7 must-read nonfiction books like Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

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Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection …

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1. Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

By: Loretta Graziano Breuning

4.03

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A revolutionary approach to enhancing your happiness level! Get ready to boost your happiness in j… read more

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"When dopamine dips, your unhappy chemicals get your attention. You get that “do something"

-Loretta Graziano Breuning, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

"A mouse who fails to get the cheese tries again without kicking herself for being an idiot."

-Loretta Graziano Breuning, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

"CONSIDER THIS When things do go wrong, ask yourself whether you could have prevented it by being unhappy."

-Loretta Graziano Breuning, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

"Как бы не строились нейронные связи в мозге, вы не ощущаете их как многочисленные отростки, похожие на щупальца осьминога. Вы ощущаете эти связи, как истину."

-Loretta Graziano Breuning, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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4. When Nietzsche Wept

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis. The … read more

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5. La hija del Este

By: Clara Usón

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Ana, una joven inteligente, risuena y sensible, mantiene una entranable relacion con su padre. Su h… read more

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6. Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne , Pablo Marcos , Malvina G. Vogel , None , Marian Leighton

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An eccentric Englishman accepts a challenge to circle the globe with unprecedented speed. Exotic lo… read more

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7. Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more

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8. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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9. The Septembers of Shiraz

By: Dalia Sofer

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused… read more

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10. Huzursuzluk

By: None

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Merhamet zulmun merhemi olamaz! Istanbul'un kargasasi icinde siradan bir yasam suren Ibrahim, cocuk… read more

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11. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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12. Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

By: A.E. Hotchner

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital… read more

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13. My Autobiography

By: Charlie Chaplin

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Born into a theatrical family, Charlie Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to b… read more

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14. The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time

By: David H. Lowenherz

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age o… read more

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15. 'Tis The Season (Virgin River, #7.5 & 10.5)

By: Robyn Carr

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Together for the first time in one volume, two classic holiday stories--plus a bonus novella!--from… read more

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16. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more

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"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

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17. Madame Hayat

By: Ahmet Altan

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fazil, le jeune narrateur de ce livre, part faire des études de lettres loin de chez lui. Devenu bo… read more

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18. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

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19. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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20. Simon

By: Narine Abgaryan

4.50

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Un secol de istorie armeană, văzut prin prisma femeilor dintr-un orășel de munte, se desfășoară în … read more

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"Širdis gyva tol, kol nepraanda gebėjimo verkti."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"Sėkmei reikia tik dviejų dalykų: atkaklumo ir meilės darbui, kurį dirbi."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"Եվ մի տեսակ շատ ինքնահավան է, ասես ջրափոսի միջի բենզինի հետք լինի՝ գեղեցիկ և անիմաստ։"

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

"{...} tuturor, absolut tuturor ne e dat să plătim un preț pe măsura faptelor noastre."

-Narine Abgaryan, Simon

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21. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

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"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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22. Love and Ruin

By: Paula McLain

3.86

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Ma… read more

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"For better for for worse I was born a traveler, wanting to go everywhere and see everything."

-Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

"...But I'm not sure I believe in wars anymore. They only make ghosts and they don't change anything."

-Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

"This wasn't the France I knew, which had always been as much about swimming in the sea as about anything else, about languorous holiday sunshine and whole days spent drinking wine and staring up at t…"

-Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

"Real writing, I was beginning to realize, was more like laying bricks than waiting for lightning to strike. It was painstaking. It was manual labor. And sometimes, sometimes if you kept putting the b…"

-Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

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23. Ce vrăji a mai făcut pisica mea

By: Radu Paraschivescu

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

„Ultimele cercetări în domeniu arată că principala trăsătură a pisicii e arta de-a suscita simpatie… read more

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24. The Riviera House

By: Natasha Lester

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during W… read more

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25. And We Rise

By: Erica Martin

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s… read more

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"history has become a beautiful American lie Overseers rewrite it and always deny people the right to know the ugly truth only tell part of it especially to the youth peace peace peace they always ins…"

-Erica Martin, And We Rise

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26. Hotel Portofino (Hotel Portofino, #1)

By: J.P. O'Connell

3.32

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown ... welcome to Hotel Portofino, where romance, revelry, and… read more

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27. Theodoros

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

4.50

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

BESTSELLER GAUDEAMUS 2022 „O scriitură unică la nivel mondial.“ — Die Zeit „N-am scris niciod… read more

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28. The Clockwork Girl

By: Anna Mazzola

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the… read more

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29. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.48

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is f… read more

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"Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance."

-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

"One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the…"

-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

"Invisible Facebook and Google algorithms steer you toward content you agree with, and nonconforming voices stay silent for fear of being flamed or trolled or unfriended. The result is a silo in which…"

-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

"The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. They’re the other world-dominating animals that evolution has produced, and their…"

-Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

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30. Garoafe la bordel

By: Radu Paraschivescu

3.85

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

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31. Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection … read more

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12 best-selling fiction books like The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Agent

Kelly Rimmer

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Little Wartime Library

Kate Thompson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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Kristin Harmel

4.25

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3.32

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