5 must-read nonfiction books like Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice by Charles Oldham

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Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice

By: Charles Oldham

3.82

Format: 272 pages, ebook

North Carolina native and lawyer Charles Oldham brings the incredible and unpredictable tale of the…

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1. A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

By: Lee Child

4.05

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose, patch… read more

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"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive"

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

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2. Topsail Island: Mayberry by the Sea

By: Ray McAllister , Vicki McAllister

4.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

As if caught in a time warp, Topsail resembles resorts of decades past. It has the small-town feel … read more

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  • nonfiction

3. A Long Walk Up the Water Slide (Neal Carey #4)

By: Don Winslow

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest… read more

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4. The Trail to Buddha's Mirror (Neal Carey, #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the for… read more

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5. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

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6. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

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  • nonfiction
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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7. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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8. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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9. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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10. Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

By: John Sandford

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest p… read more

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11. Simply Lies (Mickey Gibson, #1)

By: David Baldacci

3.98

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A twisting new psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a danger… read more

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12. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

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13. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more

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"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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14. Matterhorn (Mac Dekker, #1)

By: Christopher Reich

4.26

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this al… read more

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15. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

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16. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

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17. 23 1/2 Lies (Women’s Murder Club, #23.5)

By: James Patterson

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/… read more

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18. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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19. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more

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20. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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21. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

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22. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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23. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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24. Tom Clancy Act of Defiance

By: Brian Andrews

4.65

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a c… read more

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25. The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)

By: John Connolly

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes … read more

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26. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

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27. Deacon King Kong

By: James McBride

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more

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"Friendship was trouble in business."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"You’ve got to be strong to get old."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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28. Waif

By: Samantha Kolesnik

3.55

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

Angela has everything she thought she ever wanted—a successful husband, a lavish house, and a botto… read more

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29. Das Feld

By: Robert Seethaler

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Wenn die Toten auf ihr Leben zurückblicken könnten, wovon würden sie erzählen? Wäre es eine Geschic… read more

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"Ik heb het over echte waanzin. Waanzin die een stropdas draagt en gepoetste schoenen. De waanzin die 's avonds naar de badkamerspiegel knikt en niet meer bijkomt van het lachen, omdat hij weet dat hi…"

-Robert Seethaler, Das Feld

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30. Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice

By: Charles Oldham

3.82

Format: 272 pages, ebook

North Carolina native and lawyer Charles Oldham brings the incredible and unpredictable tale of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. The Midnight Ride

By: Ben Mezrich

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated,  New York Times  bestselling author comes a commercial thriller of an MIT grad… read more

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4.05

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3.70

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