6 must-read nonfiction books like Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss by Warren Kozak

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Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss

By: Warren Kozak

4.59

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fun…

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Cover of The Time Trilogy (Time Quintet, #1-3) by Madeleine L'Engle

1. The Time Trilogy (Time Quintet, #1-3)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.32

Format: 710 pages, Hardcover

A set of books about the time-traveling adventures of the Murray family includes: A Wrinkle in Time… read more

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2. Picture Perfect

By: Jodi Picoult

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Leaving Time, The Storyteller, and Nineteen Minutes… read more

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3. The Accidental Tourist

By: Anne Tyler

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is ground… read more

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4. Blood Money (Joe Dillard #6)

By: Scott Pratt

4.06

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done… read more

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5. Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more

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6. A Fall of Marigolds

By: Susan Meissner

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weigh… read more

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7. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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8. Once Upon a Wardrobe

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more

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"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

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9. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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10. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

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11. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… 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. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

Cover of Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden

14. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

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15. This Is Happiness

By: Niall Williams

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more

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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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16. 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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17. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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18. 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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19. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

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20. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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21. The Bird Hotel

By: Joyce Maynard

4.30

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After… read more

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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

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22. Fifty Words for Rain

By: Asha Lemmie

3.88

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's q… read more

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"Nori ebbe un attimo di esitazione. Aveva solo qualche secondo. Non le veniva in mente niente da dire a quella donna. Erano una puttana e la sua signora, una principessa decaduta e una pezzente arricc…"

-Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

Cover of Target Acquired (Jack Ryan Jr, #14; Jack Ryan Universe,  #32) by Don Bentley

23. Target Acquired (Jack Ryan Jr, #14; Jack Ryan Universe, #32)

By: Don Bentley

4.17

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Jack Ryan Jr is on a simple job. An all-expenses paid trip to Israel in exchange for a of couple ho… read more

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24. The Lioness of Boston

By: Emily Franklin

3.72

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an… read more

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"Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth."

-Emily Franklin, The Lioness of Boston

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25. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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26. The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

By: Steve Leder

4.45

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an … read more

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"This is the beauty and the tragedy of my father's life and death. For him, for me, for most of us at the time, for better and for worse, death is life's mirror."

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"Understanding death - its rituals, its lessons, its gift to reshape love through memory, its grief, its powerful reminder that it is not what but who we have that matters - gives our lives exquisite …"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"It is the impermanence of the body that has convinced me of the eternality of the soul. Physics tells us that energy never dies, it merely assumes a different form. I never feel this more deeply than…"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

"When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. It is easy among the doctors, the needles, and the tubes to lose sigh…"

-Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

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27. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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28. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

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Cover of Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss by Warren Kozak

29. Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss

By: Warren Kozak

4.59

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

To those around me—my friends, my colleagues, even my daughter—I appear normal, but in one very fun… read more

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Cover of Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23) by Vince Flynn

30. Capture or Kill (Mitch Rapp, #23)

By: Vince Flynn

4.53

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Rapp faces an Iranian foe bent on destabilizing the Middle East in the newest thriller from V… read more

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