10 best-selling biography books like Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace

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Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

By: Christopher Wallace

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose lif…

If you liked the biography plot in Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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3. Forever and a Day

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

*THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A spy is dead. A legend is born. Read the explosive new James… read more

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4. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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6. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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7. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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8. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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9. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
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10. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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11. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

By: Brad Stulberg

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset … read more

Similar categories in Brad Stulberg's Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

13. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
Cover of Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover by Graham Boynton

14. Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover

By: Graham Boynton

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Graham Boynton's Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life i… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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16. Larry McMurtry: A Life

By: Tracy Daugherty

4.25

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry fr… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Daugherty's Larry McMurtry: A Life book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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19. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace

20. Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

By: Christopher Wallace

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose lif… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard book and Christopher Wallace's Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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3.67

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