14 Best history books like Helen Keller by Stewart Graff, Wayne Alfano, Polly Anne Graff

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Helen Keller

By: Stewart Graff , Wayne Alfano , Polly Anne Graff

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not …

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1. The Cross and the Switchblade

By: David Wilkerson , John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills comes to New York City and influences troubled teenage… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan."

-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade

"The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power."

-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade

"We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals."

-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade

"I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe."

-David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade

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2. A Beautiful Mind

By: Sylvia Nasar

4.13

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

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3. A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Ron Howard , Akiva Goldsman

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Your creativity has value. You’re not wasting your time dreaming."

-Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

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4. Cleopatra: A Life

By: Stacy Schiff

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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5. Gandhi: A Life

By: Yogesh Chadha

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gandhi: A Life reveals the transformation of an ordinary, timid young man, into a leader, whose sta… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Albert Einstein: A Biography

By: Ewald Osers , Albrecht Fölsing

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

"(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archiva… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir

7. Marie Antoinette: The Journey

By: Antonia Fraser

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving boo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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8. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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  • childrens
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

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11. Anne Frank : The Biography

By: Melissa Müller , Rita Kimber , Robert Kimber

4.00

Format: 45 pages,

One of this book's great strengths is writer Melissa Muller's ability to situate Anne Frank's famou… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance

By: Anna Quindlen , Anne Frank , Ruud van der Rol , Rian Verhoeven , Tony Langham , None

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

By: Miep Gies , Alison Leslie Gold

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second W… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

By: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam , Arun Tiwari

3.77

Format: None pages,

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Helen Keller

By: Stewart Graff , Wayne Alfano , Polly Anne Graff

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • school
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

4.19

Format: 714 pages, Paperback

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir

17. Swami Vivekananda on Himself

By: Vivekananda

3.71

Format: 234 pages,

This book is a documentation of selected notes and utterances of Swamiji about himself and his work… read more

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18. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more

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19. A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.30

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Chr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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20. Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

By: Todd Burpo , Lynn Vincent

4.03

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

“A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Jesus has markers."

-Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

"I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle"

-Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

"Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!"

-Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

"I smoothed Colton’s blanket across his chest and tucked him in snug the way he liked—and for the first time since he started talking about heaven, I intentionally tried to trip him up. “I remember yo…"

-Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

21. Helen Keller: A Life

By: Dorothy Herrmann

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Dorothy Herrmann's powerful biography of Helen Keller tells the whole story of the controversial an… read more

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22. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • childrens
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

23. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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24. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Malala Yousafzai , Christina Lamb

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. Wh… read more

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25. Memories Of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Girlhood Friend

By: Alison Leslie Gold

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hannah Goslar lived next door to Anne Frank in Amsterdam. In this touching memoir, as told to Aliso… read more

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26. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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27. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

By: Barack Obama

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more

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28. The Pursuit of Happyness

By: Chris Gardner

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son o… read more

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29. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

By: Anne Frank , Susan Massotty

4.38

Format: 83 pages,

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-yea… read more

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30. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

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31. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By: Maxwell King

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"Good people aren't always good. They just try to be."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"You don't set out to be rich and famous; you set out to be helpful."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Human kindness was probably the single most important thing to Fred Rogers."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Everyone...came to deeply appreciate Fred-Time, that slow-paced world of quiet with Rogers at its center."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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The Cross and the Switchblade

David Wilkerson , John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill

4.26

Transform Your Habits

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

4.13

Transform Your Habits

A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

Ron Howard , Akiva Goldsman

4.45

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Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

4.09

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Ron Chernow

4.16

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

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