6 Best biography books like If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie

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If Walls Could Speak

By: Moshe Safdie

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and th…

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Cover of Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever M ade by Charles V. Bagli

1. Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever M ade

By: Charles V. Bagli

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billion… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

3. Tara Road

By: Maeve Binchy

3.48

Format: None pages,

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4. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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  • audiobook
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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5. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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  • audiobook
"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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7. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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9. 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
  • audiobook
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10. Reykjavík: A Crime Story

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.66

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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12. A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

By: Milan Kundera

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Under an Outlaw Moon

By: Dietrich Kalteis

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He’s reckless, she’s naive. Longing for freedom fr… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. My Heart

By: Corinna Luyken

4.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days… read more

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15. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler

16. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

By: Laura Meckler

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Away from the Dead

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

By: Simon Parkin

3.95

Format: 432 pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arreste… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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20. If Walls Could Speak

By: Moshe Safdie

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and th… read more

Similar categories in Moshe Safdie's If Walls Could Speak book and Moshe Safdie's If Walls Could Speak

  • architecture
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door by Molly Peacock

21. Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

By: Molly Peacock

4.41

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked pain… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"To classify an intuitively bold and technically deft artist like Mary Hiester Reid as a poetry-reading lady flower painter in a high collar misses the fact that she slipped that collar at every oppor…"

-Molly Peacock, Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

4.09

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The Postcard

Anne Berest

4.37

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My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

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Colm Tóibín

4.02

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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