'Gara

Transform Your Habits

Open

J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Back From the Brink: The Autobiography

None , Paul McGrath

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Come What May: The Autobiography

Dónal Óg Cusack

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

David Goggins

4.32

View all the books

18 Best literary fiction books like Boys Don't Cry by Fíona Scarlett

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Juno Loves Legs

Karl Geary

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.