7 must-read nonfiction books like Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols by David McLaughlin

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Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols

By: David McLaughlin

3.63

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

You love Christmas carols—now learn the “story behind the story” for 40 of the best-known songs of …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols by David McLaughlin , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

By: Dana K. White

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Bring your home out of the mess it’s in and learn how to keep it under control. “The dirty littl… read more

Similar categories in Dana K. White's How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets book and David McLaughlin's Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols

  • nonfiction
"I once thought of habits as things I do without thinking. Like stealing candy out of my kid’s Halloween bucket on November 1. A minute ago, I was at my computer, and now I’m standing in a different r…"

-Dana K. White, How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

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2. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

By: Robin Sloan

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more

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3. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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4. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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5. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

By: Rachel DeLoache Williams

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delv… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Naturalist's Daughter

By: Tea Cooper

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

1808 Agnes Banks, NSW Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent natur… read more

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7. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading book and David McLaughlin's Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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8. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes

3.85

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru… read more

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"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"I'm afraid I was buried in thought. Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'...."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

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9. Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome

By: Will Bulsiewicz

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller A bold new plant-based… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

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"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."

-Adrian McKinty, The Island

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11. Outside

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer"( The Sunday Times… read more

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12. The Perfect Mother

By: Aimee Molloy

3.53

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connecte… read more

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13. The Clinic

By: Cate Quinn

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic … read more

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14. House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more

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15. An Honest Lie

By: Tarryn Fisher

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“I’m going to kill her. You’d better come if you want to save her.” Lorraine—“Rainy”—lives at th… read more

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"You look like you need to be kissed"

-Tarryn Fisher, An Honest Lie

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16. What Have You Done?

By: Shari Lapena

3.84

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The new binge-worthy novel from the “queen of the one-sit read,” and New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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17. Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols

By: David McLaughlin

3.63

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

You love Christmas carols—now learn the “story behind the story” for 40 of the best-known songs of … read more

Similar categories in David McLaughlin's Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols book and David McLaughlin's Silent Night: The Stories Behind 40 Beloved Christmas Carols

  • christmas
  • history
  • holiday
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Alex Finlay

3.79

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Ruth Ware

3.68

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4.04

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