6 Top autobiography books like Memoirs by Brian Mulroney

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Memoirs

By: Brian Mulroney

3.91

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his fr…

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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

By: Malcolm Gladwell

3.97

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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2. Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

3.81

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"When my time is up,"

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

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3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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4. The Thorn Birds

By: Colleen McCullough

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Powered by the dreams and struggles of three generations, The Thorn Birdsis the epic saga of a fami… read more

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5. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

6. The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was

By: Chantal Hébert

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analyst… read more

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7. City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.93

Format: 780 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the netwo… read more

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"Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Welcome to the Information Jungle."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

8. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

By: Chris Hadfield

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more

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9. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

10. Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics

By: None

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Although he grew up in Windsor and Ottawa as the son of the legendary Cabinet Minister Paul Martin,… read more

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11. The Hinge of Fate (The Second World War, #4)

By: Winston S. Churchill

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more

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12. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

By: Eric Metaxas

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more

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13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

14. The Book of Negroes

By: Lawrence Hill

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more

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15. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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16. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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17. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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18. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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19. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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21. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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22. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

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23. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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24. Robin

By: Dave Itzkoff

4.11

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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26. John Turner: An Intimate Biography of Canada's 17th Prime Minister

By: Steve Paikin

4.45

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

One of the most glamorous and successful politicians in Canadian history In this masterful and enga… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada

By: John Ibbitson

4.34

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

By: Christopher Leonard

4.30

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private com… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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29. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. My Stories, My Times

By: Jean Chrétien

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

One of the most popular Canadian prime ministers in recent history, elected to government for three… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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31. Memoirs

By: Brian Mulroney

3.91

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his fr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • canadian literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

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George W. Bush

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Timothy Snyder

4.38

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