6 Top nonfiction books like Inca Kola : A Traveller's Tale of Peru by Matthew Parris

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Inca Kola : A Traveller's Tale of Peru

By: Matthew Parris

3.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris’s fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre hol…

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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

By: Muriel Spark

3.65

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more

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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

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2. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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3. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

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4. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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5. The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

By: Lee Child

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: … read more

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6. Days Without End

By: Sebastian Barry

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more

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7. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

8. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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9. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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10. The Cobra

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of internati… read more

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11. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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12. Silverview

By: John Le Carré

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more

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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."

-John Le Carré, Silverview

"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"

-John Le Carré, Silverview

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13. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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14. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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15. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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16. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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17. Paris Echo

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the e… read more

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18. Snow Country

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.71

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more

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"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."

-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country

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19. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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20. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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21. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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22. A Song for the Dark Times (Inspector Rebus, #23)

By: Ian Rankin

4.13

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"He’s gone…"   When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not goo… read more

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23. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

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"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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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. The Glass House

By: Eve Chase

3.98

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more

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"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

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26. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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28. House of Trelawney

By: Hannah Rothschild

3.58

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Improbability of Love a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an e… read more

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"Maybe I've got to that age when a woman turns to God, gardening or genealogy."

-Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

"History is like waves on a seashore: tides come and go but nothing really changes."

-Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

"You have an opportunity to help someone, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life,"

-Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

"What happens between two people is mystifying; the opposite of what you think can be closer to the truth."

-Hannah Rothschild, House of Trelawney

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29. Inca Kola : A Traveller's Tale of Peru

By: Matthew Parris

3.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris’s fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre hol… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • latin american
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30. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

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Elton John

4.33

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Raynor Winn

4.02

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Robin Ince

3.84

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Robert D. Kaplan

3.62

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Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Investigations, #4)

Mick Herron

4.02

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The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

Len Deighton

3.93

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Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

Mick Herron

3.89

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Len Deighton

3.59

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