18 books like It's Trevor Noah

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How to Get Rich Donald Trump · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Moderate First he made five billion dollars.Then he made The Apprentice.Now The Donald shows you how to make a fortune, Trump style.HOW TO GET RICHReal estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasn't… Shares: Television broadcasting, Biography & Memoir

The autobiography of an unknown South African Naboth Mokgatle · 1971 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by Naboth Mokgatle offers a detailed and rich narrative of the author's life and his tribal roots, providing a vivid glimpse into the customs, traditions, and history of the Bafokeng people of South Africa. Mokgatle begins with his family history, recounting the circumstances of his birth in 1911 in Phokeng, a tribal village in the Rustenburg district… Shares: South africa, Biography & Memoir

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover… Shares: United States, Biography & Memoir

Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #3 Cube Kid · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Minecraft meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid in book 3 of the very popular 8-Bit Warrior series of the journal of a young Minecraft villager who dares to dream of becoming a Minecraft warrior! THESE ARE THE REAL BOOKS BY CUBE KID! DIARY OF AN 8-BIT WARRIOR: CRAFTING ALLIANCES WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS WIMPY VILLAGER KINDLES 9 & 10. Competition stiffens in book three of the 8-Bit Diary series, as… Shares: Middle Grade, Humor

You Can't Win Jack Black · 1926 · ★ 4.2 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Challenging William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished... Shares: Memoir, United States, Biography & Memoir

The Other Brother Geoff Elliott · 2005 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The Other Brother is a 2002 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mandel Holland and starring Mekhi Phifer, Andre Blake, Michele Morgan and Tangi Miller. Shares: South africa, Biography & Memoir

Bunnicula Deborah Howe · 1979 · ★ 3.9 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery is a children's novel written by Deborah Howe and James Howe, illustrated by Alan Daniel, and published by Atheneum Books in 1979. It inaugurated the Bunnicula series and Bunnicula universe. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the novel as one of the "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." The series chronicles the adventures… Shares: Television, Humor

Sorcerer's Apprentice Amy Wallace · 2003 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the New Age.” The possibility that… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

Das NEINhorn Marc-Uwe Kling · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt. Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen… Shares: Humor

Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom · 1994 · ★ 4.2 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List for 23 combined weeks in 2000, and remained on the New York Times best-selling list for more than four years after. In 2006, Tuesdays with Morrie… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

Shoe Dog Phil Knight · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey · 1981 · ★ 4.1 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends. Shares: Childrens, Humor

Born a Crime Trevor Noah · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would… Shares: South africa, Humor, Biography & Memoir

走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること 村上春樹 · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and--even more important--on his writing.Equal parts training log,… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman · 1986 · ★ 3.6 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Moderate A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. Dreaming of running away,… Shares: Childrens, Humor

Three came home Agnes Newton Keith · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen #1) Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A wonderful memoir of a large and wild family during the early part of the 20th century. The "progressive" parenting and lifestyle of the parents, the hilarious trials and tribulations of the children, and the many adventures through these very interesting decades provide an engrossing and endearing read. Shares: United States, Humor, Biography & Memoir

The White Album Joan Didion · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "The White Album is a mosaic of a time, a mosaic that includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson Family and the Ferguson brothers, the story of Bishop James Pike, and of John Paul Getty's museum, the biker cult, the saga of the California governor's mansions, the romance of water in an arid landscape, the swirl and confusion of th… Shares: Memoir, Biography & Memoir

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