5 must-read travel books like Vietnam - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture by Geoffrey Murray

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Vietnam - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Geoffrey Murray

3.81

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count…

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1. Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

By: Marie Kondō

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spark Joy is an in-depth, line illustrated, room-by-room guide to decluttering and organising your … read more

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"I want to live my life in such a way that it colors my things with memories."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Mi resi conto che il valore degli oggetti di cui ho goduto da sola è decisamente minore del valore degli oggetti che mi ricordano i bei momenti trascorsi insieme agli altri."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"«No necesitas una guía, porque el éxito depende en un 90 por ciento de tu manera de pensar». Sé que no importa cuántos conocimientos pueda tener alguien: si no cambia su manera de pensar, se rendirá."

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

"Quando uso il termine «elettrico», intendo tutti gli oggetti che hanno un «odore» elettrico, che emanano una sorta di aroma pungente, formicolante; quindi procedete a riordinare il komomo elettrico u…"

-Marie Kondō, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

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2. Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspe… read more

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"It was precisely midnight when he stepped through the door. Taylor had said he wanted everyone in the Incident Room an hour before first light the next day, but Perez wasn't ready for sleep. As he sw…"

-Ann Cleeves, Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

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3. Japan - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Paul Norbury

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
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4. Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture

By: None , Kate Reavill

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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5. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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6. Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

By: Ray Kurzweil , Terry Grossman

4.04

Format: 323 pages,

In 2004, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD, published Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live … read more

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7. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

8. Italy - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture

By: Barry Tomalin

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, its stunningly beautiful l… read more

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9. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

By: Bảo Ninh , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam W… read more

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10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

11. China - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette

By: None

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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12. Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation

By: Elizabeth Pisani

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of po… read more

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13. The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood

By: Emeran Mayer

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practica… read more

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14. Korea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Culture & Customs

By: None

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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15. The House of Silk

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

London, 1890. 221B Baker Street. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes an… read more

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16. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more

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"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."

-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

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17. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

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"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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18. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

By: John Cleese

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more

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"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

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19. The Mountains Sing

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more

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"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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20. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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21. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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22. Why We Swim

By: Bonnie Tsui

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Stars and Smoke (Stars and Smoke, #1)

By: Marie Lu

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu puts a s… read more

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"I really thought I had more time with you, he whispered, more to himself than anyone else. All I ever wanted was to be like you." "Be like you, Winter."

-Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke (Stars and Smoke, #1)

"Sydney’s words from his training week echoed in his mind. It’s a lonely job, but you won’t realize just how lonely it is until you start. He could already feel it. And somehow, it was familiar."

-Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke (Stars and Smoke, #1)

"Under dark eyes rimmed with long black lashes, a mysterious grace in his movements, an expression that could somehow switch between shy and mischievous in the space of a second. But it was more than …"

-Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke (Stars and Smoke, #1)

"Then his leg dropped again and he stepped smoothly back into a walk. There was sadness etched into the lines of his body tonight, something she occasionally recognized from his performances. It gave …"

-Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke (Stars and Smoke, #1)

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24. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

By: Egill Bjarnason

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more

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  • cultural
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25. Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more

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"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

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26. The First Husband

By: Laura Dave

3.63

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A savvy, page-turning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd ma… read more

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27. What's Mine and Yours

By: Naima Coster

3.56

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the… read more

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"For all her boldness, Jade was good at citing risks, naming all the things that could sabotage a life. In the weeks after a homicide in the neighborhood, elementary school kids did worse on tests. Te…"

-Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours

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28. Enchanted Hill

By: Emily Bain Murphy

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past colli… read more

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29. Spain - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Marian Meaney

3.85

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • cultural
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30. Vietnam - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Geoffrey Murray

3.81

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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31. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

By: Drew Afualo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new genera… read more

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13 best-selling nonfiction books like Vietnam - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture by Geoffrey Murray

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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Marie Kondō

3.88

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Japan - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

Paul Norbury

4.14

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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

3.67

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Kate Baer

4.07

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Alexandra Witze , Jeff Kanipe

3.85

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4.10

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4.08

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