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If you loved Coach King by Jerry King, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Biography & Autobiography.

Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Coach King

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Coach King.

Castaway in Paradise The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes — James C. Simmons

Castaway in Paradise The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes

James C. Simmons

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Freedom’s Prophet Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers — Richard S. Newman

Freedom’s Prophet Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

Richard S. Newman

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

True to Life — Janet L. Folger

Janet L. Folger

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Bach — Tim Dowley

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

With Wellington’s Staff at Waterloo The Reminiscences of a Staff Officer During the Campaign of 1815 and with Napoleon on St. Helena — Basil Jackson

With Wellington’s Staff at Waterloo The Reminiscences of a Staff Officer During the Campaign of 1815 and with Napoleon on St. Helena

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

If I Just Breathe — Tina Koral

If I Just Breathe

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Path to the World Becoming You — Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos

A Path to the World Becoming You

Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

God Is in the Details — Diane Pretty

God Is in the Details

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Backstage with Bryan Rooney From Liverpool to Ringo to Donna Summer — Kenny Smith

Backstage with Bryan Rooney From Liverpool to Ringo to Donna Summer

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Down the Crooked Road My Autobiography — Mary Black

Down the Crooked Road My Autobiography

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

I Slept with the Bears — David H. Carpenter

I Slept with the Bears

David H. Carpenter

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Bogart and Bacall A Love Story — Joe Hyams

Bogart and Bacall A Love Story

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Emily Carr A Biography — Maria Tippett

Emily Carr A Biography

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Family Letters of Richard Wagner — Richard Wagner

Family Letters of Richard Wagner

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Working in the Dark Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio — Jimmy Santiago Baca

Working in the Dark Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

My Journey in Mystic China Old Pu’s Travel Diary — John Blofeld

My Journey in Mystic China Old Pu’s Travel Diary

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Sugar King of California The Life of Claus Spreckels — Sandra E. Bonura

The Sugar King of California The Life of Claus Spreckels

Sandra E. Bonura

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Tapped Out Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martia L Arts — Matthew Polly

Tapped Out Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martia L Arts

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Over a Hot Stove Life Below Stairs in Britain’s Great Houses: the Charming Memoirs of a 1930s Kitchen Maid — Flo Wadlow

Over a Hot Stove Life Below Stairs in Britain’s Great Houses: the Charming Memoirs of a 1930s Kitchen Maid

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Art of the Interview Lessons from a Master of the Craft — Lawrence Grobel

The Art of the Interview Lessons from a Master of the Craft

Lawrence Grobel

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Got Your Back Protecting Tupac in the World of Gangsta Rap — Frank Alexander

Got Your Back Protecting Tupac in the World of Gangsta Rap

Frank Alexander

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Outlaw — Jón Gnarr

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Pictures From Italy — Charles Dickens

Pictures From Italy

Charles Dickens

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Schoolboy’s War in Sussex — James Roffey

A Schoolboy’s War in Sussex

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through Coach King by Jerry King. Among the authors featured: James C. Simmons, Richard S. Newman, Janet L. Folger, Tim Dowley, and others.

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