5 Top nonfiction books like Atlas of Poetic Zoology (Mit Press) by Emmanuelle Pouydebat

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Atlas of Poetic Zoology (Mit Press)

By: Emmanuelle Pouydebat

4.36

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoolog…

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Cover of The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volume 1 (The Girl from the Other Side, #1) by Nagabe, Adrienne Beck, Lys Blakeslee

1. The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volume 1 (The Girl from the Other Side, #1)

By: Nagabe , Adrienne Beck , Lys Blakeslee

4.22

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time... In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beas… read more

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  • graphic novels
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2. Mystery in White

By: Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several pa… read more

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"That is why any general, however wrong he may be--take Napoleon, to avoid the politics of mere contemporary examples--must believe in himself to be successful, or dupe himself into such a belief. Ind…"

-Martin Edwards, Mystery in White

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3. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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4. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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5. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

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6. Endless Love

By: Scott Spencer

3.55

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel… read more

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"No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her."

-Scott Spencer, Endless Love

"All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else."

-Scott Spencer, Endless Love

"I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to."

-Scott Spencer, Endless Love

"I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms."

-Scott Spencer, Endless Love

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7. Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

By: Joanne Harris

3.96

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a d… read more

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  • france
"Knowledge is currency here...."

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"un'alchimista casalinga, che fa magie caserecce"

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is"

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

"Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end."

-Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)

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8. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother

By: Rachel Cusk

4.57

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
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9. Wake Not the Dead

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more

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10. Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations

By: Aude de Tocqueville

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Lady Windermere's Fan

By: Oscar Wilde

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan… read more

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12. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)

By: Mira Grant

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more

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13. Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness

By: Robert Montgomery , None

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

An Italian ethnobotanist explores the remarkable propensity of wild animals to seek out and use psy… read more

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14. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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15. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 2

By: Nagabe , Adrienne Beck

4.26

Format: None pages,

Untouchable To be touched by an Outsider is to become an Outsider. A clawed, black hand reaches out… read more

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16. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

By: Leigh Bardugo , Sara Kipin

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlig… read more

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17. An English Murder

By: Cyril Hare

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Warbeck Hall is an old-fashioned English country house and the scene of equally English murders. Al… read more

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18. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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19. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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20. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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21. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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22. SPY×FAMILY 11

By: Tatsuya Endo

4.54

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

デズモンドの妻・メリンダと親しくなったヨルに負けないよう、「ナカヨシ作戦」に本気になるアーニャ! だが、イーデン校の社会科見学の道中、子供たちは事件に巻き込まれ…!? read more

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  • graphic novels
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23. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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24. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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25. La sposa cadavere

By: Friedrich August Schulze

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"La sposa cadavere" è una spiazzante storia gotica costruita alla maniera delle scatole cinesi e si… read more

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26. 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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27. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

By: Kikuko Tsumura

3.60

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more

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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."

-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

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28. The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.94

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

Length: 2 hours and 14 minutes Enter the world of the Grishaverse and Shadow and Bone, soon to b… read more

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"You can choose faith or you can choose fear. But only one will bring what you long for."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse)

"Maybe some people are destined for one another and lucky enough to know it when they finally meet."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse)

"There was a war, there were a thousand wars. I knew a killer. I knew a hero. They might've been a same man."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse)

"I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to dream of other worlds"

-Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse)

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29. Atlas of Poetic Zoology (Mit Press)

By: Emmanuelle Pouydebat

4.36

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoolog… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
  • graphic novels
  • animals
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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30. One Hundred Shadows

By: Hwang Jungeun

3.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more

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"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

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31. Hidden Places: An Inspired Traveller's Guide

By: Sarah Baxter

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Wander off the beaten track to uncover the world’s most secret destinations through insightful text… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

18 Top fiction books like The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo

Transform Your Habits

Warm Up (Villains, #0.5)

Victoria Schwab , None

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

Alice Oseman

4.49

Transform Your Habits

A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Ava Reid

3.78

Transform Your Habits

A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

Stephanie Garber

4.13

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