13 best-selling nonfiction books like Gerry & I by Jacquie Durrell

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Gerry & I

By: Jacquie Durrell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"An enchanting and very funny book" Sunday Times In 1967, Jacquie Durrell decided to describe her …

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1. The Truth About Lorin Jones

By: Alison Lurie

3.66

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This 1988 novel follows Polly Alter, who is researching a book about Lorin Jones, a brilliant paint… read more

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2. Wild Mountain Thyme

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.90

Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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"I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

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3. Toujours Provence

By: Peter Mayle

4.03

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, bea… read more

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"The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or somet…"

-Peter Mayle, Toujours Provence

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4. A Good Year

By: Peter Mayle

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The writer with a claim to being the world's foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intox… read more

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5. Whatever Happened to Margo?

By: Gerald Durrell , Margaret Durrell

4.00

Format: None pages,

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6. Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)

By: Gerald Durrell

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Fami… read more

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7. Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories

By: Gerald Durrell

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

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8. The Lavender Garden

By: Lucinda Riley

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

An aristocratic French family, a legendary chateau, and buried secrets with the power to destroy tw… read more

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9. The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3)

By: Gerald Durrell

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The third volume in the 'Corfu Trilogy' continues the accounts of the young Gerald Durrell during t… read more

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10. Miss Mapp (Lucia, #2)

By: E.F. Benson

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber f… read more

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11. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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12. Prospero's Cell

By: Lawrence Durrell

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu. 'One of Lawrence Durrell's best books … read more

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13. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa

4.17

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more

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"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

14. The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

By: Gerald Durrell

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful se… read more

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15. The Durrells of Corfu

By: Michael Haag

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in part… read more

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16. Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.22

Format: 609 pages, Kindle Edition

Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers retu… read more

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"Are we tryina stop this wedding, Bunsen?"

-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

"Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits."

-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

"Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it."

-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

"I do," said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor."

-Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

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17. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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18. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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19. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.87

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more

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"Two people rarely see the same thing."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

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20. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

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"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

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21. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch

By: Bob Mortimer

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whiteho… read more

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22. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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23. Not Dark Yet (Inspector Banks, #27)

By: Peter Robinson

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the… read more

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24. Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea

By: Ben MacFarlane

4.42

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spen… read more

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25. My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new … read more

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26. She's Up to No Good

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.31

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives in this funny, poignant, and li… read more

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27. Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

By: Camille Pagán

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verg… read more

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"For now, I had the good fortune of more chances to fail and succeed, more love to give and receive - more life. And while I didn’t know what my future held, I would follow my mother’s lead. I would s…"

-Camille Pagán, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

"In third grade, Zoe announced that she thought it was "weird" that I didn't have a job like some of her friends' mothers. Little had changed over the years; she seemed unable to comprehend that willf…"

-Camille Pagán, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

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28. Finding Old Thatch

By: Victoria Connelly

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring new memoir from bestselling author Victoria Connelly. Having left the busy London su… read more

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29. Three James Herriot Classics: All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Things Wise and Wonderful

By: James Herriot

4.78

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

Timeless stories from a country veterinarian about the animals and people that shape life in a slee… read more

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30. Gerry & I

By: Jacquie Durrell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"An enchanting and very funny book" Sunday Times In 1967, Jacquie Durrell decided to describe her … read more

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31. Lawrence Durrell: A Biography

By: Ian S. MacNiven

4.16

Format: 801 pages, Hardcover

Born in India in 1912, the son of an engineer, sent 'home' to school in England (which he christene… read more

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