15 Top nonfiction books like In Spite of Myself: A Memoir by Christopher Plummer

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In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

By: Christopher Plummer

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors. H…

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1. Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

By: Dick Cavett , Jimmy Fallon

3.64

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cu… read more

Similar categories in Dick Cavett's Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Love, Lucy

By: Lucille Ball

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed … read more

Similar categories in Lucille Ball's Love, Lucy book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

"I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

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3. Ru

By: Kim Thúy

4.20

Format: None pages, Broche

Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more

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4. My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

By: Dick Van Dyke

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and belov… read more

Similar categories in Dick Van Dyke's My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. Scenes from My Life

By: John Miller , Judi Dench

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This marvelous collection of images, many of which are drawn from Judi Dench's personal photo album… read more

Similar categories in John Miller's Scenes from My Life book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

By: Christopher Plummer

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors. H… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

By: Alan Alda

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

He's one of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors-a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee f… read more

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8. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

By: Julie Andrews Edwards

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorabl… read more

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9. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

By: Alison Arngrim

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… read more

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10. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Stewart's Making It So book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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12. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

By: Alan Rickman

3.58

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more

Similar categories in Alan Rickman's Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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13. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mercer's Talking to Canadians book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

By: Julie Andrews Edwards

3.88

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews … read more

Similar categories in Julie Andrews Edwards's Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"I know that I am—all that I am. And all that I am is full and ripe. All that I am is standing still, waiting and watching and bursting with life. Holding the straining seams of my skin, my passion an…"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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15. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

By: Anne Lamott

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Look around and see whom you can serve."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

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16. The Birth House

By: Ami McKay

4.03

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco… read more

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"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too…"

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

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17. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

By: Sam Heughan

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Sam Heughan's Waypoints: My Scottish Journey book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir by Sharon Gless

18. Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir

By: Sharon Gless

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Emmy Award–winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, “unforgettably mem… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Gless's Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Ridgerunner

By: Gil Adamson

4.13

Format: 443 pages, Hardcover

Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s aw… read more

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20. Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

By: Todd S. Purdum

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the… read more

Similar categories in Todd S. Purdum's Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

21. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Christopher Plummer's In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

14 Top audiobook books like In Spite of Myself: A Memoir by Christopher Plummer

Transform Your Habits

Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Dick Cavett , Jimmy Fallon

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Love, Lucy

Lucille Ball

4.26

Transform Your Habits

My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

Dick Van Dyke

4.17

Transform Your Habits

In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

Christopher Plummer

3.97

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21 Best audiobook books like On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

Transform Your Habits

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

Transform Your Habits

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

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