5 best-selling history books like The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

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The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

4.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi…

"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

If you liked the history plot in The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

By: Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeare… read more

Similar categories in Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption book and Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Without dignity, identity is erased."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

"I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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2. When Breath Becomes Air

By: Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi

4.40

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely obse… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. …"

-Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

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3. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By: Ashlee Vance

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist As… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Job… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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6. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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7. 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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8. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • war
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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9. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

By: Heather Morris

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) book and Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

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12. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • audiobook
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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13. The Little Liar

By: Mitch Albom

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more

Similar categories in Mitch Albom's The Little Liar book and Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

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14. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

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  • audiobook
"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

Cover of The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

15. The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

4.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth book and Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"

-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

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16. Becoming

By: Michelle Obama

4.45

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most ico… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When they go low, we go high"

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"Grief and resilience live together."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"I've learned that it's harder to hate up close."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

"At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

-Michelle Obama, Becoming

Cover of A Promised Land by Barack Obama

17. A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

4.33

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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18. Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Heartstrong

By: Ellidy Pullin

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'If not with you, then for you.' 'It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness by Hugh van Cuylenburg

21. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness book and Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Laura Hillenbrand

4.38

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When Breath Becomes Air

Abraham Verghese , Paul Kalanithi

4.40

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

3.87

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Walter Isaacson

4.00

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John Boyne

4.02

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Kathryn Stockett

3.37

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