15 must-read nonfiction books like National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways by National Geographic Society

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National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways

By: National Geographic Society

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"This is the book for those who want...to take the slow route...get out of the car and walk around …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways by National Geographic Society , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday

4.15

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aureli… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Amish Community Cookbook: Simply Delicious Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Homes

By: None

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This attractive kitchen-friendly cookbook offers 294 authentic country recipes in a sturdy hardback… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Who needs a ladder when you’ve got a giraffe with an extended neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleani… read more

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4. The Twits

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.97

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They ha… read more

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"Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"No one who is good can ever be ugly."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

5. Christmas at the Cupcake Café (At the Cupcake Café, #2)

By: Jenny Colgan

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Issy Randall, proud owner of The Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn't be happier. Her new business… read more

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6. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more

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7. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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8. A Whisper in the Dark

By: Louisa May Alcott

3.67

Format: 542 pages,

This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre, starting with "A Modern Mephistophele… read more

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9. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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10. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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12. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

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"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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14. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

By: B. Dylan Hollis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
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15. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date, #3)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.77

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Maddie and Theo have two things in common: 1. Alexa is their best friend 2. They hate each ot… read more

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"Everyone is stressed and at a breaking point, and sometimes people say things they don’t mean."

-Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date, #3)

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17. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

By: Sam Heughan

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • adventure
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18. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

By: Ken Jennings

3.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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19. Royal Holiday (The Wedding Date, #4)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposalcomes a dazzling new novel about a sponta… read more

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20. Rogue Justice (Avery Keene, #2)

By: Stacey Abrams

4.02

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took… read more

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21. Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking.… read more

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"If only every workday could be spent in the sunshine with pineapples full of rum. She'd get very little work done, but she'd be in an excellent mood."

-Jasmine Guillory, Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)

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22. Summer Reading

By: Jenn McKinlay

3.48

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making f… read more

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23. Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.53

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious short story diving into Finlay Donovan's partner-in-crime Vero's past. Anyone can s… read more

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24. The Jailhouse Lawyer

By: James Patterson

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. James… read more

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25. Livet - Illustrert

By: Lisa Aisato

4.78

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Aisatos samlede verker. Ingen illustrerer menneskenes frykt, håp og drømmer som Lisa Aisato… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States: 400+ Parks, Monuments, Battlefields, Historic Sites, Scenic Trails, Recreation Areas, and Seashores

By: Mel White

4.34

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

National Geographic’s wide-ranging travel guide to recreation areas, trails, historic sites, nature… read more

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  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • guides
  • nature
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27. National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways

By: National Geographic Society

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"This is the book for those who want...to take the slow route...get out of the car and walk around … read more

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  • nature
  • the united states of america
  • travel
  • adventure
  • collections
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • guides
  • road trip
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28. Fodor's New England: with the Best Fall Foliage Drives & Scenic Road Trips (Full-color Travel Guide Book 32)

By: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

3.87

Format: 1591 pages, Kindle Edition

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budget… read more

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29. God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book)

By: Bruce Hoffman

4.36

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. RVs & Campers for Dummies

By: Christopher L. Hodapp

4.23

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

America has gone wild for RVs!RVs & Campers for Dummies is the book you need before you head for th… read more

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  • travel
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31. The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

By: Ali Velshi

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Edited and introduced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging d… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Andrea Lankford

3.76

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Sam Heughan

4.29

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100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

Ken Jennings

3.30

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Mel White

4.34

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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Tim Alberta

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