5 Top nonfiction books like David Gentleman's London by David Gentleman

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David Gentleman's London

By: David Gentleman

4.39

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful book is a portrait of two Londons. One is a familiar and majestic capital; the other…

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Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

1. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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2. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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3. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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4. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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5. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

By: Alan Rickman

3.58

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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6. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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7. Pokko and the Drum

By: Matthew Forsythe

4.39

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From E.B. White Read Aloud honor artist Matthew Forsythe comes a picture book about a magical drum,… read more

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8. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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9. Make Meatballs Sing: The Life and Art of Corita Kent

By: Matthew Burgess

4.45

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Deeply influenced by her religious beliefs and fired up by the social justice causes of her day, ar… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Burgess's Make Meatballs Sing: The Life and Art of Corita Kent book and David Gentleman's David Gentleman's London

  • art
  • nonfiction
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10. Tove Jansson (The Illustrators)

By: Paul Gravett

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

This book provides fresh insight into and a deep appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson (… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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11. David Gentleman's London

By: David Gentleman

4.39

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful book is a portrait of two Londons. One is a familiar and majestic capital; the other… read more

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  • travel
  • art
  • nonfiction

16 Top fiction books like The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen

Transform Your Habits

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Vashti Harrison

4.66

Transform Your Habits

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Puppets of Spelhorst

Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Truth About Dragons

Julie Leung

4.38

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