5 must-read nonfiction books like Fibonacci’s Rabbits: And 49 Other Discoveries That Revolutionised Mathematics by Adam Hart-Davis

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Fibonacci’s Rabbits: And 49 Other Discoveries That Revolutionised Mathematics

By: Adam Hart-Davis

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A lucid exploration of the story of mathematics through the examination of 50 of its greatest disco…

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1. Corpus (Tom Wilde #1)

By: Rory Clements

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1936: Eine Mordserie erschüttert Cambridge. Internationale Kräfte kämpfen um Einfluss. Der nächste … read more

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2. A Long Way Down

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts… read more

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"The fuck?"

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"i love god soo much, but he like butt raping."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"I can handle the pain, it's the hope that kills me."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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3. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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4. Dragon Teeth

By: Michael Crichton

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more

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5. Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more

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"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

6. A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more

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7. Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving… read more

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8. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more

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10. False Impression

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it ta… read more

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11. The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant, #6)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

The Hanging Tree was the Tyburn gallows which stood where Marble Arch stands today. Oxford Street w… read more

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12. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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13. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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14. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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15. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

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17. Hidden in Plain Sight (William Warwick, #2)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.03

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along wit… read more

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18. The Second Sleep

By: Robert Harris

3.49

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more

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19. Turn a Blind Eye (William Warwick, #3)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.17

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Turn a Blind Eye is the third installment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warw… read more

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20. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)

By: Baoshu

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more

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21. Fibonacci’s Rabbits: And 49 Other Discoveries That Revolutionised Mathematics

By: Adam Hart-Davis

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A lucid exploration of the story of mathematics through the examination of 50 of its greatest disco… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

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