11 best-selling memoir books like The Heeding by Rob Cowen

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The Heeding

By: Rob Cowen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which…

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1. The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

From the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven… read more

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2. The Seas

By: Samantha Hunt

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more

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3. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

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  • nature
"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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4. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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5. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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6. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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7. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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8. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

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9. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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10. I Am an Island

By: Tamsin Calidas

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

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11. Bitter Orange

By: Claire Fuller

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara fi… read more

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12. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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13. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

By: Jonathan Coe

3.93

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more

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"Com’è il morale? In generale"

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

"Frustrato, Doug tentò un’altra strada. “Ascolta, supponiamo che la maggioranza voti per la Brexit e noi..."

-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)

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14. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

By: Lamorna Ash

4.03

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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15. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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17. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Luckenbooth

By: Jenni Fagan

3.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more

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"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."

-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth

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19. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

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20. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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21. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • nature
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22. Villager

By: Tom Cox

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

There’s so much to know. It will never end, I suspect, even when it does. So much in all these live… read more

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  • nature
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23. 21st Century Yokel

By: Tom Cox

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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24. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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25. The Heeding

By: Rob Cowen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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26. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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27. Red Gloves

By: Rebecca Watts

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

By: Jen Hadfield

4.53

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Wher… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

29. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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30. Marram

By: Leonie Charlton

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the southern tip of Barra to the ancient stone circle of Callanish, Leonie and her friend Shun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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31. The Place of Tides

By: James Rebanks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

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The Lost Spells

Robert Macfarlane

4.49

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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Robin Ince

3.84

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Tamsin Calidas

3.76

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Deborah Levy

3.68

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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