5 must-read nonfiction books like Dead Now Of Course by Phyllida Law

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Dead Now Of Course

By: Phyllida Law

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s s…

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1. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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2. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar

3.97

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more

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"All things are forgotten in the end"

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

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3. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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6. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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7. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

By: Nina Stibbe

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more

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8. Sunday Silence (Frieda Klein, #7)

By: Nicci French

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday. Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the s… read more

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9. Man at the Helm

By: Nina Stibbe

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apa… read more

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10. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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11. Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control

By: Dana K. White

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want t… read more

Similar categories in Dana K. White's Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control book and Phyllida Law's Dead Now Of Course

  • nonfiction
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12. The Day of the Dead (Frieda Klein #8)

By: Nicci French

4.14

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Now the final book in this extraordinary series is here. And it's an ending you'll never forget. … read more

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13. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

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14. In a Thousand Different Ways

By: Cecelia Ahern

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Finding your way is never a simple journey… Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the… read more

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15. The Bookshop

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.28

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more

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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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16. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

4.02

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more

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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"

-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace

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18. The Pact

By: Sharon J. Bolton

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

'The Secret History for Millennials' Belinda Bauer A golden summer, and six talented teenagers a… read more

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19. Old Baggage

By: Lissa Evans

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting throug… read more

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20. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

By: William Miller

3.98

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. Paradise Lodge

By: Nina Stibbe

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's … read more

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22. One Day I Shall Astonish the World

By: Nina Stibbe

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of  Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more

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23. Love Untold

By: Ruth Jones

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of wo… read more

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24. The Glass House

By: Eve Chase

3.98

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more

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"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

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25. The Museum of Ordinary People

By: Mike Gayle

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever… read more

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26. Valentine

By: Elizabeth Wetmore

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of on… read more

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"The only thing I hate more that being home with Alice all day long is feeling guilty about not wanting to do it. Corrine's voice breaks and she pushes her fist against her mouth. She is trying not to…"

-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine

"He wears a Stetson so clean you could eat a sandwich off the brim. All hat, no cattle. Keith leaned forward and looked me right in the eye,. Family's been in Texas since forever. Probably got a whole…"

-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine

"Yeah. What do you need, Corrine, to be happy with me and Alice? She doesn't hesitate. I need to go back to my work, Potter. Honey, you work, taking care of Alice and me. Yes, I do. I'd prefer to teac…"

-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine

"In the church where I grew up, we were taught that sin, even if it happens only in your heart, condemns you all the same. Grace is not assured to any of us, maybe not even most of us, and while being…"

-Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine

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27. The Evidence Against You

By: Gillian McAllister

3.87

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

It's the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicte… read more

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28. A Village Affair

By: Julie Houston

4.15

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassie Beresford has recently landed her dream job as deputy head at her local, idyllic village pri… read more

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29. Dead Now Of Course

By: Phyllida Law

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s s… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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