12 Best nonfiction books like A Natural Year: Living Simply Through the Seasons by Wendyl Nissen

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A Natural Year: Living Simply Through the Seasons

By: Wendyl Nissen

4.08

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A Natural Year follows writer Wendyl Nissen's life in the peaceful New Zealand countryside over one…

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1. How to Get There

By: Maggie MacKellar

3.97

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

After Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic … read more

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2. When it Rains: A Memoir

By: Maggie MacKellar

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

When Maggie's vibrant young husband, father to a five-year-old daughter and an unborn son, walks aw… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to… read more

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4. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

By: Charles Eisenstein

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better… read more

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  • nonfiction

5. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By: Helen Simonson

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled wi… read more

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6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all b… read more

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7. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert… read more

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8. Cloudstreet

By: Tim Winton

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more

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9. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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10. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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11. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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12. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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13. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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14. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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15. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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16. Quiet in Her Bones

By: Nalini Singh

3.62

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes … read more

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17. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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18. Here For a Good Time: Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind

By: Chris Parker

3.90

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Cele… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Last Night in Montreal

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.73

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more

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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

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20. The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist

By: Cynric Temple-Camp

4.19

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Start Without Me (I'll Be There in a Minute)

By: Gary Janetti

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Gary Janetti comes Start Without Me, a collection of hilario… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. A Forager's Life

By: Helen Lehndorf

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food … read more

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23. Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story

By: Jools Topp

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The iconic Kiwi duo - comedians, country music stars, yodellers, lesbians - in their own words. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. A High Country Life

By: Philippa Cameron

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A High Country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes.… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • nonfiction
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25. I Love My Stupid Life: Eat Lit Food And Other Tasty Exploits

By: Albert Cho

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Biting, pungent, salty and – yes – sweet, too, this is the true story of Albert Cho’s life in food … read more

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26. Signs of Life

By: Amy Head

3.65

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, wh… read more

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27. This Changes Everything: The Honest Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause

By: Niki Bezzant

4.31

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A new and demographically significant generation of women as young as 35 is facing perimenopause an… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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30. A Natural Year: Living Simply Through the Seasons

By: Wendyl Nissen

4.08

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A Natural Year follows writer Wendyl Nissen's life in the peaceful New Zealand countryside over one… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • nonfiction
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31. The Final Diagnosis: Obscure cases of death, disease & murder

By: Cynric Temple-Camp

4.11

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's inte… read more

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Pip Williams

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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Ruth Shaw

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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Emma Espiner

4.31

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