5 must-read cultural books like Finland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Culture Smart!) by Terttu Leney

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Finland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Culture Smart!)

By: Terttu Leney

4.17

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

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

If you liked the cultural plot in Finland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Culture Smart!) by Terttu Leney , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

By: Marie Kondō

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spark Joy is an in-depth, line illustrated, room-by-room guide to decluttering and organising your … read more

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"I want to live my life in such a way that it colors my things with memories."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Mi resi conto che il valore degli oggetti di cui ho goduto da sola è decisamente minore del valore degli oggetti che mi ricordano i bei momenti trascorsi insieme agli altri."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"«No necesitas una guía, porque el éxito depende en un 90 por ciento de tu manera de pensar». Sé que no importa cuántos conocimientos pueda tener alguien: si no cambia su manera de pensar, se rendirá."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Quando uso il termine «elettrico», intendo tutti gli oggetti che hanno un «odore» elettrico, che emanano una sorta di aroma pungente, formicolante; quindi procedete a riordinare il komomo elettrico u…"

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

By: Meik Wiking

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness Meik Wiking is the CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Remember: Danes are direct descendants of Vikings, so we enjoy watching things burn: bonfires, candles, villages. It's all good."

-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

"Some of the best decisions we make come from that inner voice that says, "Why not?" That says, "Andiamo." So much disappointment arises from what is desired but not chosen."

-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

"My, ludzie, jesteśmy szczęśliwsi, kiedy czujemy się związani z innymi. Oczywiście za tym, co nas uszczęśliwia, musi stać coś więcej niż tylko zaspokojenie tęsknoty za miłością, przyjaźnią i wspólnotą…"

-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

"For the ambitious among us, once we reach our goal we soon formulate another to pursue. This is the hedonic treadmill. We continuously raise the bar for what we want or feel we need in order to be ha…"

-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

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4. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

By: Michael Booth

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown in… read more

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
"This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery."

-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

"They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards."

-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

"They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one."

-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

"The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country."

-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

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5. Hytti nro 6

By: Rosa Liksom

3.21

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Itä on itä ja länsi on länsi, on tyttö ja tytöllä on unelma. On Neuvostoliitto, sen kulahtanut ja a… read more

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  • finnish literature
"Elle était vide et fatiguée. Loin de tout. Y compris d'elle-même."

-Rosa Liksom, Hytti nro 6

"Tout est en mouvement, la neige, l'eau, l'air, les arbres, les nuages, le vent, les villes, les villages, les gens et les pensées."

-Rosa Liksom, Hytti nro 6

"Sä et näe nokkaasi pidemmälle, vaikka kuinka yrität. Mutta muista mustimpanakin hetkenäsi, että kuolleen taivaanrannan takana on aina elämää. (180)"

-Rosa Liksom, Hytti nro 6

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6. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her … read more

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7. Japan - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Paul Norbury

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
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8. The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more

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9. Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By: Emma Hooper

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back. Etta… read more

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10. 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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  • finnish literature
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11. Turkey - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Charlotte McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
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12. Culture Smart! Sweden: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: None , Charlotte DeWitt

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction

13. The Japanese Lover

By: Isabel Allende , Nick Caistor , Amanda Hopkinson

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away … read more

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14. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

By: Fumio Sasaki , None

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he's just a regular guy who was stressed at w… read more

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15. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

By: Richard Bach

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his f… read more

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16. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

By: Suze Orman

4.00

Format: 131 pages,

"Why is it that women, who are so competent in all other areas of their lives, cannot find the same… read more

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17. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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18. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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19. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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20. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

By: Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"

-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

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21. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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22. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

By: Meik Wiking

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, helps you turn your home into… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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24. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

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25. The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu

By: Katja Pantzar

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An engaging and practical guided tour of the simple and nature-inspired ways that Finns stay happy … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • finnish literature
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26. The Daughters of Madurai

By: Rajasree Variyar

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the s… read more

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27. Little Siberia

By: Antti Tuomainen

3.66

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finlan… read more

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28. Lonely Planet Finland (Travel Guide)

By: Andy Symington

3.84

Format: 859 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 best-selling guide to Finland* Lonely Planet Finland is your passport to the most relevant, up-t… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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29. Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (9)

By: Graham E. Saunders

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

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

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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30. Finland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Culture Smart!)

By: Terttu Leney

4.17

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

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

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Marie Kondō

3.88

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Meik Wiking

3.99

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Michael Booth

3.86

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Paul Norbury

4.14

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Lisa See

4.36

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Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

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