8 Best biography books like Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela

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Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

By: Ndaba Mandela

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised b…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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2. 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

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • africa
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)

By: Zen Cho

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut. At his wit's… read more

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4. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. I… read more

Similar categories in William Kamkwamba's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

5. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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6. The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM

By: Hal Elrod

3.90

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of th… read more

Similar categories in Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • audiobook
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7. Morele ambitie

By: Rutger Bregman

3.71

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

De grootste verspilling van onze tijd is de verspilling van talent. Iedere carrière duurt 2.000 wer… read more

Similar categories in Rutger Bregman's Morele ambitie book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"De geschiedenis doet niks. Mensen doen dingen."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Het doel van leiderschap is om meer leiders te produceren, niet meer volgers."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"De grote advieskantoren zitten vol met toptalenten die niet weten wat ze met hun talent aan moeten, en daarom maar consultant zijn geworden."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Ja, we hebben activisten nodig die strijden tegen al het onrecht in het hier en nu, maar er is ook behoefte aan makers en bouwers van de toekomst."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

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8. De omwenteling

By: Suzanna Jansen

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Op een ochtend in 1981 hangt Betsy Jansen-Dingemans een laken buiten. Het is geen wasdag en het lak… read more

Similar categories in Suzanna Jansen's De omwenteling book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1)

By: Francine Oomen

3.39

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Francine Oomen is terug (van nooit weggeweest)! Na 25 jaar Hoe overleef ik is er nu het eerste dee… read more

Similar categories in Francine Oomen's Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1) book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • audiobook
"Ik voel me soms net een laf glaasje cola, uit een fles die te lang heeft opengestaan. (...) Mijn voornemen voor deze reis is om mijn hart te volgen, en mijn missie is mijn prik terug te vinden."

-Francine Oomen, Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1)

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11. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

Similar categories in Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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12. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

Similar categories in Christian Cooper's Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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13. Gezinsverpakking

By: Bart Chabot

3.26

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

De Chabotten ― vier broers, twee ouders en een hond. Alle zeven verhalen ze in Gezinsverpakking ove… read more

Similar categories in Bart Chabot's Gezinsverpakking book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

By: Oprah Winfrey

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as… read more

Similar categories in Oprah Winfrey's The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you hom…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with o…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Your life is always speaking to you in whispers, guiding you to your next right step. And in many situations, the whisper is also the first warning. It’s a quiet nudge from deep within saying, Hmmm, …"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

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15. Stargazing

By: Jen Wang

4.17

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both… read more

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16. Sander en de brug

By: Sander Schimmelpenninck

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelt Sander Schimmelpenninck de ongelijkheid in Nederland aan de… read more

Similar categories in Sander Schimmelpenninck's Sander en de brug book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Wanneer we onvoldoende doordrongen zijn van onze individuele verantwoordelijkheid voor het grotere geheel, wordt de solidariteit aangetast en wordt egoïsme de standaard."

-Sander Schimmelpenninck, Sander en de brug

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17. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more

Similar categories in Pete Buttigieg's Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

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18. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam

19. Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

By: Yusef Salaam

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison … read more

Similar categories in Yusef Salaam's Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"No matter what life has taken you through...try to live full and die empty."

-Yusef Salaam, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

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20. Twilight Territory

By: Andrew X. Pham

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Japanese-occupied Vietnam,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew X. Pham's Twilight Territory book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • audiobook
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21. Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

By: Ndaba Mandela

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised b… read more

Similar categories in Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela book and Ndaba Mandela's Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • south africa
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 best-selling audiobook books like Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela by Ndaba Mandela

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

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM

Hal Elrod

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Morele ambitie

Rutger Bregman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

De omwenteling

Suzanna Jansen

4.25

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Ibi Zoboi

4.41

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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels

4.52

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David Frum

3.96

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Uché Blackstock

4.46

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