11 Best nonfiction books like Kingdoms Of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge by Andrew Greig

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Kingdoms Of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge

By: Andrew Greig

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge.T…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

By: Edmund de Waal

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned li… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?"

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

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3. One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

By: Lee Child

4.24

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops h… read more

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"I went to college. West Point is technically a college."

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

"I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. B…"

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

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4. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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5. Surviving K2

By: Wilco van Rooijen

4.13

Format: None pages,

WILCO VAN ROOIJEN: SURVIVING K2 Surviving two days in the Death Zone In the summer of 2008 the 'Nor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves

By: Ed Douglas , David Rose , David Rose

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

By any standard, Alison Hargreaves was a world-class mountaineer. In May 1995, she reached the summ… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Emotionally Weird

By: Kate Atkinson

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A hilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life Af… read more

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8. Standard Deviation

By: Katherine Heiny

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… read more

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9. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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11. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… 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
"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

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13. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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14. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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15. Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White

4.48

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

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17. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

By: Anthony Bale

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

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18. 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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19. On the Cusp: Days of '62

By: David Kynaston

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The 'real' Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Kingdoms Of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge

By: Andrew Greig

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge.T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • outdoors

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