9 must-read nonfiction books like A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

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A Short History of Scotland

By: Andrew Lang

3.31

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosa… read more

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  • classics
"better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

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3. Stranger in a Strange Land

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more

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  • classics
"Secrecy begets tyranny."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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5. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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  • classics
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6. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

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7. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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  • classics
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8. Rocket Ship Galileo

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Winner of four Hugo Awards and the Grand Master Nebula Award for Lifetime Achievement. Three high s… read more

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9. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By: Marc Morris

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • classics
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11. Cleopatra

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.59

Format: None pages,

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival … read more

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  • classics
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12. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

13. The Star Beast

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had al… read more

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14. Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

By: None

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--i… read more

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15. Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Ti… read more

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16. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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17. You Can Heal Your Life

By: Louise L. Hay

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

Louise's key message in this powerful work is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost any… read more

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18. Hadrian the Seventh

By: Frederick Rolfe , Alexander Theroux

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be P… read more

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19. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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  • classics
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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20. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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21. Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

By: Patrick Bet-David

4.12

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most e… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good…"

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

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22. Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace

By: Gabrielle Bernstein

3.92

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** IF YOU WERE FREE FROM FEAR, WHO WOULD YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO BE… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Daughter of the Fens

By: Elena Collins

4.47

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

AD 61 Brittania is in the hands of the Romans but when the conquering army betray the dead King … read more

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  • historical
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24. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

By: Edward Wilson-Lee

3.68

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fracti… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "

-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, <>"

-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella sicché mi dissi, "Oh, che abisso è qui... povero il mio stomaco che tanto si arrovella!"

-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

"Vedere sì tanti libri, mi lasciò senza favella/sicchè mi dissi, "Oh, che abisso è qui.../povero il mio stomaco che tanto si arrovella!"

-Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

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25. The History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1

By: Gaston Maspero

3.87

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Originally published in an updated edition (in French) between 1895-1897. Translated into English … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. A Short History of Scotland

By: Andrew Lang

3.31

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • reference

11 must-read classics books like A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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9 Top history books like The History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 by Gaston Maspero

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Famous Men of Greece

Addison B. Poland , John Henry Haaren

3.86

The Analects

Confucius , D.C. Lau

3.20

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