7 must-read biography books like The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw by Walter Noble Burns

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The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw

By: Walter Noble Burns

4.02

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Originally published in 1926, this biography tells the rousing tale of Billy the Kid, once of the m…

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1. A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

By: Lee Child

4.05

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose, patch… read more

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"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive"

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

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2. Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

By: Lee Child

4.22

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night… read more

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"Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything."

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

"Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds o…"

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

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3. The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

By: Lee Child

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watc… read more

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"You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be."

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

"He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both …"

-Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

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4. The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more

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  • westerns
"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

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5. Allan Quatermain

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Allan Quartermain is a sequel to the famous novel King Solomon's Mines. Quatermain has lost his onl… read more

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6. Triple

By: Ken Follett

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

As the nuclear arms race escalates in the Middle East, the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen ter… read more

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7. The Great Hurricane: 1938

By: Cherie Burns

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Th… read more

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8. Voices from D-Day: Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle for Normandy

By: Jon E. Lewis

3.24

Format: 324 pages, ebook

Voices From D-Dayfeatures classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with fr… read more

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9. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

By: Matt Cain

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more

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"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."

-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

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10. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • westerns
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11. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly “… read more

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12. The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Karen Abbott

3.69

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation. In the e… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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13. A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story

By: Beth Rodden

4.05

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • westerns
  • nonfiction
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15. Silent Came the Monster: A Novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks

By: Amy Hill Hearth

3.78

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

"Sharks are as timid as rabbits." So says a superintendent of the Coast Guard, dismissing the possi… read more

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16. Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch

By: John R. Barletta

4.50

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

It is an image etched in the minds of a generation: Ronald Reagan perched atop his horse, riding th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-thailand Death Railway by H. Robert Charles

17. Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-thailand Death Railway

By: H. Robert Charles

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blackbeard: The Birth of America by Samuel Marquis

18. Blackbeard: The Birth of America

By: Samuel Marquis

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year AwardsWinner Beverly Hills Book AwardsAward-Winning Finalist… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. The Children's Game

By: Max Karpov

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A frighteningly plausible, fast-paced thriller about a Russian cyberattack on America, involving fa… read more

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20. The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw

By: Walter Noble Burns

4.02

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Originally published in 1926, this biography tells the rousing tale of Billy the Kid, once of the m… read more

Similar categories in Walter Noble Burns's The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw book and Walter Noble Burns's The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw

  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • westerns
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael    Connelly

21. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

By: Michael Connelly

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more

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6 Top history books like The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw by Walter Noble Burns

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Karen Abbott

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

Tom Clavin

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch

John R. Barletta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-thailand Death Railway

H. Robert Charles

4.18

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The Lost World of Bletchley Park: The Official Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre

Sinclair McKay

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

None , Judith M. Heimann

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

William L. Shirer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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