5 must-read nonfiction books like Land by Antony Gormley

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Land

By: Antony Gormley

4.03

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Landmark Trust commissioned an installation from Antony…

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1. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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2. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

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3. Needful Things

By: Stephen King

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store fin… read more

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4. The Mothers

By: Brit Bennett

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, … read more

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5. Ride on Rapunzel: Fairytales for Feminists

By: Maeve Binchy , Zoë Fairbairns , None , None , None , None

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of the very best of feminist fairytales including such authors as Maeve Binchey, Zoe F… read more

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6. A Winter Book

By: Tove Jansson

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revela… read more

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7. Corvus: A Life with Birds

By: Esther Woolfson

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated wit… read more

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8. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

By: Natasha Pulley

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more

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9. The Near Witch (The Near Witch, #1)

By: Victoria Schwab

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you mus… read more

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10. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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11. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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12. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

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"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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13. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

By: Pat Barker

3.90

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more

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"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

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14. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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15. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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16. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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17. Summerwater

By: Sarah Moss

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more

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18. The Doll Factory

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more

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"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"

-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

Cover of The Bay (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #3) by L.J. Ross

19. The Bay (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #3)

By: L.J. Ross

4.39

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

SECRETS NEVER STAY BURIED FOR LONG... In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergean… read more

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20. The Fell

By: Sarah Moss

3.63

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more

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"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."

-Sarah Moss, The Fell

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21. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

Cover of Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) by Juno  Dawson

22. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)

By: Juno Dawson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more

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23. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Cover of The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) by Juno  Dawson

24. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)

By: Juno Dawson

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more

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25. Sixteen Souls

By: Rosie Talbot

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have gli… read more

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26. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

By: Ali Smith

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more

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"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

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27. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

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28. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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29. Land

By: Antony Gormley

4.03

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Landmark Trust commissioned an installation from Antony… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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30. This Party of the Soft Things

By: Nhatt Nichols

4.59

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"The forest as history's mobius strip / pressing collectively / daydreaming in geological time // I… read more

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Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

31. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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