8 Top nonfiction books like Afternoons with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt

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Afternoons with Harper Lee

By: Wayne Flynt

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swappi…

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1. Q is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone, #17)

By: Sue Grafton

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quar… read more

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2. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

By: Joshilyn Jackson

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty. Coming from a family with a literal skeleton in … read more

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3. S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, #19)

By: Sue Grafton

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular 'alphabet' series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. … read more

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4. A Good Hard Look

By: Ann Napolitano

4.32

Format: 210 pages,

Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own … read more

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5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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7. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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8. Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more

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9. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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10. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

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11. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

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12. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

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13. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

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"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

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15. Summer on Sag Harbor

By: Sunny Hostin

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor affectionately known as SANS—Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninev… read more

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16. Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots

By: Reba McEntire

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-dri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

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"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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18. The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club

By: Julia Bryan Thomas

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For readers of Martha Hall Kelly and Beatriz Williams comes poignant historical fiction that remind… read more

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19. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

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"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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20. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Casey Cep

3.77

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on ob… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"There’s no news in a newsroom"

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Vengeance is as old as violence."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"History isn’t what happens, but what gets written down."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Monroeville was hard to get to and easy to get stuck in."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

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22. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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23. The Best Cook in the World

By: Rick Bragg

4.19

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. Seven Summer Weekends

By: Jane L. Rosen

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman inherits a beach house, along with a series of weekend guests, while butting heads with the… read more

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25. As the Wicked Watch

By: Tamron Hall

3.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As … read more

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"To the countless children missing or taken by the darkness of the world. You are more than a story. You are more than words on a page. You are loved, you are missed, and you are not forgotten."

-Tamron Hall, As the Wicked Watch

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26. Make Something Good Today: A Memoir

By: Ben Napier

4.48

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Faith was a permanent and unquestioned part of my life. My family-- everyone around me, really-- was cut the same cloth. We were churchgoers and Methodists, and those facts permeated just about every…"

-Ben Napier, Make Something Good Today: A Memoir

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27. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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28. The Good Liars

By: Anita Frank

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Six years ago, at the very start of World War One, a local boy went missing and was never found. So… read more

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29. After Oz

By: Gordon McAlpine

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more

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30. A Novel Summer

By: Jamie Brenner

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of a quaint beach town bookshop … read more

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31. Afternoons with Harper Lee

By: Wayne Flynt

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swappi… read more

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Reba McEntire

4.08

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Casey Cep

3.77

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4.19

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4.14

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4.42

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