9 best-selling nonfiction books like Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World by Thomas Christopher Greene

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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

By: Thomas Christopher Greene

4.18

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

“Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn’t steal was the power of stories.” From t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World by Thomas Christopher Greene , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Hour I First Believed

By: Wally Lamb

3.83

Format: 740 pages, Hardcover

Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord wi… read more

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"A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity."

-Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

"sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need."

-Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

"The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs."

-Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

"I do believe that there's life after love, and also that there is love, still, after a life is over."

-Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

2. The Holy Barbarians

By: Lawrence Lipton

3.44

Format: None pages,

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3. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

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4. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

By: Craig Johnson

4.37

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more

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5. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading book and Thomas Christopher Greene's Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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6. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

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  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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8. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories

By: Lore Segal

3.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more

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  • short stories
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9. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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10. The Things We Didn’t Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more

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11. Gather

By: Kenneth M. Cadow

4.43

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recov… read more

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12. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

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13. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Thomas Christopher Greene's Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

  • nonfiction
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14. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Thomas Christopher Greene's Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

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"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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17. Trust Her

By: Flynn Berry

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more

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18. Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

By: Thomas Christopher Greene

4.18

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

“Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn’t steal was the power of stories.” From t… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Christopher Greene's Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World book and Thomas Christopher Greene's Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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19. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

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  • short stories
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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20. Come to the Window

By: Howard Norman

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I. It’s … read more

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21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.90

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4.45

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