9 Best nonfiction books like Bach Cello Suites by Steven Isserlis

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Bach Cello Suites

By: Steven Isserlis

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bach's six Cello Suites are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music litera…

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1. Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed … read more

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"Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

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2. 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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3. To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.52

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more

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"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

4. A Crime in Holland (Maigret #8)

By: Georges Simenon , Siân Reynolds

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-… read more

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5. The Museum of Innocence

By: Orhan Pamuk , Maureen Freely , None

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his firs… read more

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6. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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7. Daphnis and Chloe

By: Paul Turner , Longus

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more

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8. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

By: Christoph Wolff

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the compos… read more

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9. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

10. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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11. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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12. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

13. Sepulchre (Languedoc, #2)

By: Kate Mosse

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

I n 1891, young Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-B… read more

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14. The Saint-Fiacre Affair: Inspector Maigret #13

By: Georges Simenon

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

When an ominous note predicting the time and place of a death finds its way to Maigret's desk in Pa… read more

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15. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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16. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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17. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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18. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By: Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk

19. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

By: Jeremy Denk

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."

-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

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20. Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more

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"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"

-William Boyd, Trio

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21. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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22. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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23. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

By: Geoff Dyer

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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24. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

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25. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

By: Hilary Mantel

4.33

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more

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"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"

-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"

-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

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26. The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more

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  • music
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27. The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

By: Tom Higham

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Bach Cello Suites

By: Steven Isserlis

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bach's six Cello Suites are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music litera… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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29. The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more

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30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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31. Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians: Revisited by Steven Isserlis

By: Robert Schumann

3.94

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

Jeremy Denk

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer

3.19

Transform Your Habits

The Great Passion

James Runcie

3.88

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On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

3.59

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Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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