17 must-read nonfiction books like Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jane Barsby

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Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Jane Barsby

3.82

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people. Culture Smart! Kenya  provides a cultural bridge …

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1. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams

4.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face … read more

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"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

"Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu"

-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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2. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

By: Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since its original release, The First 90 Dayshas become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

By: Denise Kiernan

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of … read more

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4. Flower Net (Red Princess, #1)

By: Lisa See

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

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5. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By: Michael Pollan

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Tanzania - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture

By: Quintin Winks

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • africa
  • nonfiction
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7. Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

By: Kennedy Odede , Jessica Posner

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration spar… read more

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  • kenya
  • africa
  • nonfiction

8. The Murder Stone

By: Charles Todd

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather di… read more

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9. Dust

By: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya--a story of power and dec… read more

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10. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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11. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

12. Out of Africa

By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more

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13. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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15. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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17. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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18. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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19. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Paris Assignment

By: Rhys Bowen

4.33

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A courageous wife, mother, and resister confronts the devastation of World War II in a heartbreakin… read more

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21. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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22. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Finding Dorothy

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.18

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspi… read more

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24. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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25. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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26. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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27. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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28. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Cover of Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor

29. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

By: Tade Thompson

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by… read more

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  • africa
"It is never a good idea to cause pain to angels."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"What’s a quantum extrapolator?’ I ask. ‘You are,"

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"The Yoruba say ‘o d’oju ala’ when someone dies. I will see you in dreams."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

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31. Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Jane Barsby

3.82

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people. Culture Smart! Kenya  provides a cultural bridge … read more

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  • africa
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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