8 Top nonfiction books like With the Grain by Christian Becksvoort

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With the Grain

By: Christian Becksvoort

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A little knowledge about trees goes a long way toward improving your woodworking. You don’t need…

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1. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"Alex said. “This is Medina Station under occupation by a bunch of splinter Martian military expats. It’s not Baltimore."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

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2. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.27

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more

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"Partners,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Trashy people puke,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Tell me everything it explains,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

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3. By Hand & Eye

By: George R. Walker , Jim Tolpin

4.25

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

“By Hand & Eye” is a deep dive into the world of history, architecture and design. And the authors … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
  • design
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4. Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her pl… read more

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5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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7. The Anarchist's Tool Chest

By: Christopher Schwarz

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
  • design

8. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)

By: George R.R. Martin , Gary Gianni

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdom… read more

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9. The Son

By: Philipp Meyer

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow… read more

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10. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

By: Dan Simmons

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more

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11. The Silmarillion

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more

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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

12. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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13. Roverandom

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Wayne G. Hammond , Christina Scull

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A classic children's story by the author of The Hobbit Rover should never have bitten the wizard's … read more

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14. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

15. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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16. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

17. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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18. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

19. American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

By: None

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's Second Nature, this fascinating and unique histori… read more

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20. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

By: Frank Herbert

3.86

Format: 669 pages, Paperback

Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

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21. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

By: Frank Herbert

3.88

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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"But you invite ..."

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"In the wrong hands,"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"Only fools prefer the past!"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"For what do you hunger, Lord?"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

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22. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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23. Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.54

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Wi… read more

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"Let's solve the extinction level threat first. Then we can all go back to killing each other at a civilized pace."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

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24. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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25. Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adv… read more

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"What does a mirror look at?"

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"I am not the river I am the net."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

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26. Memory's Legion

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more

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27. Sharpen This

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.65

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

Sharpening is not a sport. If you want to be a better woodworker, you need to learn to sharpen. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
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28. Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction

By: Gary Rogowski

3.85

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
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29. Sam Maloof, Woodworker

By: Sam Maloof

4.54

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

What if Picasso had been a chair maker and Stravinsky a designer of tables? What would have been th… read more

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  • design
  • woodwork
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30. With the Grain

By: Christian Becksvoort

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A little knowledge about trees goes a long way toward improving your woodworking. You don’t need… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • woodwork
  • design

31. The Anarchist Work Bench

By: Christopher Schwarz

4.62

Format: 323 pages, ebook

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  • woodwork

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By Hand & Eye

George R. Walker , Jim Tolpin

4.25

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The Anarchist's Tool Chest

Christopher Schwarz

5.00

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4.65

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3.85

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Jack Kerouac

3.61

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4.37

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Ernest Hemingway

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