9 best-selling autobiography books like Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster

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Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

3.85

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, un…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Mack the Life: The Autobiography

By: Lee Mack

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, heartfelt and hilarious insight into the life of one of our most popular comedians.   … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mack's Mack the Life: The Autobiography book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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2. It's Not Me, It's You

By: Jon Richardson

3.59

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A control freak looks for love. (Women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). "… read more

Similar categories in Jon Richardson's It's Not Me, It's You book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook

3. Back Story

By: David Mitchell

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mi… read more

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4. Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life.

By: Joe Lycett

3.50

Format: None pages,

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5. A Book for Her

By: Bridget Christie

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot, and feminist. On the 30th of April, 2012, a man far… read more

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6. 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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  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • 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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7. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's And Away... book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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8. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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9. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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10. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • comedy
  • contemporary
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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11. What's That Lady Doing?

By: Lou Sanders

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady 'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldst… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sanders's What's That Lady Doing? book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. Ramble Book

By: Adam Buxton

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Ramble /ˈramb(ə)l/ Verb 1. walk for pleasure in the countryside. ‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the do… read more

Similar categories in Adam Buxton's Ramble Book book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

3.85

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, un… read more

Similar categories in James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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14. Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By

By: David Mitchell

3.68

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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15. Chapters

By: Tim Key

4.58

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Tim Key got ants in his pants and has written an anthology of poetry. It is his least ambitious pro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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16. Ayoade On Top

By: Richard Ayoade

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

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17. Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

By: Vivien Goldman

3.79

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music jou… read more

Similar categories in Vivien Goldman's Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot book and James Acaster's Perfect Sound Whatever

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. The Grip of Film

By: Richard Ayoade

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"A work of shimmering, glimmering genius" - Stephen Fry Gordy LaSure’s passionate about film. He ea… read more

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  • biography
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator ?"

-Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

"Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator/i>? "

-Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

"Have you ever had a penile fraction? It hurts. It is caused by sudden trauma to an erect penis."

-Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

"There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia : 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.' Duh."

-Richard Ayoade, The Grip of Film

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19. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook

14 Top audiobook books like Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster

Transform Your Habits

Mack the Life: The Autobiography

Lee Mack

3.75

Transform Your Habits

It's Not Me, It's You

Jon Richardson

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

And Away...

Bob Mortimer

4.33

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13 must-read audiobook books like Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade

Transform Your Habits

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

David Mitchell

3.45

Transform Your Habits

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

James Acaster

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )

Terry Pratchett

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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