21 Best nonfiction books like Tony 10: The Astonishing Story of the Postman Who Gambled €10,000,000 … and Lost It All by Declan Lynch

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Tony 10: The Astonishing Story of the Postman Who Gambled €10,000,000 … and Lost It All

By: Declan Lynch

4.19

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O’Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in…

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1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"We must all be professors of the jungle."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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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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  • nonfiction
  • 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 Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By: Johann Hari

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Second Half

By: Roddy Doyle , Roy Keane

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of Manchester United and Ir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

5. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

By: Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more

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  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger

6. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

By: H.G. Bissinger

3.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

7. Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh

By: Toby Harnden

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Armagh was described as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland Secretar… read more

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8. No Good Deed

By: John Niven

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when the homeless man on the street you've just given money to thanks you by name an… read more

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9. Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more

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10. 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

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"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

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11. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more

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

12. 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

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"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

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13. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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14. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. 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
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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18. Topographia Hibernica

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.33

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more

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19. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • biography
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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20. Champagne Football: The Rise and Fall of John Delaney and the Football Association of Ireland

By: Mark Tighe

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own p… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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21. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • biography
Cover of The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game by Roddy Collins

22. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

By: Roddy Collins

4.28

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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23. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • biography
Cover of The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes by Pat Marry

24. The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

By: Pat Marry

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, includ… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis by Conor Niland

25. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever by Aaron Rogan

26. Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever

By: Aaron Rogan

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From cheeky high-street bookmaker to billion-dollar the incredible story behind Paddy Power’s unst… read more

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Cover of Quinn by Trevor Birney

27. Quinn

By: Trevor Birney

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This is the gripping inside story of Ireland’s bankrupt billionaire, Sean Quinn, who went from rags… read more

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Cover of Gambling For Life: Harry Findlay by Harry Findlay

28. Gambling For Life: Harry Findlay

By: Harry Findlay

3.86

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

IMAGINE what it would be like to turn your back on the nine-to-five drudgery of normal working life… read more

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29. Tony 10: The Astonishing Story of the Postman Who Gambled €10,000,000 … and Lost It All

By: Declan Lynch

4.19

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O’Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of Emerald Exiles: How the Irish Made Their Mark on World Football by Barry Landy

30. Emerald Exiles: How the Irish Made Their Mark on World Football

By: Barry Landy

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

When football players leave Ireland behind in the hopes of carving out a future in the professional… read more

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Cover of Murder at Lordship: Inside the Hunt for a Detective's Killer by Pat Marry

31. Murder at Lordship: Inside the Hunt for a Detective's Killer

By: Pat Marry

4.24

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

In January 2013, the nation was horrified when Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was murdered as he ca… read more

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15 Best biography books like Tony 10: The Astonishing Story of the Postman Who Gambled €10,000,000 … and Lost It All by Declan Lynch

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Open

J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Second Half

Roddy Doyle , Roy Keane

2.50

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Bill Simmons

4.20

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Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales

3.76

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Ball Four

Jim Bouton

4.05

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Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

4.22

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