Bad Birdwatcher's Companion
By: Simon Barnes
4.21
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
Few books are more intimidating than a conventional field guide. There are simply too many birds in…
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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
2. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
3. The Map That Changed the World
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing th… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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- humor
- audiobook
5. Death and What Comes Next (Discworld, #10.5; Death, #1.5)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.41
Format: 94 pages, ebook
Death and What Comes Next is a Discworld short story by Terry Pratchett. It tells the story of a di… read more
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- humor
6. Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on t… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
7. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- nonfiction
8. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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9. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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10. Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Ye… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
"We're on a mission from Glod."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"It's . . . it's like a legend! It has to happen!"-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"The universe was bad enough without people poking it."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
11. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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12. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
13. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
14. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.99
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more
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- audiobook
"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
15. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.01
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- audiobook
17. The Black Dress
By: Deborah Moggach
3.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pru is on her own. But then, so are plenty of other people. And while the loneliness can be overwhe… read more
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18. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch
By: Bob Mortimer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whiteho… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
19. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more
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- humor
- audiobook
20. The Boy Who Cried Bear (Haven's Rock, #2)
By: Kelley Armstrong
4.14
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In The Boy Who Cried Bear, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong keeps readers on the … read more
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"They are works in progress, just like everything else in life, and we're put here to put in the work and focus on progress, however it turns out."-Kelley Armstrong, The Boy Who Cried Bear (Haven's Rock, #2)
21. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- audiobook
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
22. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
By: Julia Zarankin
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world a… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
23. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
24. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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- audiobook
25. A Song to Drown Rivers
By: Ann Liang
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more
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"Please,"-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers
"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers
26. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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27. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
28. Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
By: Stephen Moss
3.91
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that… read more
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- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
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29. Bad Birdwatcher's Companion
By: Simon Barnes
4.21
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
Few books are more intimidating than a conventional field guide. There are simply too many birds in… read more
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- wildlife
- science
- humor
- natural history
- nonfiction
- reference
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
30. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
31. Gabriel's Moon
By: William Boyd
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more
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