19 must-read nonfiction books like The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee by Paul D. Gibson

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The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee

By: Paul D. Gibson

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of Eamonn Magee's life takes in a childhood lived during the height of The Tro…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee by Paul D. Gibson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

By: Martin Dillon

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (book… read more

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2. King of the Gypsies: Memoirs of the Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland

By: None

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bartley Gorman was a legend in the brutal world of illegal prize-fighting, and this long-awaited au… read more

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3. 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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4. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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5. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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7. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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8. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

By: Danny Trejo

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"...even in prison I could be free."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

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9. Chances Are...

By: Richard Russo

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more

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"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

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10. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. Football and How to Survive It

By: Pat Nevin

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL this new book is even better. There were times a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

12. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

Cover of The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club by Simon Kuper

17. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

By: Simon Kuper

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Flames

By: Robbie Arnott

4.07

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more

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Cover of The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown

19. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

By: Eliot Brown

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unravelin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK by Simon Kuper

20. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography by Liam Brady

21. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir by Séamas O'Reilly

22. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

By: Séamas O'Reilly

4.13

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

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

23. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend by Martin    O'Neill

24. On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend

By: Martin O'Neill

4.12

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin O’Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football – winning European Cups, capt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Clash of the Clans: The rise of the Irish narcos and boxing’s dirty secret by Nicola Tallant

25. Clash of the Clans: The rise of the Irish narcos and boxing’s dirty secret

By: Nicola Tallant

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

CLASH OF THE CLANS is a story that traces the emergence of the Irish mafia from the streets of Dubl… read more

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26. 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

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

27. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA by Ciarán Murphy

28. This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA

By: Ciarán Murphy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and comm… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis by Conor Niland

29. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. The Knockout

By: Andy Clarke

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

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31. The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee

By: Paul D. Gibson

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of Eamonn Magee's life takes in a childhood lived during the height of The Tro… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

Alan Shipnuck

4.06

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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Danny Trejo

4.42

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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

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Pat Nevin

4.37

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Michael Lewis

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Gary Stevenson

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