5 best-selling history books like Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin

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Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce

By: Marcus Griffin

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The original book discussing the inner workings of the professional wrestling business.

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1. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more

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"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

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2. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

By: Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Comics

Alternate Cover Edition One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is… read more

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"I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!"

-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

" Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a …"

-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

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3. Jaws

By: Peter Benchley

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more

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4. Foley is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling

By: Mick Foley

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Foley Is Good,Mick Foley -- former Commissioner of the World Wrestling Federation, aka Cactus Ja… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

5. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

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6. Best Served Cold

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge. There have … read more

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7. Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

By: Zack Hample

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a b… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction

8. The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling

By: David Shoemaker

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestl… read more

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9. Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

By: Steven Erikson

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting, an… read more

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10. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

11. The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)

By: Ken Liu

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Two men rebel together against tyranny--and then become rivals--in this first sweeping book of an e… read more

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12. The Death of WCW

By: R.D. Reynolds , Bryan Alvarez

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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13. Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story

By: Michael Krugman , None

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This is the autobiography of one the top superstars of the WWE - offering a full and frank account … read more

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14. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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15. 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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16. Road of Bones

By: Christopher Golden

3.38

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost sto… read more

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17. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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18. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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19. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

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"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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20. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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21. Devil House

By: John Darnielle

3.22

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more

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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

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22. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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23. Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever

By: Tim Hornbaker

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

For decades, distinct professional wrestling territories thrived across North America. Each regiona… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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24. The Last Real World Champion: The Legacy of "Nature Boy" Ric Flair

By: Tim Hornbaker

3.89

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

For more than a century, professional wrestling has cultivated some of the most eccentric and compe… read more

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25. Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling's Original Sheik

By: Brian R. Solomon

4.34

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wres… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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27. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Best American Short Stories 2020

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.71

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first ti… read more

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29. The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)

By: Josiah Bancroft

4.01

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

The incredible final book in the word of mouth phenomenon fantasy series that began with Senlin Asc… read more

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"I've never known where I was going. I can hardly expect that to change now."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)

"He was quick to rationalize the necessity of these unfortunate casualties, but it did not escape his notice that every justification he mounted was eerily similar to the ones that Marat used to execu…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)

"Marya felt the flying birds of her anxiety quiet once more. Rediscovering that she could be of some help and cheer to others tempered her sense of being caught in another ruse. Perhaps the world was …"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)

"I don't think there's any shame in doing your best. Of course, in hindsight, it's easy to see a better course, a wiser choice. When I look back, I see a thousand small missteps that altogether brough…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel, #4)

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30. Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce

By: Marcus Griffin

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The original book discussing the inner workings of the professional wrestling business. read more

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Mick Foley

3.87

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Zack Hample

3.00

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Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever

Tim Hornbaker

3.93

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Terry Funk , Scott E. Williams

4.23

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Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

Bret Hart

4.25

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Rich Cohen

3.90

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Keith O'Brien

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