5 best-selling nonfiction books like The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses by Karen Kenyon

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The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses

By: Karen Kenyon

3.83

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate literary geniuses - their own story... The authors of such literary classics as Jane Ey…

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1. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

By: Robert Hughes

4.08

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there h…"

-Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

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2. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

By: Kathryn Mannix

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

4. The Sea House

By: Elisabeth Gifford

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up hi… read more

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5. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

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"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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6. Hidden in Snow (The Åre Murders, #1)

By: Viveca Sten

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime. On the day… read more

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7. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

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8. The Dressmaker's Gift

By: Fiona Valpy

4.23

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From the bestselling autho… read more

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9. Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17)

By: Mark Billingham

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes … read more

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10. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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11. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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12. The Killing Game (Alexa Chase, #1)

By: Kate Bold

3.86

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

THE KILLING GAME (An Alexa Chase Suspense Thriller—Book 1) is the debut novel in a new series by my… read more

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13. Goodnight, Vienna

By: Marius Gabriel

4.56

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Katya never wanted to look after Gretchen. Now she’s the young girl’s only hope of survival. 193… read more

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14. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

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15. Blame It on the Brontes

By: Annie Sereno

3.15

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

She’s going to write her own happy ending. English professor Athena Murphy is an authority on the … read more

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16. Valhalla: The untold story of Queen Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary

By: Alan Robert Clark

4.08

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the trou… read more

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17. Being the Soham Psychic

By: Dennis McKenzie

4.30

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of one man's paranormal powers... 'I am really sorry but both the girls are de… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses

By: Karen Kenyon

3.83

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate literary geniuses - their own story... The authors of such literary classics as Jane Ey… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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3.68

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4.02

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