10 best-selling biography books like Victoria & Abdul by Lee Hall

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Victoria & Abdul

By: Lee Hall

3.41

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Victoria & Abdul tells the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Kar…

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1. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Wi… read more

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"Para siempre un mensajero, Un viajero demorado, Errante como una pluma, Un marinero guiado por el viento."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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2. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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3. I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

By: Dan Wells

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He's spent his life doing his best not to live up … read more

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"You'll never see us coming."

-Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

"It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver"

-Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

"People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves."

-Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

"Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver"

-Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)

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4. Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

By: Andrew Morton

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In a shocking, headline-making story (coming as an NBC TV movie), Andrew Morton goes beyond specula… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society."

-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

"Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da…"

-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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5. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams

4.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face … read more

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  • nonfiction
"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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6. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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7. Orange Is the New Black

By: Piper Kerman

3.72

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you."

-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

"Faggots make the best friends," she said philosophically. "They're very loyal."

-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

"Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?"

-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

"When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand."

-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black

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8. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. Cleopatra: A Life

By: Stacy Schiff

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Over Your Dead Body (John Cleaver, #5)

By: Dan Wells

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Wither… read more

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12. Catherine, Called Birdy

By: Karen Cushman

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry… read more

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13. A Long Way Home

By: Saroo Brierley

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

14. Mr. Monster (John Cleaver, #2)

By: Dan Wells

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling … read more

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15. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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16. Nothing Left To Lose (John Cleaver, #6)

By: Dan Wells

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Timesbestselling author Dan Wells continues his acclaimed John Wayne Cleaver series, popul… read more

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17. 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

18. Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner, #2)

By: Deborah Ellis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's fathe… read more

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19. I Don't Want to Kill You (John Cleaver, #3)

By: Dan Wells

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

John Cleaver has called a demon--literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. H… read more

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20. Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford

By: Julia Fox

3.72

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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  • nonfiction
"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

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22. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

By: Bill Bryson

3.99

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more

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  • nonfiction
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

23. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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24. The Devil's Only Friend (John Cleaver, #4)

By: Dan Wells

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, b… read more

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25. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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26. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was mu… read more

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"Uncertainty creates panic."

-Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

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27. You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

By: Gabrielle Union

4.12

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When you acknowledge that your vulnerability does not absolve anyone of personal accountability, you will heal from those traumas faster and more fully."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"I am continually awed by the honor and responsibility of raising free Black girls. May you each embrace your vulnerability as your superpower, and may I not falter as I attempt to lead by example."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"The Avengers you assemble don't have to be golden by the standards of the industry you are breaking into. They just need to have the same work ethic as you, and believe in effective communication and…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that if I ever got lost in a big city, "Look for the rainbow flag." She believed in the goodness of the LGBTQ+ community, and knew there would be pr…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

Cover of This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir) by Busy Philipps

28. This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)

By: Busy Philipps

3.91

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Busy Philipps’s autobiographical book offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself."

-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)

"Here's the thing: It's not easy to be a woman in this business. There will always be jokes about your body. There will always be guys who steal your best ideas and pass them off as their own. There w…"

-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)

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29. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

By: Jonathan Reisman

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Librarian of Saint-Malo

By: Mario Escobar

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Libraries are being ransacked. France is torn apart by war. A French librarian is determined to res… read more

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"Sometimes everything has to come crashing down for us to understand what we have built our lives upon."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"The power of words does not lie in the stories we tell, but in our ability to connect to the hearts of those who read them."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"Hopes are just wishes we cast into the wind. And the only thing that can bring them back to us are the inscrutable whims of fate."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"Youth is much more persuasive than maturity, reminding us of what we have forgotten, that the present is the only thing that actually exists."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

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31. Victoria & Abdul

By: Lee Hall

3.41

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Victoria & Abdul tells the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Kar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

15 Top nonfiction books like Victoria & Abdul by Lee Hall

Transform Your Habits

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

Andrew Morton

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Orange Is the New Black

Piper Kerman

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

3.78

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17 Top adult books like The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz Lullaby

Mario Escobar

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Woman with the Blue Star

Pam Jenoff

4.15

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