12 must-read biography books like At the Edge: Riding for My Life by Danny MacAskill

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At the Edge: Riding for My Life

By: Danny MacAskill

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The R…

If you liked the biography plot in At the Edge: Riding for My Life by Danny MacAskill , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them by None, Steve   Peters

1. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

By: None , Steve Peters

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Night Gardener

By: Jonathan Auxier

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier's exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantas… read more

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4. The Casual Vacancy

By: J.K. Rowling

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pa… read more

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5. Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

By: Jill Homer

3.14

Format: 160 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
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6. Black Hawk Down

By: Mark Bowden

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more

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  • nonfiction

7. The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back… read more

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8. Mutant Message Down Under

By: Marlo Morgan

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Mutant Message Down Underis the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through … read more

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9. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.26

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more

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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)

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10. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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11. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

By: Florence Williams

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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13. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home by Jeremy Clarkson

14. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

16. The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson

4.32

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
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18. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

20. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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23. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Cover of The Snowdonia Killings (DI Ruth Hunter, #1) by Simon McCleave

24. The Snowdonia Killings (DI Ruth Hunter, #1)

By: Simon McCleave

4.09

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

A small-town murder. A big city detective. Can she unravel the gruesome trail of clues before the k… read more

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25. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

By: Jill Heinerth

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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26. Heavy

By: Kiese Laymon

4.48

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

Cover of Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik

27. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

By: Mark Miodownik

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey by Geraint Thomas

28. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe by Dean Nicholson

29. Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe

By: Dean Nicholson

4.38

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Discover the nationally bestselling, true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Around The World In 80 Days by Mark Beaumont

30. Around The World In 80 Days

By: Mark Beaumont

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The inspiring story of one man's record-breaking cycle around the world.On Monday 18th September 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling
Cover of At the Edge: Riding for My Life by Danny MacAskill

31. At the Edge: Riding for My Life

By: Danny MacAskill

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • cycling

24 Top nonfiction books like At the Edge: Riding for My Life by Danny MacAskill

Transform Your Habits

Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

None , Steve Peters

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

Jill Homer

3.14

Transform Your Habits

Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden

3.75

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

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

Erik Larson

4.24

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