8 must-read biography books like The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir by Tom Garvey

Cover of The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir by Tom Garvey

The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir

By: Tom Garvey

3.80

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

If I overheard anyone telling this story in a bar or at a party, I wouldn’t believe it either. But …

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Cover of The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul  Collins

1. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

By: Paul Collins

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1) by Jordan Belfort

2. The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)

By: Jordan Belfort

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

By: George Saunders

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more

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4. Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.57

Format: None pages,

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5. The Bad Guys Won!

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more

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6. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By: Gilbert King

3.67

Format: 348 pages, ebook

Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more

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7. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

8. Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

By: Terry Pluto

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

The American Basketball Association (1967-1976) gave birth to Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bob Cost… read more

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9. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

By: Jon Krakauer

4.08

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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10. Linked

By: Gordon Korman

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks in… read more

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"A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at."

-Gordon Korman, Linked

Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

11. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams by Adam    Lazarus

12. The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

By: Adam Lazarus

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American John Glenn, the unassail… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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13. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

14. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

By: Quentin Tarantino

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more

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"What’s the secret?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

15. 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 Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss

16. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

By: Mike Reiss

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and produce… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There were three great comedians in my formative years—Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, and Richard Pryor—and they wrecked comedy for a generation. How? By never saying anything funny. You can quote a Steve …"

-Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

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17. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

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"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

Cover of The Assassin's Betrayal (Jason Drake #1) by Auston King

18. The Assassin's Betrayal (Jason Drake #1)

By: Auston King

4.30

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

To save millions of lives, Jason Drake has to kill the woman he loves. Jason Drake knew the only… read more

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Cover of Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher

19. Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

By: Jeff Fletcher

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player--domina… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir by Tom Garvey

20. The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir

By: Tom Garvey

3.80

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

If I overheard anyone telling this story in a bar or at a party, I wouldn’t believe it either. But … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Girl Who Was Forgotten by Amy Vansant

21. The Girl Who Was Forgotten

By: Amy Vansant

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Action-adventure from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - a novel pa… read more

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10 best-selling nonfiction books like The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir by Tom Garvey

Transform Your Habits

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

Paul Collins

3.58

Transform Your Habits

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Jordan Belfort

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Jon Krakauer

4.08

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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

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8 Top audiobook books like Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

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The Letter: My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life

Marie Tillman

3.86

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

4.44

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Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne

4.23

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