8 Top nonfiction books like A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott

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A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.14

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated autho…

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1. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

By: Alice Steinbach

3.50

Format: None pages,

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbac… read more

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3. Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines

By: Samantha Hahn

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits… read more

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4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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6. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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7. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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8. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

By: Benjamin Taylor

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more

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12. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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13. Dayswork

By: Chris Bachelder

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more

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14. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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15. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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16. An Indiscreet Princess

By: Georgie Blalock

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl and The Last Debutantes comes a brilliant novel… read more

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17. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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18. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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19. Code Name Edelweiss

By: Stephanie Landsem

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

"What I am looking for--what I desperately need, Mrs. Weiss--is a spy."Adolf Hitler is still a dist… read more

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"If not us, who? If not now, when? It must be us, and it must be now. I would fight this war. I would not be silent!"

-Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

"Wilhelm Otto held out his hand as the orchestra started a Strauss waltz. Did the man never speak when a look would do? I considered his outstretched hand with trepidation, remembering weeping in his …"

-Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

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20. A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.14

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

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Amy Tan

4.14

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