9 Best nonfiction books like Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Dead In The Water (Kate Shugak, #3)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, 's office. Now she's gone back to… read more

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2. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Nancy Milford

3.61

Format: 192 pages,

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edn… read more

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  • poetry
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that m… read more

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4. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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5. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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6. The Death of the Heart

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more

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7. An Unnecessary Woman

By: Rabih Alameddine

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of Beirut's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The … read more

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8. Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more

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9. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • poetry
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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11. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

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"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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12. Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more

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  • nonfiction
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

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13. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By: Chrysta Bilton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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14. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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15. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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16. The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

By: Claudia Gray

3.69

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A summer house party turns into a whodunit when Mr. Wickham, one of literature’s most notorious vil… read more

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"What I believed Willoughby to be, you truly are."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"What a relief - he was referring only to the murder."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so... exciting."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"Doing what is right may be painful to us," she said, "but doing what is painful to others is rarely right."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

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17. Bookish People

By: Susan Coll

2.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer… read more

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18. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • poetry
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19. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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20. Ocean State

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully wr… read more

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21. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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22. Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holi… read more

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23. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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24. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

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25. Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

By: Laura Thompson

3.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses , a fascinating look at the… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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26. The Next Thing You Know

By: Jessica Strawser

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A musician facing the untimely end of his career. An end-of-life doula with everything, and nothing… read more

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27. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

By: Reid Mitenbuler

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greates… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. Dear Little Corpses (Josephine Tey, #10)

By: Nicola Upson

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It takes a village to bury a child.1 September, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Bri… read more

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29. Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

By: Hopwood DePree

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story--with charm and humor in abundance--about a Los Ange… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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30. Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. … read more

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