13 Best nonfiction books like Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind by Steve Hannah

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Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind

By: Steve Hannah

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Years ago, Steve Hannah’s chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip.…

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1. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more

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"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

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2. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

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3. The Persian Pickle Club

By: Sandra Dallas

4.26

Format: 331 pages,

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and t… read more

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4. Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State

By: Thomas Purnell , Eric Raimy , Joseph Salmons

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diver… read more

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5. Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper… read more

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6. Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting

By: Michael Perry

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

"Beneath the flannel surface of this deer-hunting, truck-loving Badger is the soul of a poet." --Ch… read more

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7. Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

By: Michael Perry

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"Somewhere between Garrison Keillor's idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sincl… read more

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8. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

By: Richard Grant

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 and 2016 (The Clar… read more

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9. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.82

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more

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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

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10. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

Cover of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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12. 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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13. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

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"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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14. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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15. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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16. El enigma de la habitación 622

By: Joël Dicker

3.89

Format: 696 pages, Paperback

Una noche de diciembre, un cadáver yace en el suelo de la habitación 622 del Palace de Verbier, un … read more

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"El amor no es tanto alquimia como obra del tiempo. El amor es sobre todo esfuerzo. Te deseo que te esfuerces lo bastante para amar y que te amen."

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas"

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas."

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas. Pues la vida, igu…"

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

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17. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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18. Unnatural Death (Kay Scarpetta, #27)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief med… read more

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19. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

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"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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20. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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21. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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22. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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23. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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24. The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem

By: Matthew Batt

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables … read more

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25. The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

By: Jane Pek

3.50

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landsca… read more

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"If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't yet understand."

-Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

Cover of A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1) by Abby Collette

26. A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1)

By: Abby Collette

3.23

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast o… read more

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27. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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28. Poet Warrior: A Memoir

By: Joy Harjo

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more

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"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"

-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir

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29. The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

By: Charlie Berens

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and jou… read more

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30. One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival

By: Donald Antrim

3.79

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.… read more

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Cover of Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind by Steve Hannah

31. Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind

By: Steve Hannah

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Years ago, Steve Hannah’s chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip.… read more

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