Ascent
By: Chris Bonington
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
ARGUABLY ONE OF BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBERS.Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will chart not only h…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
By: Eddie Izzard
3.86
Format: 15 pages, Audio CD
Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details her childhood, … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world."-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seem…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reas…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
"And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instanta…"-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
3. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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4. Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal b… read more
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5. Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
By: Tom Rob Smith
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent. Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, wher… read more
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6. The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
By: Louis Theroux
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
7. Azincourt
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought by two badly matched armies that met… read more
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8. The White Spider
By: Heinrich Harrer
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer an… read more
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9. Life on Earth
By: David Attenborough
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more
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10. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more
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11. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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12. Nobody Walks
By: Mick Herron
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more
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13. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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14. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behavior
By: David Attenborough
4.45
Format: 864 pages,
"Watching and filming animals world-wide has occupied most of my working life. By the end of the 19… read more
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15. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
17. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
"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
18. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
19. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
By: The Secret Barrister
3.90
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
20. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
21. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
22. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.53
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more
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"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)
24. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- adventure
25. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
26. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
By: Nimsdai Purja
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
27. Ascent
By: Chris Bonington
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
ARGUABLY ONE OF BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBERS.Sir Chris Bonington memoir Ascent will chart not only h… read more
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- climbing
28. Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
By: Bear Grylls
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I’d prefer to be known for the opposite."-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
"That’s how we make the world a little better. Partner with the best, look beyond ourselves, and know that, as with everything, what we sow is what we reap."-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
"Life just says: Keep moving. Always forward. Use the fear as a driver. An emotion to sharpen us. And as for the marks, the scars, the wrinkles… they make us who we are."-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
"My job was simple: have faith through the storm, be determined in my actions, smart in my decisions, trusting of my instinct, and free from worrying about whether I succeeded or failed."-Bear Grylls, Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
29. The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
By: Ant Middleton
4.14
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN I… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- autobiography
- nonfiction
30. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
31. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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- biography
- memoir
