15 best-selling nonfiction books like Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut by Joshua Coombes

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Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut

By: Joshua Coombes

4.60

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Through the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into…

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1. 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
  • memoir
"...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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2. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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3. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

By: Kelly McDaniel

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

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5. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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6. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker

By: Niall Harbison

4.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

By: Patrick Grant

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

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13. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. The Secrets of Flowers

By: Sally Page

4.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

From the author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Keeper of Stories and The Book of Beginnings come… read more

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15. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious

By: Tim Minchin

4.42

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

4.16

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes a sweeping new h… read more

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17. Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel

By: Sophie Green

3.98

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Sophie Green, Top Ten bestselling author of The Bellbird River Country Choir and Weekends with the … read more

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18. The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy

By: Eric Beecher

4.02

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media mogul… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut

By: Joshua Coombes

4.60

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Through the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

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21. We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go

By: Gina Chick

4.56

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomita… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

8 must-read biography books like Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut by Joshua Coombes

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Danny Trejo

4.42

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Adam Higginbotham

4.60

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Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

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Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker

Niall Harbison

4.67

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Shannon Reed

3.71

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Catherine Newman

3.75

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.19

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