23 best-selling nonfiction books like What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read by James Haskell

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What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read

By: James Haskell

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful – I…

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1. The Second Half

By: Roddy Doyle , Roy Keane

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of Manchester United and Ir… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton

2. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough

By: Duncan Hamilton

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the dr… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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3. The Osterman Weekend

By: Robert Ludlum

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

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4. Jonny: My Autobiography

By: Jonny Wilkinson

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomen… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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5. The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

By: Craig Harrison , Craig Harrison

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as yo… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. The Test: My Autobiography

By: Brian O'Driscoll

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

This is the long-awaited autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll. … read more

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7. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

By: Steve Coogan , Armando Iannucci , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Book by Partridge, Alan. Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder:… read more

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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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9. What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read

By: James Haskell

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful – I… read more

Similar categories in James Haskell's What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read book and James Haskell's What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read

  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Too Many Reasons to Live by Rob Burrow

10. Too Many Reasons to Live

By: Rob Burrow

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

‘Occasionally in life you come across a person who is talented yet humble, brave but not foolish, i… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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11. The Art of Resilience

By: Ross Edgley

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).…"

-Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience

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12. French Foreign Legion Commando

By: Harry Dobson

4.38

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

A link to my website that contains a few pictures and blogs from my military LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA -T… read more

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13. Iron Ambition: My Life With Cus D'amato

By: Mike Tyson

3.96

Format: None pages, Audio CD

This edition has been cancelled by the publisher. From the former heavyweight champion and New Y… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth

14. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

By: Neil Samworth

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. First Man In: Leading from the Front

By: Ant Middleton

4.02

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan. by Micah Richards

16. The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.

By: Micah Richards

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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17. The Extra Mile

By: Kevin Sinfield

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary memoir from Rugby League's greatest and most inspirational player The Extra Mi… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Rise: The Brand New Autobiography by Siya Kolisi

18. Rise: The Brand New Autobiography

By: Siya Kolisi

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

‘Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.’ M… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story: A Non-Memoir by James Blunt

19. Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story: A Non-Memoir

By: James Blunt

4.16

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography.The truth is My Truth is not The Truth,… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of No Spin: My Autobiography by Shane Warne

20. No Spin: My Autobiography

By: Shane Warne

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the start of his glittering career in 1992, to his official retirement from all formats of the… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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21. How to Be a Footballer

By: Peter Crouch

4.10

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous beha… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind the Mask: My Autobiography by Tyson Fury

22. Behind the Mask: My Autobiography

By: Tyson Fury

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature and weighing just a pound … read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Life to the Limit: My Autobiography by Jenson Button

23. Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

By: Jenson Button

4.22

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. His seventeen years in Formu… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Formula One drivers were like gods to me, growing up."

-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

"The sound of that V10, a rich growl that reached right into my soul."

-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

"All you need to know about racing you can learn from Super Mario Kart."

-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

"A wing on a Formula One car operates like the wing on an aero-plane except in reverse. So whereas the aircraft wing generates life, the wing on a car does the opposite, pushing the car down to the su…"

-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

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24. Loose Head: Confessions of an (Un)professional Rugby Player

By: Joe Marler

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Peter Crouch of Rugby, How to Be a Footballer meets Brian Moore's Beware of the Dog The truth a… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Pride and Passion: My Autobiography by Warren Gatland

25. Pride and Passion: My Autobiography

By: Warren Gatland

4.13

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS. 'excellent' Donal… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Open Side: The Official Autobiography by Sam Warburton

26. Open Side: The Official Autobiography

By: Sam Warburton

4.31

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Updated edition featuring a brand new afterword ‘A terrific book. No one put their body on the lin… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Bomb: My Autobiography by Adam             Jones

27. Bomb: My Autobiography

By: Adam Jones

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In rugby, there are the Flash Harrys and the Glory the fly-halves who run, kick and dazzle; the sc… read more

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Cover of My Autobiography by Rory Best

28. My Autobiography

By: Rory Best

4.01

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

'Extraordinary . . . great fun' Barry Egan, Irish Sunday Independent 'A wonderful story . . . vivi… read more

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Cover of My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography by Eddie     Jones

29. My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography

By: Eddie Jones

4.14

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

Eddie Jones took over as head coach of the England Rugby team in the autumn of 2015 after England's… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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30. The Hurt

By: Dylan Hartley

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'Rugby is great for the soul,' he writes, 'but terrible for the body.' Rugby hurts. It demands men… read more

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  • autobiography
Cover of Who Am I? by Danny Cipriani

31. Who Am I?

By: Danny Cipriani

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

‘Powerful and thoughtful’ Don McRae, Guardian ‘A fascinating and incredibly honest insight into the… read more

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read

James Haskell

4.12

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Rob Burrow

4.53

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Ross Edgley

4.33

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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David Mitchell

4.16

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Billy Connolly

4.16

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