5 Best nonfiction books like Rick Steves Sicily by Rick Steves

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Rick Steves Sicily

By: Rick Steves

4.52

Format: 947 pages, Kindle Edition

Swim in the sparkling Mediterranean, marvel at the peak of Mount Etna, and get to know this region'…

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1. Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

By: Jana Deleon

4.24

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

It was a hell of a longshot... CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most diffi… read more

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"So, what were you doing that was such a secret?" "Making moonshine." I stared. "You're kidding me." "Nope." "Moonshine? As in rednecks and brown jugs and prohibition?" Ida Belle drew herself up strai…"

-Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

"There wasn't any place on my body I could hide a gun not with that sleazy dress I had to wear. And that shoe had a spike on it. What the hell else is it good for?'' '' Jesus, Redding.'' Harrison laug…"

-Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

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2. Damage (Abe Glitsky, #3)

By: John Lescroart

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The Curtlees are a powerful force in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who've lined every im… read more

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3. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • nonfiction
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

4. Sutton

By: J.R. Moehringer

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth c… read more

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5. Caribou Island

By: David Vann

4.35

Format: 255 pages,

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unraveling. Gary… read more

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6. The Story of Arthur Truluv

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, life-affirming novel about a remarkably loving man who creates for himself and others … read more

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7. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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8. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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9. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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10. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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11. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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12. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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13. Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum, #30)

By: Janet Evanovich

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freela… read more

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14. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

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15. Loyalty

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zi… read more

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16. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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17. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

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18. Sweet Sinful Nights (Sinful Nights, #1)

By: Lauren Blakely

3.83

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

She was the one who got away… Ten years ago, Brent Nichols let the love of his life slip throug… read more

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19. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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20. Summer Love

By: Nancy Thayer

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this… read more

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21. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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22. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

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23. The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more

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24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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25. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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26. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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27. Factory Girls

By: Michelle Gallen

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more

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"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

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28. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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29. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

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30. Lonely Planet Sicily (Travel Guide)

By: Lonely Planet

3.99

Format: 787 pages, Kindle Edition

Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Sicily is your passport to the mos… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rick Steves Sicily by Rick Steves

31. Rick Steves Sicily

By: Rick Steves

4.52

Format: 947 pages, Kindle Edition

Swim in the sparkling Mediterranean, marvel at the peak of Mount Etna, and get to know this region'… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction

21 Best fiction books like Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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