20 best-selling nonfiction books like Fighter by Niall Kelly

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Fighter

By: Niall Kelly

4.49

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic and moving journey, from the backstreets of London and Limerick to the summit of the world'…

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1. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor

By: Michael Smith

4.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Four Kings: The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball by George Kimball

2. Four Kings: The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball

By: George Kimball

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxin… read more

Similar categories in George Kimball's Four Kings: The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman

3. Undisputed Truth

By: Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--an… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Back From the Brink: The Autobiography by None, Paul McGrath

5. Back From the Brink: The Autobiography

By: None , Paul McGrath

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The autobiography of this Irish soccer player is not a football story but a human story that goes f… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing by Donald McRae

6. Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing

By: Donald McRae

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dark Tradeis Donald McRae's illuminating five-year journey through the intense and forbidding world… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara March

7. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger

8. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

By: H.G. Bissinger

3.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

9. The Tao of Wu

By: The RZA

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

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10. The Rider

By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more

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11. Journeymen: The Other Side of the Boxing Business, A New Perspective on the Noble Art

By: Mark Turley

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

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12. Legacy

By: James Kerr

4.17

Format: 128 pages,

Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. In Lega… read more

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13. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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14. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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15. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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16. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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17. Shuggie Bain

By: Douglas Stuart

4.31

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more

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"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Cover of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

18. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

19. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

20. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cover of The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports by Joshua  Robinson

21. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Robinson's The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • sports
  • nonfiction
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

22. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

Similar categories in Bill Browder's Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan

23. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7) by Steve Cavanagh

24. The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICA The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fo… read more

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Cover of The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game by Roddy Collins

25. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

By: Roddy Collins

4.28

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Collins's The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Warrior: (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Tris Dixon

26. Warrior: (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)

By: Tris Dixon

4.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** Matthew Saad Muhammad was arguably the… read more

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Cover of In Sunshine or in Shadow by Donald McRae

27. In Sunshine or in Shadow

By: Donald McRae

4.56

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the most captivating boxing writers on the planet' Barry McGuigan'A superb tale . . . His i… read more

Similar categories in Donald McRae's In Sunshine or in Shadow book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • sports
  • nonfiction
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28. The Grass Ceiling

By: Eimear Ryan

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is it like to be female in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play with the boys, more pe… read more

Similar categories in Eimear Ryan's The Grass Ceiling book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Choice by Philly McMahon

29. The Choice

By: Philly McMahon

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

When Dublin footballer Philly McMahon lost his older brother John in 2012, it brought to an end a p… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Fighter by Niall Kelly

30. Fighter

By: Niall Kelly

4.49

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic and moving journey, from the backstreets of London and Limerick to the summit of the world'… read more

Similar categories in Niall Kelly's Fighter book and Niall Kelly's Fighter

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Ricky Hatton's Vegas Tales by Ricky Hatton

31. Ricky Hatton's Vegas Tales

By: Ricky Hatton

3.89

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

Ricky Hatton's brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

14 Top biography books like Fighter by Niall Kelly

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An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor

Michael Smith

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Four Kings: The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball

George Kimball

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Back From the Brink: The Autobiography

None , Paul McGrath

3.73

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Douglas Stuart

4.31

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Michael Magee

4.06

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