13 Top nonfiction books like Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by David Hall

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Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest

By: David Hall

4.52

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic Merit This bo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by David Hall , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Orchardist

By: Amanda Coplin

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift fami… read more

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2. Gold

By: Chris Cleave

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passio… read more

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3. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

By: Susan Gregg Gilmore

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.… read more

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4. Peter the Great: His Life and World

By: Robert K. Massie

4.14

Format: 909 pages, Paperback

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Words in Deep Blue

By: Cath Crowley

3.71

Format: 412 pages,

Love lives between the lines. Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she move… read more

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6. The Girls in the Garden

By: Lisa Jewell

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the best… read more

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7. Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights

By: Sarah Marquis

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

From National Geographic's Explorer of 2014, featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wild By Natur… read more

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8. The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum

By: Thomas Cathcart

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a l… read more

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9. The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

"I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known..… read more

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10. Breakup (Kate Shugak, #7)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

April in Alaska is the period of spring thaw, what the locals call breakup. For Kate, this year's m… read more

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11. The Christmas Train

By: David Baldacci

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington D.C. to L.A in time for Christmas. Fo… read more

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12. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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13. Music Is History

By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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14. Hour of the Witch

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.84

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her… read more

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"A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

"We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

". . . in her heart she feared it was something more: it was a sign. Because, if one looked around carefully, wasn’t everything?"

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

"I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

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15. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

By: Alan Rickman

3.58

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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16. The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.01

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village s… read more

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"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

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17. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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18. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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19. The Little Italian Hotel

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When a relationship expert’s own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a va… read more

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"She now knew that heartache could be loud or quiet. Sometimes it needed to make itself known to the world, and other varieties needed space and time to settle down on their own."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Little Italian Hotel

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20. The Dinner

By: Herman Koch

3.21

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition can be found here An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly … read more

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"Non bisogna sempre sapere tutto l’uno dell’altro. I segreti non ostacolano la felicità"

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"When people get a chance to come close to death without having it touch them personally, they never miss the opportunity."

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"Ik dacht aan de tijd, de verstrijkende tijd om precies te zijn, hoe onmetelijk, hoe onafzienbaar, hoe lang en donker en leeg één uur kan zijn. Wie zo denkt heeft helemaal geen lichtjaren nodig."

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"You sometimes hear about people who have lost their sense of smell and taste: for those people, a plate of the most delicious food means nothing at all. That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a …"

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

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21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

4.00

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From the “Icelandic Dickens (Irish Examiner),” a writer who “shares the elemental grandeur of Corma… read more

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"Le lacrime sono fatte come remi, il dolore e la tristezza vogano. Chi piange a un funerale, piange nondimeno la propria morte e quella del mondo, perché tutto muore e alla fine non resta niente. - Lu…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"Erano i tardi anni Ottanta, a breve sarebbe crollato il muro di Berlino e i pezzi sarebbero stati venduti come souvenir, l'essere umano ha la capacità straordinaria di convertire le minacce, la morte…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"في الصمت يدخر الذهب، ذاك الذي يبقى صامتا يلتزم بنفسه، يمكنه اكتشاف امور مختلفة، الصمت يتسرب تحت الجلد، يسكن القلب، يخدر القلق، يغمر الغرفة التي يشغلها المرء، يملأ البيت، وفي الخارج يهدر الزمن الحاضر،…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

"En de vogels op de muren zijn zo levendig geschilderd dat de kat uit de buurt, een geel rotbeest dat ons al van nodeloos veel vogels heeft beroofd, de eerste weken herhaaldelijk tegen het gebouw op s…"

-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

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23. Emergency Contact

By: Lauren Layne

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne--and her real life husband and high school swee… read more

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24. The Summer of Sunshine and Margot

By: Susan Mallery

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Su… read more

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25. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Summer List

By: Amy Mason Doan

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Laura and Casey were once inseparable: as they floated on their backs in the sunlit lake, as they d… read more

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"From the water it looked like a boat, with rows of small, high windows—so much like portholes—and a long, skinny dock—pirate's gangplank—to complete the effect. When the place started falling apart i…"

-Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

"My childhood home in Coeur-de-Lune was now a vacation rental, managed by efficient strangers. I'd never gone back. But my mother kept a buzzing gossip line into her church women from town, and gave m…"

-Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List

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27. One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

By: Gene Weingarten

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, li… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration."

-Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

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28. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

By: Helen Jukes

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

'This book has found a special place in my heart. It’s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as pre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Here I am pondering impermanence, having just tasked myself with the responsibility of keeping something – with sustaining it. A colony is not a book or an archivable object and you can’t hold it in …"

-Helen Jukes, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

"I sometimes think that life must be a bit like tessellation for some people. You take one shape and fit it to the next and they sit comfortably together – you don’t mind a bit of repetition because i…"

-Helen Jukes, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Cover of A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence by Steve Gleason

29. A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

By: Steve Gleason

4.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest

By: David Hall

4.52

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic Merit This bo… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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31. Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty

By: Iris Krasnow

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Iris Krasnow reflects with humor and heart on her summer camp exp… read more

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  • nonfiction

16 must-read fiction books like Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Transform Your Habits

Il pastore d'Islanda

Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Maria Valeria D'Avino , Gunnar Gunnarsson

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Maskeblomstfamilien

Lars Saabye Christensen

3.73

Transform Your Habits

De usynlige (Ingrid Barrøy, #1)

Roy Jacobsen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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