6 must-read biography memoir books like For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren

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For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

By: Victoria Coren

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In her long-awa…

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1. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

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2. For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

By: Victoria Coren

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In her long-awa… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Coren's For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker book and Victoria Coren's For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • games
  • sports
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3. Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0, #2)

By: Scott Meyer

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next st… read more

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4. Back Story

By: David Mitchell

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mi… read more

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5. How Not To Be a Boy

By: Robert Webb

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But … read more

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6. Work! Consume! Die!: You Are Bored. This is the Antidote

By: Frankie Boyle

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

This is a book full of hope and jokes. A novella tells the story of a newly retired Frankie Boyle, … read more

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7. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey, 'The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player

By: Peter Alson , None

4.00

Format: None pages,

A legend before he was of legal age, Stuey Ungar became an underground card-table sensation and wen… read more

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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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9. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • biography memoir
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12. The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

By: Mike Brooks

4.42

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Return… read more

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"I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all."

-Mike Brooks, The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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13. The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

By: Dan Abnett

4.48

Format: 507 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 3 It all comes down to this final confrontation – the Emperor versus… read more

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"And in the end. It's just a man killing his son with a stone...then the galaxy burns"

-Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

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14. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk

15. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

By: Jeremy Denk

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

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16. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

19. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

By: Zena Hitz

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

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20. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

By: Greg Jenner

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more

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  • nonfiction

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