10 best-selling biography books like The Joke Man: Bow to Stern (1) by Jackie Martling

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The Joke Man: Bow to Stern (1)

By: Jackie Martling

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling opens up about his life as a cast member and hea…

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1. Miss America

By: Howard Stern

3.74

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shock-jock radio host Howard Stern ( Private Parts ) shares his own offbeat, outrageous views and o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
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2. Pure Drivel

By: Steve Martin

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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  • humor
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3. 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
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4. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

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"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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5. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and … read more

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6. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen King

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Wake up, genius. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jim… read more

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7. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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8. A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more

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"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

9. Based on a True Story

By: Norm Macdonald

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, ra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
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10. I Suck at Girls

By: Justin Halpern

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Audiobook

"Growing up, every time I saw a men's magazine cover that had a headline about '73 Ways to Please Y… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography

11. I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax

By: Scott Ian

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I'm the Manis the fast-paced, humorous, and revealing memoir from the man who co-founded Anthrax, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

12. End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen King

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winn… read more

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13. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

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"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

14. A Life in Parts

By: Bryan Cranston

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir--both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creat… read more

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15. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

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"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

16. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen King

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed fol… read more

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17. They Call Me Baba Booey

By: Chad Millman , Gary Dell'Abate

5.00

Format: 30 pages,

One of pop culture's great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell'Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, mir… read more

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18. Sh*t My Dad Says

By: Justin Halpern

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself l… read more

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19. Firestarter

By: Stephen King

3.91

Format: 564 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805. The Department of Scientific Intelligence … read more

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"Winter is coming, he said to Cap."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"Free, free, free... necromancer, I love you."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."

-Stephen King, Firestarter

"El cerebro es un músculo que puede mover el mundo"

-Stephen King, Firestarter

20. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more

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21. Billy Budd, Sailor

By: Herman Melville

3.76

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

A handsome young sailor is unjustly accused of plotting mutiny in this timeless tale of the sea. read more

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22. A Light in the Attic

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more

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23. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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24. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

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"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

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25. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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26. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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27. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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28. 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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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
"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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29. There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE

By: Brian Gewirtz

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz brings readers behind the scenes for an unprecedented look at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

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31. The Joke Man: Bow to Stern (1)

By: Jackie Martling

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling opens up about his life as a cast member and hea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography

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Steve Martin

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