19 Top memoir books like Back from the Dead by Bill Walton, John Papanek

Cover of Back from the Dead by Bill Walton, John Papanek

Back from the Dead

By: Bill Walton , John Papanek

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries a…

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Cover of Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby

1. Michael Jordan: The Life

By: Roland Lazenby

4.31

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more

Similar categories in Roland Lazenby's Michael Jordan: The Life book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game by John Feinstein, Arnold Jacob Red Auerbach

2. Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game

By: John Feinstein , Arnold Jacob Red Auerbach

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

America's favorite sportswriter teams up with Red Auerbach, the most successful and admired coach i… read more

Similar categories in John Feinstein's Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend by Bill Russell, Alan Steinberg, Alan J. Steinberg

3. Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

By: Bill Russell , Alan Steinberg , Alan J. Steinberg

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Bill Russell was the greatest team basketball player ever....[He] has produced a moving tribute to… read more

Similar categories in Bill Russell's Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner, Sue Hovey

4. In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court

By: Brittney Griner , Sue Hovey

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner has been shatte… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Go Up For Glory by Bill Russell, William McSweeny

5. Go Up For Glory

By: Bill Russell , William McSweeny

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Back from the Dead by Bill Walton, John Papanek

6. Back from the Dead

By: Bill Walton , John Papanek

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries a… read more

Similar categories in Bill Walton's Back from the Dead book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

7. Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

By: David Fisher , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESANDUSA TODAY BESTSELLER Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship w… read more

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8. The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more

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9. Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary

By: None

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the most recognized voices in sport… read more

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Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

10. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

12. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) by Jack Carr

13. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

Similar categories in Jack Carr's Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

15. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Dietrich by Don Winslow

16. Dietrich

By: Don Winslow

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Gritty and suspenseful, Dietrich is a hard-boiled whodunnit from Audible Award-winning and internat… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Dietrich book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

17. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of What a Fool Believes: A Memoir by Michael McDonald

18. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

Similar categories in Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes: A Memoir book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

19. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

Similar categories in Rex Chapman's It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics by Dan Shaughnessy

20. Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

By: Dan Shaughnessy

4.22

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the … read more

Similar categories in Dan Shaughnessy's Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

21. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A'ja Wilson

22. Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

By: A'ja Wilson

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A’ja Wilson comes an inspiratio… read more

Similar categories in A'ja Wilson's Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz

23. Let Love Rule

By: Lenny Kravitz

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connect… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Kravitz's Let Love Rule book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

24. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End by Gary M. Pomerantz

25. The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mor… read more

Similar categories in Gary M. Pomerantz's The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • basketball
Cover of Unguarded by Scottie Pippen

26. Unguarded

By: Scottie Pippen

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir from the six-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of F… read more

Similar categories in Scottie Pippen's Unguarded book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever by Jack Curry

27. The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever

By: Jack Curry

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from… read more

Similar categories in Jack Curry's The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Coldest Case (Billy Harney #0.6) by James  Patterson

28. The Coldest Case (Billy Harney #0.6)

By: James Patterson

3.62

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

James Patterson's Detective Billy Harney is back, this time investigating murders in a notorious Ch… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Coldest Case (Billy Harney #0.6) book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography by John             Thompson

29. I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography

By: John Thompson

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off … read more

Similar categories in John Thompson's I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Shadowheart (UNSUB #4) by Meg Gardiner

30. Shadowheart (UNSUB #4)

By: Meg Gardiner

4.07

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other? From #1 New York Times bests… read more

Similar categories in Meg Gardiner's Shadowheart (UNSUB #4) book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall by Elena Delle Donne

31. My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall

By: Elena Delle Donne

4.17

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Elena Delle Donne, 2015 WNBA MVP and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, shares her inspirational story of … read more

Similar categories in Elena Delle Donne's My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall book and Bill Walton's Back from the Dead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

21 Top audiobook books like Back from the Dead by Bill Walton, John Papanek

Transform Your Habits

Michael Jordan: The Life

Roland Lazenby

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Back from the Dead

Bill Walton , John Papanek

3.71

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

John Grisham

4.26

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17 best-selling audiobook books like It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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