14 Top nonfiction books like Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy: A High-Country Guide to Natural Dyeing and Making Heirloom Quilts from Scratch by Sara Larson Buscaglia

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Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy: A High-Country Guide to Natural Dyeing and Making Heirloom Quilts from Scratch

By: Sara Larson Buscaglia

4.45

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Artist and quiltmaker Sara Larson Buscaglia invites readers to her Colorado farm to learn the secre…

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1. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more

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2. The Painted Veil

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more

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3. Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d… read more

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"She would die of him or be cured."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"For scientists, reality is not optional."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

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4. Miss Rumphius

By: Barbara Cooney

4.45

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted an… read more

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5. The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously

By: None

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, S… read more

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6. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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7. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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8. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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9. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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10. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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11. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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12. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By: Clare Hunter

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"

-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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13. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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14. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

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15. Ephemera

By: Briana Loewinsohn

4.00

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephem… read more

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16. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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17. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

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18. Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

3.85

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more

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19. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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20. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

By: Leah Myers

3.81

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more

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"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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21. Shit Cassandra Saw

By: Gwen E. Kirby

3.83

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more

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22. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

By: Will Grant

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more

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23. Phoebe's Diary

By: Phoebe Wahl

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Drawn from real life, here is a bracingly honest illustrated diary of… read more

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24. 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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"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

Cover of Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances by Paco de Leon

25. Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

By: Paco de Leon

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An illustrated, practical guide to navigating your financial life, no matter your financial situati… read more

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"Get to know your student loans the way you’d get to know someone you’re dating — very intimately."

-Paco de Leon, Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

"Think of interest as whipped cream and a piece of cake as the principal. A smaller piece of cake limits the amount of surface area there is to put whipped cream on"

-Paco de Leon, Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

"Here are some examples: Breathwork is a really amazing tool because you can do it anywhere, anytime. Strenuous exercise, or other types of physical activity like going for a walk, running or riding a…"

-Paco de Leon, Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

"Your financial life is like a sandcastle. You spend time tending to it, building it, and making decisions and choices that you hope will keep it from crumbling. You can control what you can, but ther…"

-Paco de Leon, Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

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26. The Wild Dyer: A Guide to Natural Dyes & the Art of Patchwork & Stitch

By: Abigail Booth

4.28

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

By teaching you the foundations of natural dyeing, and guiding you through the simple stitch techni… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
Cover of Found and Ground: A Practical Guide to Making Your Own Foraged Paints by Caroline Ross

27. Found and Ground: A Practical Guide to Making Your Own Foraged Paints

By: Caroline Ross

4.48

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everything you need to learn how to make your own natural watercolor paints, oak gall ink and the b… read more

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28. Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy: A High-Country Guide to Natural Dyeing and Making Heirloom Quilts from Scratch

By: Sara Larson Buscaglia

4.45

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Artist and quiltmaker Sara Larson Buscaglia invites readers to her Colorado farm to learn the secre… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • quilting
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

29. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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Cover of The Lavender Companion: Enjoy the Aroma, Flavor, and Health Benefits of This Classic Herb by Terry Barlin Vesci

30. The Lavender Companion: Enjoy the Aroma, Flavor, and Health Benefits of This Classic Herb

By: Terry Barlin Vesci

4.60

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of lavender featuring stunning photographs; favorite recipes for the kitchen, pantry,… read more

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31. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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9 Top adult books like Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances by Paco de Leon

Transform Your Habits

Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

Tori Dunlap

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Vivian Tu

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Tiffany Aliche

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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Chelsea Fagan

3.43

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