7 Top nonfiction books like From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2) by Vilhelm Moberg

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From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2)

By: Vilhelm Moberg

3.94

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In the second volume of his vivid history of the Swedes, Vilhelm Moberg brings his focus on the com…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2) by Vilhelm Moberg , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Mina drömmars stad (Stadserien, #1)

By: Per Anders Fogelström

4.06

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Stockholm var en småstad men ingen idyll när den femtonårige pojken Henning kom dit 1860. Att få ar… read more

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  • swedish literature
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2. Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

By: Louise Penny

4.36

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Arm… read more

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"The night is a strawberry."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"If less was more, she had a great deal."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"I sometimes think we’re a rowboat society."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"Things are strongest where they're broken."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

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3. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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4. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

By: Russell Shorto

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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5. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more

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6. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more

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7. Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Mistborn: Secret Historyis a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains… read more

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8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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9. Vägen till Klockrike

By: Harry Martinson

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

I Vagen till Klockrikefar vi folja luffaren Bolle pa hans vandringar genom ett Sverige som ar pa va… read more

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10. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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12. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmer… read more

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"I am the one that nightmares fear"

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"There is more salt in this soup than there is soup."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Pay attention. At times, this is what heroism looks like."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Smiles, like radiation, are made more potent by proximity."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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13. The Sunlit Man

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.34

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the … read more

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"Try some curry powder next time. It has a much better flavor than tyranny. Less nutty."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"She knew how she liked to look. And she didn't care that others knew it was artificial. In expressing herself, the artificial became more authentic than the original."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all." "Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something el…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, s…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

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14. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

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15. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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16. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.77

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, wher… read more

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"Horses were less the thundering creatures Of pounding hoof beats and unparalleled speed found in movies and more like golf carts that ran on a tank of grass and occasionally bit you."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

"A little pebble starts as an avalanche," I said. "Life isn't like the craps table, where the next roll has the same chance of winning as the last one. In real life, you lose a little - and that makes…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

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17. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

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18. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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19. Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

By: Amanda Romare

3.13

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Fyra av tio vuxna i Sverige lever i singelhushåll. Det borde finnas nästan tre miljoner singlar i v… read more

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  • swedish literature
"Mina syskon och deras partners är i alla fall jättefina men i min tidsepok "dissdecenniet" så kommer det små knivhugg när jag ser vissa ömsinta grejer de gör mot varandra [..] Det är så givet för dem…"

-Amanda Romare, Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

"Tidigare har jag alltid tänkt att äldre personer på något sätt bara sjunker in i rollen som just gamling. Helt plötsligt slutar man köra bil, får hemtjänst och till slut accepterar man äldreboendet .…"

-Amanda Romare, Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig

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20. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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21. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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22. Memory's Legion

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more

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23. Year of the Monkey

By: Patti Smith

3.80

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

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24. Niebo w kolorze siarki

By: Kjell Westö

3.84

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

Wciągająca powieść o dorastaniu w Finlandii u schyłku XX wieku. Mówimy, że istnieje czas niewinn… read more

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  • swedish literature
Cover of Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer

25. Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

By: Edith Sheffer

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Asperger's actions are perhaps more reflective of the nature of perpetration in the Third Reich than those of more prominent figures. The Reich's systems of extermination depended upon people like As…"

-Edith Sheffer, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

"Rather than inhabiting a world of black and white, most individuals in the Reich operated in shades of gray. People confronted countless decisions each day. One might walk by a "Jews unwanted" sign a…"

-Edith Sheffer, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Cover of From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2) by Vilhelm Moberg

26. From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2)

By: Vilhelm Moberg

3.94

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In the second volume of his vivid history of the Swedes, Vilhelm Moberg brings his focus on the com… read more

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  • history
  • swedish literature
  • nonfiction
  • european history

5 Top history books like From Renaissance to Revolution (A History of the Swedish People, #2) by Vilhelm Moberg

Transform Your Habits

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

Russell Shorto

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Edith Sheffer

3.80

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17 Top fiction books like Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

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Hunger

Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Soumission

Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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