10 best-selling nonfiction books like Other Americas by Sebastião Salgado

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Other Americas

By: Sebastião Salgado

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Photographs show the people of Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala, including wed…

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1. Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 193 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—… read more

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2. Birds Without Wings

By: Louis de Bernières

4.16

Format: 554 pages, Paperback

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with … read more

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"The dead can read tears."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"Money has no religion except itself."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder"

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

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3. L'Arminuta

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

4.09

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde così profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome. È que… read more

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"You talk shit because all you’re good for is buying your children day-old bread from the baker"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

"Nel tempo ho perso anche quell'idea confusa di normalita' e oggi davvero ignoro che luogo sia una madre. Mi manca come puo' mancare la salute, un riparo, una certezza. E' un vuoto persistente, che co…"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

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4. Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Wall and Piece

By: Banksy

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridg… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Americans

By: Jack Kerouac , Robert Frank

4.10

Format: 668 pages,

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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8. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

By: Luis Sepúlveda

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous n… read more

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10. If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more

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11. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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12. Indian Horse

By: Richard Wagamese

4.42

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more

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"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"

-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

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13. A Man Without a Country

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more

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14. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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15. Choke

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.25

Format: None pages,

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more

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16. Le otto montagne

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more

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17. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

18. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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19. Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more

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20. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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21. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

By: Sally Mann

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Man… read more

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22. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more

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23. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

24. Silk

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more

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25. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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26. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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27. Viejas historias de Castilla la Vieja

By: Miguel Delibes

3.83

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

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28. Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

By: Gregory Heisler

4.62

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most re… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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29. Other Americas

By: Sebastião Salgado

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Photographs show the people of Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala, including wed… read more

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30. Sebastio Salgado: Other Americas

By: Claude Nori

4.24

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

The first edition of Sebastião Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contre… read more

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31. Photographs

By: Robert Capa

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Robert Photographs is a major retrospective of one of the century’s greatest photographers. Drawin… read more

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4.62

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3.61

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