7 best-selling nonfiction books like The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L'Engle

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The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.42

Format: 967 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times–bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life …

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1. Come, Tell Me How You Live

By: Agatha Christie , None , Agatha Christie Mallowan

4.09

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Over the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I pass to the Stationery Department. I buy several fountain and stylographic pens - it being my experience that, though a fountain pen in England behaves in an exemplary manner, the moment it is let …"

-Agatha Christie, Come, Tell Me How You Live

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2. Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #1)

By: Margaret Maron

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

This first novel in Maron's Imperfect series, which won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 1… read more

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3. Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)

By: Deborah Crombie

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When a body is found floating in the Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent … read more

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4. All Shall Be Well (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #2)

By: Deborah Crombie

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the s… read more

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5. The Vintage Caper

By: Peter Mayle

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle's newest and most delightful novel is… read more

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6. News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more

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7. The Case of William Smith (Miss Silver, #13)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had… read more

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8. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more

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9. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Irin Carmon , Shana Knizhnik

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

You can't spell truth without Ruth. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me. The Ruth will set you fr… read more

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10. Andy Catlett: Early Travels

By: Wendell Berry

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to… read more

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11. Copper River (Cork O'Connor, #6)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.42

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Two-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has "moved to the head of the crime fict… read more

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12. 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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13. A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

By: W. Phillip Keller

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want..." Travel the shepherd's path to the green pastur… read more

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14. Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy.

By: Bob Goff

4.24

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Through his pithy and inspiring storytelling that has endeared him to millions, New York Times best… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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15. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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16. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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17. A Chateau Under Siege

By: Martin Walker

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more

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18. An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.53

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder. July 1… read more

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"Chap's been shot in the Tramway Centre." "Nasty place to be shot," I said. "I wouldn't want to be shot in the Tramway Centre."

-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

"Hello Sim, dear," said Lady Hardcastle. "We've come to see your body." Dr. Gosling laughed. "I say, that's rather forward of you, Em. I had no idea you felt that way."

-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

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19. An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.39

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s The… read more

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20. Where the Light Fell

By: Philip Yancey

4.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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21. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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22. Virgil Wander

By: Leif Enger

4.01

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more

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"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."

-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

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23. To Kill a Troubadour (Bruno, Chief of Police, #15)

By: Martin Walker

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish na… read more

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24. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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25. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

By: Neil King Jr.

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more

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26. The Beauty of Dusk

By: Frank Bruni

4.06

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir abo… read more

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27. Death of a Penniless Poet

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.43

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

DEATH of a PENNILESS POET Gabriel Travis – a poet and book binder – has lived and worked above the… read more

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28. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

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"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

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29. The Fatal Flying Affair (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #7)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.43

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine… read more

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30. Bruno's Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside

By: Martin Walker

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Walker presents his first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from h… read more

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31. The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.42

Format: 967 pages, Kindle Edition

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4.52

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4.16

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Kristen Perrin

3.80

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Suzanne Palmer

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