8 must-read biography books like I Carried a Watermelon: Dirty Dancing and Me by Katy Brand

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I Carried a Watermelon: Dirty Dancing and Me

By: Katy Brand

3.94

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing, a warm, witty and accessible look at how K…

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1. The Little Bookshop on the Seine

By: Rebecca Raisin

4.04

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Le Vie En Rose Bookshop owner Sarah Smith has been offered the opportunity to exchange bookshops wi… read more

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2. Strictly Between Us

By: Jane Fallon

3.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Tamsin and Michelle have been inseparable since childhood. Even now they spend all their time toget… read more

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  • audiobook

3. Getting Rid Of Matthew

By: Jane Fallon

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Matthew, Helen's lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie (and t… read more

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4. Behind the Scenes at the Museum

By: Kate Atkinson

3.00

Format: None pages,

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more

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5. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

By: Nigel Slater

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more

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6. The Life and Loves of a He Devil

By: Graham Norton

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Revealing, moving, and hilarious, Graham Norton tells the story of his life through the things he l… read more

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7. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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8. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Gallowa… read more

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  • audiobook
"You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it."

-Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

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13. The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

By: Audrey Burges

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

16. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

By: Daisy May Cooper

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.14

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award  Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series   “G… read more

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  • audiobook
"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

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19. The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.97

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparit… read more

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  • audiobook
"He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one."

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired Ge…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed an…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

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20. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Did I Say That Out Loud?: Notes on the Chuff of Life by Fi Glover

21. Did I Say That Out Loud?: Notes on the Chuff of Life

By: Fi Glover

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Did I Say That Out Loud? Jane Garvey and Fi Glover offer a series of essays interspersed with th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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23. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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24. Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

By: Emily Dean

4.24

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It was simply not possible for someone to be watching Peep Show one day and cease to exist the next."

-Emily Dean, Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

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25. All About Evie

By: Matson Taylor

4.08

Format: 320 pages, ebook

EVIE EPWORTH IS TEN YEARS OLDER. BUT IS SHE ANY WISER?! 1972. Ten years on from the events of The M… read more

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26. ‘Mum, What’s Wrong with You?’: 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know

By: Lorraine Candy

4.25

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Sunday Times bestseller‘The mothering manual we all need’ Claudia Winkleman are you feeling lonel… read more

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Cover of The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics) by Andrea Warner

27. The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing (13) (Pop Classics)

By: Andrea Warner

3.68

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of fem… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of I Carried a Watermelon: Dirty Dancing and Me by Katy Brand

29. I Carried a Watermelon: Dirty Dancing and Me

By: Katy Brand

3.94

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing, a warm, witty and accessible look at how K… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

30. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

By: C.M. Waggoner

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afo… read more

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31. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • audiobook

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Jane Fallon

3.32

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Suzie Miller

4.37

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A Pocketful of Happiness

Richard E. Grant

4.36

Transform Your Habits

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3.92

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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