7 best-selling biography books like Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes

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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania

By: Kathryn Hughes

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pe…

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Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

1. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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2. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more

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5. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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6. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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7. Come to the Window

By: Howard Norman

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I. It’s … read more

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8. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World

By: Daisy Dunn

4.01

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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11. Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, Second Edition: Fresh, Flavorful, and Healthy Plant-Based Burgers—Plus Toppings, Sides, Buns, and More

By: Lukas Volger

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An updated edition of the “wonderful”* veggie burger cookbook, with recipes and tips for making 35+… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

12. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

By: Edward Dolnick

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • animals
  • audiobook
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13. The Stone Witch of Florence

By: Anna Rasche

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Ancient sorcery. Magic gemstones. Only one woman can save a city in ruins… 1348. As the Black Pl… read more

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14. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. The Marigold Mind Laundry

By: Jungeun Yun

3.40

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart. In this enc… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya   Smith

16. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

By: Tanya Smith

3.94

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of how a middle-class Black girl from Minneapolis became one of the single biggest t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York by Guy Trebay

17. Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York

By: Guy Trebay

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An evocative coming of age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead w… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania

By: Kathryn Hughes

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pe… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • animals
  • cats
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

19. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17) by Martin  Walker

20. A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)

By: Martin Walker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an arch… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Victorian Psycho

By: Virginia Feito

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the devious author of Mrs. March comes a gruesome and gleeful new novel that probes the psyche… read more

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4.37

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3.61

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4.19

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Tia Levings

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Michelle Moran

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