13 must-read nonfiction books like The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree

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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Andrew Pettegree

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greates…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Ashenden

By: W. Somerset Maugham , None

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living… read more

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"-Hay cierta elegancia en malgastar el tiempo -repuso Ashenden-. Cualquier cretino es capaz de despilfarrar dinero, pero cuando uno gasta su propio tiempo tiene el placer de tirar una cosa que no tien…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"Los hechos son narradores pobres. Empienzan la historia por azar, generalmente mucho antes del principio, divagan inconsecuentes y decaen, dejando posibles finales colgados y sin conclusión. Trabajan…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"R. terminó su relato y miró a Ashenden, dejando escapar un relámpago por la ranura de sus ojos medio cerrados. -Es novelesco, ¿no le parece? -preguntó. -¿Y me dice usted que eso ha ocurrido hace poco…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel." R. smiled with his pale blue eyes. "I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-schoo…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

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2. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

By: Geoffrey Parker

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 17th century
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3. Gösta Berling's Saga

By: Selma Lagerlöf , Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , Lillie Tudeer

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof assured her place in Swedish le… read more

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4. Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind

By: David J. Linden

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnecte… read more

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5. Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

By: Russell Shorto

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential & con… read more

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6. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

By: Grant Snider

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
"A book closed is just a block of paper."

-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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7. Paul: A Biography

By: N.T. Wright

4.34

Format: 480 pages, ebook

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

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"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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9. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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10. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. De kapperszoon

By: Gerbrand Bakker

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Multi–award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker’s phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoid… read more

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12. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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  • books about books
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13. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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14. The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.69

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more

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15. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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16. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

By: Ritchie Robertson

4.27

Format: 985 pages, Hardcover

This magisterial history—sure to become the definitive work on the subject—recasts the Enlightenmen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
"When different religion managed to coexist peacefully for a long period, the visibility of other religion tended to weaken one's conviction of the unique excellence of one's own."

-Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

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17. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

By: Roland Allen

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW STATESMAN 'BEST BOOK OF 2023'A SPECTATOR 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 20… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By: Gary Gerstle

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Culture: The surprising connections and influences between civilisations.

By: Martin Puchner

4.12

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Andrew Pettegree

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greates… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Pettegree's The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age book and Andrew Pettegree's The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

  • history
  • 17th century
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • books about books
  • holland
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21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • books about books

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4.34

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Christopher Clark

4.18

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4.32

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