7 best-selling nonfiction books like A Countryman's Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell

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A Countryman's Winter Notebook

By: Adrian Bell

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

‘Bell writes always of the ordinary things, of the seasons, of memories, of rain and laughter. Gent…

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Cover of The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1) by Agatha Christie

1. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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2. Jane Austen at Home

By: Lucy Worsley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.20

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more

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"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

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4. Between the Woods and the Water

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts The journey that Patrick Le… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

5. Greengates

By: R.C. Sherriff

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

A man retires from his job but finds that never were truer words said than 'for better, for worse b… read more

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6. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

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7. Le Petit Nicolas

By: René Goscinny , Jean-Jacques Sempé

4.14

Format: 167 pages, Mass Market Paperback

La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les ma… read more

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8. Lark Rise to Candleford

By: Richard Mabey , Flora Thompson

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Gre… read more

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9. Ordeal by Innocence

By: Agatha Christie

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in… read more

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10. A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2)

By: Anthony Powell

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.… read more

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11. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1)

By: Anthony Powell

3.07

Format: None pages,

Who is Widmerpool? The question that is to dog Nicholas Jenkins crystallizes as he sees the gawky f… read more

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12. A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Louisa May Alcott's enchanting Christmas stories, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfec… read more

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13. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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14. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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Cover of Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde

15. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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16. 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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Cover of The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks

17. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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18. Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places

By: Robert Macfarlane

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ghostways brings two of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane’s eeriest works of impressionistic na… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • essays
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19. The Cherry Tree

By: Daisaku Ikeda

4.18

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

An Asian mother ties an explanation of family history to a poetic lesson on the changing seasons wh… read more

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20. A Countryman's Winter Notebook

By: Adrian Bell

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

‘Bell writes always of the ordinary things, of the seasons, of memories, of rain and laughter. Gent… read more

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  • nature
  • essays

7 Best british literature books like A Countryman's Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

Agatha Christie

3.85

Transform Your Habits

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P.G. Wodehouse

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Greengates

R.C. Sherriff

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Go-Between

Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

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20 best-selling fiction books like Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Mystery Writer

Sulari Gentill

3.42

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