9 Top nonfiction books like Joined: A bench guide to furniture joinery by Joshua A. Klein

Joined: A bench guide to furniture joinery

By: Joshua A. Klein

4.71

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

A heavily illustrated book on the types of joinery used to shape wood into lasting furniture.

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Cover of The Minimalist Woodworker: Essential Tools and Smart Shop Ideas for Building with Less by Vic Tesolin

1. The Minimalist Woodworker: Essential Tools and Smart Shop Ideas for Building with Less

By: Vic Tesolin

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Woodworking is thriving in the hands-on, DIY, maker world we currently live in. Yet, for it’s incre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
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2. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more

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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"

-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)

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3. The Village Carpenter

By: Walter Rose

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Walter Rose was a master carpenter and the son and grandson of master carpenters. He writes of a vi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
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4. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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5. Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop

By: Nick Offerman

4.31

Format: None pages,

After two New York Timesbestsellers, Nick Offerman returns with the subject for which he's known be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
Cover of Made by Hand: Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop by Tom Fidgen

6. Made by Hand: Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop

By: Tom Fidgen

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
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7. The Joiner and Cabinet Maker: His Work and Its Principles

By: Anonymous , Christopher Schwarz , Joel Moskowitz

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

"The Joiner and Cabinet Maker" is a huge book - with more than 370 pages of detailed handtool instr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork

8. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

By: Matthew B. Crawford

4.00

Format: None pages,

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9. The New Traditional Woodworker: From Tool Set to Skill Set to Mind Set

By: Jim Tolpin

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Working Wood, Not Machining It If you're more interested in working with wood rather than machining… read more

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10. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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11. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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12. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer

4.53

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Hurry is violence on the soul."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

13. The Stick Chair Book

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.83

Format: 622 pages, Hardcover

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  • woodwork
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14. The Anarchist's Workbench

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.62

Format: 323 pages, ebook

“The Anarchist’s Workbench” is – on the one hand – a detailed plan for a simple workbench that can … read more

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  • woodwork

15. Joined: A bench guide to furniture joinery

By: Joshua A. Klein

4.71

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

A heavily illustrated book on the types of joinery used to shape wood into lasting furniture. read more

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  • woodwork

16. Ingenious Mechanicks

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork

9 must-read woodwork books like Joined: A bench guide to furniture joinery by Joshua A. Klein

Transform Your Habits

The Minimalist Woodworker: Essential Tools and Smart Shop Ideas for Building with Less

Vic Tesolin

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Village Carpenter

Walter Rose

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop

Nick Offerman

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Made by Hand: Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop

Tom Fidgen

4.29

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8 must-read woodwork books like The Stick Chair Book by Christopher Schwarz

Transform Your Habits

Chairmaker's Notebook

Peter Galbert

4.59

Transform Your Habits

The Joiner and Cabinet Maker: His Work and Its Principles

Anonymous , Christopher Schwarz , Joel Moskowitz

3.94

The Stick Chair Book

Christopher Schwarz

4.83

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The Essential Woodworker: Skills, Tools and Methods

Robert Wearing

4.39

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