6 Top nonfiction books like Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar by Keriann McGoogan

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Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar

By: Keriann McGoogan

3.96

Format: 240 pages, ebook

This inspiring memoir of one woman's experience in the field is an exotic adventure story, a surpri…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar by Keriann McGoogan , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Death of Bunny Munro

By: Nick Cave

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Set adrift by his wife's sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does th… read more

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2. The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

By: Ken Follett , Rosalía Vázquez

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bes… read more

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3. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)

By: Alan Bradley

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1950s English bucolic Bishop's Lacy, narrator Flavia de Luce 11, has a passion for chemistry and… read more

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4. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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5. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

6. The Moon's a Balloon

By: David Niven

3.00

Format: None pages,

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7. The Founding (The Morland Dynasty, #1)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

1434: Wars of the Roses; Richard III Seeking power and prestige; grim, ambitious Yorkshireman Edwar… read more

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8. The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)

By: M.W. Craven

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves… read more

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9. Summer of '69

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything chang… read more

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"The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Summer of '69

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10. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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11. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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12. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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13. The Odyssey

By: Lara Williams

3.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire o… read more

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"I guess it should have made me more protective of myself or something. More cautious with what I give away. But I actually do the opposite. Give people more than what they ask for. To get it over wit…"

-Lara Williams, The Odyssey

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14. No. 23 Burlington Square

By: Jenni Keer

4.21

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique ti… read more

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15. This Charming Man (Stranger Times, #2)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.36

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping u… read more

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16. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

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17. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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19. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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  • nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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20. The Curator (Washington Poe, #3)

By: M.W. Craven

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange mess… read more

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21. Black Summer (Washington Poe, #2)

By: M.W. Craven

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

After The Puppet Show, a new storm is coming . . . Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Ch… read more

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"Thinking you know what's happening is the surest sign you don't."

-M.W. Craven, Black Summer (Washington Poe, #2)

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22. Relight My Fire (Stranger Times, #4)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.48

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she… read more

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23. One Enchanted Evening (Buckingham #1)

By: Anton du Beke

3.92

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times bestseller! ' Downton with dance, perfect!' Santa Montefiore Prepare to be s… read more

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24. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more

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25. Dead Ground (Washington Poe, #4)

By: M.W. Craven

4.36

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated crof… read more

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26. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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27. The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5)

By: M.W. Craven

4.55

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .' Detective Serge… read more

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28. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

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29. The Chelsea Girls

By: Fiona Davis

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright li… read more

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"And many of you bought the lies ... You didn't question them. You didn't fight back. You let this happen ... This is how a society is corrupted, from the inside out. We must make a promise to not eve…"

-Fiona Davis, The Chelsea Girls

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30. The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present

By: Alison Richard

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating th… read more

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  • africa
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar by Keriann McGoogan

31. Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar

By: Keriann McGoogan

3.96

Format: 240 pages, ebook

This inspiring memoir of one woman's experience in the field is an exotic adventure story, a surpri… read more

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  • africa
  • madagascar
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

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