9 Top biography books like Check-raising the Devil by Mike Matusow

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Check-raising the Devil

By: Mike Matusow

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

1. Big Poker The super popular and always entertaining Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is a huge fan favo…

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine book and Mike Matusow's Check-raising the Devil

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. 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

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

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3. Factotum

By: Charles Bukowski

3.93

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more

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"عشق به درد آدم‌های واقعی می‌خورد."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"

-Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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4. Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wiseguy" is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Undisputed Truth

By: Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--an… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. 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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7. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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8. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

By: James McManus

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 2000,Harper's Magazinesent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • nonfiction

11. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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12. Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition

By: Irving Chernev

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this popular classic, the a… read more

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13. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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14. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more

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15. Augustus

By: John Williams

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more

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16. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey, 'The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player

By: Peter Alson , None

4.00

Format: None pages,

A legend before he was of legal age, Stuey Ungar became an underground card-table sensation and wen… read more

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17. Every Hand Revealed

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

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18. Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything

By: Kevin Cook

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

This "raucous retelling of the life of a consummate gambler, grifter and quintessential American ch… read more

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19. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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20. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

By: None

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

- One of the author's sources for this book is a member of the illustrious and mysterious "Corporat… read more

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21. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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22. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I use the word “God"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"This “Hawking temperature"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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23. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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24. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

By: Matt Dinniman

4.53

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BKGYQXW The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-… read more

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25. The Laws of Human Nature

By: Robert Greene

4.37

Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength."

-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

"Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important."

-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

"Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice."

-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

"So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are."

-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

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26. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

By: Tom Segura

4.01

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I'm also, depending on who you ask, VERY funny or not at all"

-Tom Segura, I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

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27. Tremendous

By: Joey "Coco" Diaz

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. . . . Movie star. Family man. Com… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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28. Surrounded by Idiots

By: Thomas Erikson

3.50

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

A runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Id… read more

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  • nonfiction
"... the Green's inability to change."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"Communication happens on the listener’s terms"

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"The analytical Blues are calm, levelheaded, and think before they speak."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

"Rhetoric isn't the art of talking but rather the art of getting others to listen."

-Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

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29. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

By: Billy Walters

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Check-raising the Devil by Mike Matusow

30. Check-raising the Devil

By: Mike Matusow

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

1. Big Poker The super popular and always entertaining Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is a huge fan favo… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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