16 best-selling biography memoir books like The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Ruby Shamir

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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Ruby Shamir

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspi…

"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Ruby Shamir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Ruby Shamir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Ruby Shamir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Ruby Shamir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Ruby Shamir , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

1. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

2. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

3. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

Similar categories in Jen Psaki's Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

4. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

Similar categories in Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Cover of Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg

5. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more

Similar categories in Pete Buttigieg's Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Cover of Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg

6. Trust: America's Best Chance

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.14

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament… read more

Similar categories in Pete Buttigieg's Trust: America's Best Chance book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it."

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it could be, precisely because you have seen glimmers of…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

7. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

8. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

9. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Kamala's Way: An American Life by Dan Morain

10. Kamala's Way: An American Life

By: Dan Morain

3.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daugh… read more

Similar categories in Dan Morain's Kamala's Way: An American Life book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

11. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

12. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Pelosi's The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House book and Ruby Shamir's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald

13. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

By: Melissa Fitzgerald

4.49

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing  as told by cast members Mel… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy by Brian Tyler Cohen

14. Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

By: Brian Tyler Cohen

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"These are manipulation tactics happening at the hands of the very people whom voters have been groomed to trust. Republicans may claim to hate the Democrats, but frankly there is no one they have mor…"

-Brian Tyler Cohen, Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

15. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

16. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

17. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

18. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It by Leigh McGowan

19. A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It

By: Leigh McGowan

4.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A political book for non-political people from viral TikTok sensation PoliticsGirl. Something’s gon… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

Cover of From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley

21. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 Top audiobook books like The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Ruby Shamir

Transform Your Habits

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Coming Home

Brittney Griner

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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21 best-selling audiobook books like Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki

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Transform Your Habits

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade

4.15

Transform Your Habits

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci

4.59

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