11 Top nonfiction books like A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

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A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

By: Judith Flanders

3.49

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

By: Yiyun Li

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayersintroduces a remarkable new writer whose br… read more

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2. Home to Harmony (Harmony, #1)

By: Philip Gulley

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Come home to Harmony, Indiana, a peaceful slice of small-town America, as Sam Gardner, Harmony-born… read more

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3. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

By: Steven Johnson

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
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4. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. Aliens & Anorexia

By: Chris Kraus

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for sof… read more

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6. Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

By: Susie Hodge

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Come on, you know you've thought it--while viewing a -masterpiece- of abstract art, you mutter, -A … read more

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7. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more

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8. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

By: Dinaw Mengestu

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more

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9. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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10. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

By: Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more

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  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

By: Dennis Duncan

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more

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  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"

-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

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12. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

By: Wendy Lower

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

By: Anne Boyd Rioux

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”―Wendy Smith, Boston Globe In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy , Anne … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"And if boys enjoy books about aliens, which they certainly do, why not also books about girls?"

-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

"As girls gravitate to more contemporary fare and away from Little Women , they are missing a lot. Today’s successors to Little Women seem to have overlooked two of the most important themes of Alcott…"

-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

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15. A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

By: Judith Flanders

3.49

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq… read more

Similar categories in Judith Flanders's A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order book and Judith Flanders's A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

  • science
  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • humanities
  • microhistory
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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16. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17. Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome

By: Philip Matyszak

4.02

Format: 208 pages, ebook

In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more

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  • audiobook
"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."

-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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19. Where Were You, Robert?

By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

3.55

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Fifteen-year-old Robert is a dreamer: one evening his eyes blur over and he literally disappears. R… read more

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  • historical
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

11 Top audiobook books like A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

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4.22

Transform Your Habits

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon Winchester

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

3.68

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Lucy Jones

4.54

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