10 must-read nonfiction books like In Italy by Cynthia Zarin

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In Italy

By: Cynthia Zarin

3.44

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four …

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1. Money

By: Martin Amis

3.69

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more

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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"

-Martin Amis, Money

2. In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more

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3. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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4. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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5. Vladivostok Circus

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more

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6. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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7. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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8. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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9. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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10. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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11. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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12. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

By: Alba Donati

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more

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"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

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13. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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14. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

By: Annie Ernaux

4.15

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more

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15. 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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16. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By: Frank Slootman

4.07

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is you… read more

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17. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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18. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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19. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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20. Turbulence

By: David Szalay

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic n… read more

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21. The Road to the City

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more

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22. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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23. Crudo

By: Olivia Laing

3.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more

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"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

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24. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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25. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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26. The Shortest History of Greece

By: James Heneage

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers -- our world has been shaped by the products o… read more

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27. Divisible by Itself and One

By: Kae Tempest

4.17

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

A new poetry collection from Britain's foremost truth-teller, in Divisible by Itself and One Kae Te… read more

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"It's so much easier to know what's best than to do what's best. - Choices "

-Kae Tempest, Divisible by Itself and One

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28. Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal

By: Andreas Viestad

3.98

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world—served o… read more

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29. In Italy

By: Cynthia Zarin

3.44

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four … read more

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30. A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

By: Jon Fosse

3.87

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first t… read more

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31. Ind i en stjerne

By: Puk Qvortrup

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Romanens gravide jegfortæller står i køkkenet i sin lejlighed i Århus. Hendes mand er ude at løbe e… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

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