5 must-read nonfiction books like In My Life: A Music Memoir by Alan Johnson

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In My Life: A Music Memoir

By: Alan Johnson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as …

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1. Solar

By: Ian McEwan

3.28

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his repu… read more

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"As if marriages were a series of corrected drafts."

-Ian McEwan, Solar

"No one can predict which of life’s vexations insomnia will favour."

-Ian McEwan, Solar

"The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution."

-Ian McEwan, Solar

"The revolutionary lone inventor was a fantasy of popular culture – and the Minister"

-Ian McEwan, Solar

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2. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval … read more

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3. Why Did You Lie?

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir , Victoria Cribb

4.20

Format: None pages,

A chilling thriller from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for… read more

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4. Brick Lane

By: Monica Ali

3.49

Format: 182 pages,

A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lanebrings the immigrant milieu of East London to v… read more

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5. Instructions for a Heatwave

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more

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6. Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl

By: Grayson Perry , Wendy Jones

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surfac… read more

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7. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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8. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. The Suspect (Kate Waters, #3)

By: Fiona Barton

3.84

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

The police belonged to another world – the world they saw on the television or in the papers. Not t… read more

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10. 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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11. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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12. 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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13. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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14. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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15. The Mermaid of Black Conch

By: Monique Roffey

3.89

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more

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"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"

-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

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16. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

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17. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

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18. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

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"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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19. 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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20. Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

By: Jo Nesbø

4.27

Format: 531 pages, Hardcover

'Nesbo is one of the best thriller writers on the planet' Daily Express A man like Harry had bet… read more

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21. The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison Book 5)

By: Lynda La Plante

4.27

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying… read more

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22. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

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23. Thrown

By: Sara Cox

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that … read more

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24. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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26. The Counterfeit Candidate (The Reich Trilogy, #1)

By: Brian Klein

4.29

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 30th April, 1945As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn City, Adolf Hitler and Eva Br… read more

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27. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

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28. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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29. In My Life: A Music Memoir

By: Alan Johnson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as … read more

Similar categories in Alan Johnson's In My Life: A Music Memoir book and Alan Johnson's In My Life: A Music Memoir

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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30. Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

4.48

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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31. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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