6 must-read nonfiction books like The Way We Are by Margaret Visser

Cover of The Way We Are by Margaret Visser

The Way We Are

By: Margaret Visser

3.52

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The Rituals of Dinner and Much Depends on Dinner comes a new collecti…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Way We Are by Margaret Visser , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, a… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • nonfiction
  • history
"It’s a bit burned,"

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."

-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Cover of The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell

2. The Truth About Melody Browne

By: Lisa Jewell

3.85

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph,… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's The Truth About Melody Browne book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

"She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above."

-Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne

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3. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

By: Sarah Perry

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning." --Entertainment Weekly |"Raw and perfect." --Laura Miller, Slate "Heartbreaking yet hop… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

4. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Greene Woodruff's The Lobotomist's Wife book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • psychology
Cover of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor by Valentine Low

5. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

Similar categories in Valentine Low's Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1) by S.J.  Bennett

6. The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)

By: S.J. Bennett

3.52

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Bennett's The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1) book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

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7. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

By: Rick Bragg

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but t… read more

Similar categories in Rick Bragg's The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • nonfiction
"Does he bite?"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"Goodnight, buddy,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"I am beginning to think that the word “no,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already."

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

Cover of Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home by Danielle Postel-Vinay

8. Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home

By: Danielle Postel-Vinay

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practi… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Postel-Vinay's Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Way We Are by Margaret Visser

9. The Way We Are

By: Margaret Visser

3.52

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The Rituals of Dinner and Much Depends on Dinner comes a new collecti… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Visser's The Way We Are book and Margaret Visser's The Way We Are

  • history
  • canada
  • psychology
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • anthropology

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