5 Best biography books like The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by L.M. Montgomery

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The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.51

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fift…

"I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them."

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

"I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them."

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

"Everything speaks of the autumn now. The sea roars hollowly day and night, the fields are bare and sere, bordered by strips of deep-dyed golden-rod, asters, and life-everlasting; and the ponds are blue – blue – not the steely blue of winter or the deep azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast serene blue, as if the water were past all the moods and tenses of passion and had settled down to tranquility."

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

"Everything speaks of the autumn now. The sea roars hollowly day and night, the fields are bare and sere, bordered by strips of deep-dyed golden-rod, asters, and life-everlasting; and the ponds are blue – blue – not the steely blue of winter or the deep azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast serene blue, as if the water were past all the moods and tenses of passion and had settled down to tranquility."

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

If you liked the biography plot in The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by L.M. Montgomery , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Vi

By: Kim Thúy

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mon prénom, Bào Vi, illustrait l'intention de mes parents de «protéger la plus petite». Si l'on t… read more

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  • canada
Cover of No Spot on Earth More Lovely: The Landscapes that Inspired Anne of Green Gables by Catherine Reid, Kerry Michaels

2. No Spot on Earth More Lovely: The Landscapes that Inspired Anne of Green Gables

By: Catherine Reid , Kerry Michaels

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Anne of Green Gablesis a worldwide phenomenon that has sold over fifty million copies and inspired … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Redwall (Redwall, #1) by Brian Jacques

3. Redwall (Redwall, #1)

By: Brian Jacques

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias. R… read more

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"I am that is, my sword shall wield for me."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean...."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

"Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it."

-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)

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4. Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more

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"No,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"And the sea moved her back down the shore."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"Those women like to see their tongues dance."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Cover of Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien

5. Letters from Father Christmas

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more

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6. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more

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7. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more

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8. The Daughters of Ireland

By: Santa Montefiore

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... In the green hills of West Cork,… read more

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9. The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook: Charming Recipes from Anne and Her Friends in Avonlea

By: Kate Macdonald

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Avonlea beckons in this cookbook inspired by the most famous Canadian children's book, L.M. Montgom… read more

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10. The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter… read more

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11. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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Cover of Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

12. Elizabeth and Her German Garden

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more

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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."

-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

13. Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings

By: Mary Henley Rubio

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a … read more

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14. 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

Cover of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin  Kobes Du Mez

15. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

16. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

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"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

Cover of Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2) by Alan Brennert

17. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

By: Alan Brennert

4.12

Format: 309 pages, ebook

This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantine… read more

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"We are together, all else can be endured."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Let the things of long ago drift away on the water"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

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18. A Lullaby for Witches

By: Hester Fox

3.59

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.… read more

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"But what I'm beginning to realize is that I don't need to find myself. I've been here all along."

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

"Here is what I know to be true: we are part of something larger, something more beautiful than we could ever comprehend. During our brief tenure on this earth, we see but only a glimpse of the world …"

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

"Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made m…"

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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20. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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21. The Second Mountain

By: David Brooks

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you."

-David Brooks, The Second Mountain

"People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display."

-David Brooks, The Second Mountain

"Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters."

-David Brooks, The Second Mountain

"The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal"

-David Brooks, The Second Mountain

Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

22. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler

23. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yū Miri

24. Tokyo Ueno Station

By: Yū Miri

3.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more

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"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

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25. Argylle

By: Elly Conway

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungle… read more

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26. Time After Time

By: Lisa Grunwald

3.74

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, s… read more

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"Infatuation was weather - love was climate."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"Manhattanhenge was a reminder that there was power, order, and beauty in the natural world as well."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

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27. Book Nerd

By: Holly Maguire

4.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Book nerds rule! And what better gift than a book that celebrates bookishness? You know you’re a Bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by L.M. Montgomery

28. The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.51

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fift… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • diary
  • journal
  • canadian literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them."

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

"Everything speaks of the autumn now. The sea roars hollowly day and night, the fields are bare and sere, bordered by strips of deep-dyed golden-rod, asters, and life-everlasting; and the ponds are bl…"

-L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900

Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

29. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

10 Top nonfiction books like The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900 by L.M. Montgomery

Transform Your Habits

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Catherine Reid , Kerry Michaels

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Transform Your Habits

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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Jonathan Haidt

4.46

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David Brooks

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Charles Duhigg

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Erik Larson

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