8 Best nonfiction books like Rummage by Emily Cockayne

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Rummage

By: Emily Cockayne

3.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems f…

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1. The Glass Palace

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more

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2. The Bees

By: Laline Paull

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The Handmaid's Talemeets The Hunger Gamesin this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest c… read more

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3. DallerGut Dream Department Store

By: Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies h… read more

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  • adult
"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

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4. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • adult
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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5. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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6. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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7. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • adult
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8. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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10. The Bookshop

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.28

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more

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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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11. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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13. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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14. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly “… read more

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  • adult
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15. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

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  • adult
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

16. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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17. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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18. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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19. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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  • adult
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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20. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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21. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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22. The Woman Who Took a Chance

By: Fiona Gibson

3.95

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Jen. Flight attendant. Mum to a grown-up daughter. Permanently single. Age: Fifty (gulp) … read more

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23. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • adult
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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24. The Glass House

By: Eve Chase

3.98

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more

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  • adult
"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

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25. Burnt Sugar

By: Avni Doshi

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more

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  • adult
"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"

-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

Cover of The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes

26. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

By: Nick Hayes

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • environment
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27. The Herd

By: Emily Edwards

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child. Elizabeth and Bryony are polar … read more

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  • adult
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28. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

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  • adult
"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

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29. Oligarchy

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It’s already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a… read more

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30. Rummage

By: Emily Cockayne

3.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems f… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • sociology
  • environment

13 must-read adult books like Rummage by Emily Cockayne

Transform Your Habits

DallerGut Dream Department Store

Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

Richard Coles

3.32

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

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A Spoonful Of Murder (Liz, Pat and Thelma, #1)

J.M. Hall

3.18

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

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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Rob Rinder

4.24

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