White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
By: Robert Twigger
3.58
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of Angry White Pyjamas . Home to myt…
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1. Star Struck (Kate Brannigan, #6)
By: Val McDermid
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to p… read more
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2. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- travelogue
"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
3. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
4. Big Open: On Foot Across Tibert's Chang Tang
By: Rick Ridgeway
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek throug… read more
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- travel
- asia
- china
- nonfiction
5. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
6. The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
By: Joanna Kavenna
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
7. No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Vintage Departures)
By: Redmond O'Hanlon
3.99
Format: None pages,
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- travel
- nonfiction
8. The White Spider
By: Heinrich Harrer
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer an… read more
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9. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more
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10. The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit
By: Shirley MacLaine
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
It has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment t… read more
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11. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)
By: Dorothy Gilman
4.16
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was… read more
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"there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion"-Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)
"But that is precisely what life is, wouldn’t you agree? Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice? And isn’t it free choice t…"-Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)
12. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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13. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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14. Girlfriend in a Coma
By: Douglas Coupland
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she wo… read more
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15. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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- historical
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
17. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
By: Mark Adams
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journ… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
18. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
3.55
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more
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- historical
"A whore is a whore is a whore."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"All cats are grey with the candles out."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
19. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
20. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
21. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
By: Mark Synnott
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
22. The Diabolical Bones (Brontë Sisters Mystery, #2)
By: Bella Ellis
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"Move over, Jane Austen, for the latest literary ladies who snoop in this... lively series debut."-… read more
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- historical
23. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding rea… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
24. Silence: In the Age of Noise
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notio… read more
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- nonfiction
"When you’ve invested a lot of time in being accessible and keeping up with what’s happening, it’s easy to conclude that it all has a certain value, even if what you have done might not be important. …"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
"What we are experiencing is experiential poverty. Such poverty may not only be about a lack of experiences, where nothing is happening. An abundance of activities can also create a feeling of experie…"-Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise
25. 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
By: Annabel Streets
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walkin… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
By: John Keay
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."-- The Washington Post A groundb… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- india
- china
27. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
28. The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
By: Charlie English
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Two tales of a city: The historical race to -discover- one of the world's most mythologized places,… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
29. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
30. White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
By: Robert Twigger
3.58
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of Angry White Pyjamas . Home to myt… read more
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- buddhism
- history
- travel
- historical
- asia
- nonfiction
- india
- 21st century
- china
- travelogue
31. The Answer Is No: A Short Story
By: Fredrik Backman
4.13
Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition
In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities … read more
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