18 must-read nonfiction books like The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years by Alice E. Olsson Johan Anderberg

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The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years

By: Alice E. Olsson Johan Anderberg

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made dur…

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1. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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2. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly t… read more

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3. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Amsterdam

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more

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5. Wimmera

By: Mark Brandi

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In the long, hot summer of 1989, Ben and Fab are best friends. Growing up in a small country town, … read more

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6. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)

By: Robyn Davidson

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more

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7. Passage of Arms

By: Eric Ambler

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when th… read more

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8. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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9. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

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11. 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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  • politics
  • 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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12. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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13. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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14. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

By: Scott Jurek

4.22

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run , a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
"It was just numbers. I knew I could outrun numbers."

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

"AT legend has it that Pennsylvania hiking clubs and trail crews are proud of their state's nickname of Rocksylvania and don't remove rocks from the trail. In fact, some people claim they actually dum…"

-Scott Jurek, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

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15. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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17. Winchelsea

By: Alex Preston

3.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happi… read more

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18. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By: Douglas Murray

4.21

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Transcription

By: Kate Atkinson

3.49

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. S… read more

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"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"This was how people disappeared from history, wasn't it? They weren't erased, they were explained away."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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20. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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21. Lisa

By: Lisa Curry

4.25

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple … read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

By: Alina Chan

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how… read more

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  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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23. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

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25. 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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26. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
Cover of An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin

27. An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By: Konstantin Kisin

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For all of the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with fun… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

By: Nigel Biggar

3.99

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam

By: Simon Webb

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Explains the role of the newly independent United States in putting an end to the trade in European… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Flocken: Berättelsen om hur Sverige valde väg under pandemin

By: Johan Anderberg

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

”Med så många smittade som nu finns i Sverige så kommer smittspridning att ske. Vårt samhälle är in… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years

By: Alice E. Olsson Johan Anderberg

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made dur… read more

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  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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