13 best-selling nonfiction books like The Islands Book (Lonely Planet) by Lonely Planet

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The Islands Book (Lonely Planet)

By: Lonely Planet

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Islands have long been a source of fascination for travellers and there's an endless variety to exp…

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1. The River Between

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.79

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white… read more

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2. Summer

By: Edith Wharton

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more

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3. Say You're Sorry (Morgan Dane, #1)

By: Melinda Leigh

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a new series from Wall Street Journalbestselling author Melinda Leigh, former prosecutor Morgan … read more

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4. Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"

By: Don Malarkey , Bob Welch

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Flower Net (Red Princess, #1)

By: Lisa See

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

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6. Radium Girls

By: Cy.

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

New Jersey, 1918. Edna Bolz entre comme ouvrière à l’United State Radium Corporation, une usine qui… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1) by Harini Nagendra

8. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

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9. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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10. The Taste of Ginger

By: Mansi Shah

3.99

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the … read more

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"Had I lost my culture? I felt like I was constantly reminded that I was Indian—at work, at a store, when talking to white friends—some part of me was always aware that I wasn’t like the other people …"

-Mansi Shah, The Taste of Ginger

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11. Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day

By: Sophie Blackall

4.19

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Everyone needs things to look forward big things and small things, on good days and on bad days, w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Puma Years

By: Laura Coleman

4.34

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating jour… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"The jungle really seems to listen to everything. I've never felt so vulnerable. It won't stop listening, and I don't know how to tell it that I hate it."

-Laura Coleman, The Puma Years

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13. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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14. Between Two Strangers

By: Kate White

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A woman receives a bewildering inheritance that may have something to do with her past in this twis… read more

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15. Vacationland

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more

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16. The Lying Club

By: Annie Ward

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"If you loved Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere , allow me to introduce you to your next … read more

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17. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more

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"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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18. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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19. Good Housekeeping One-Pot Magic: 180 Warm & Wonderful Recipes

By: Good Housekeeping

3.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Whip up fast and delicious one-pot meals that take full advantage of all your favorite appliances a… read more

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20. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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21. Feelings: A Story in Seasons

By: Manjit Thapp

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions--from the saturated highs of e… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

22. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

By: Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more

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23. My Wife is Missing

By: D.J. Palmer

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two childr… read more

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24. The Angel Maker

By: Alex North

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the… read more

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25. All About Cookies: A Milk Bar Baking Book

By: Christina Tosi

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A mind-blowing collection of more than 100 new cookie recipes and inspi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Southern Living 2022 Annual Recipes (Southern Living Annual Recipes)

By: Southern Living Inc.

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Southern Living graciously invites you to enjoy the latest annual compilation of top-rated recipes … read more

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27. Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind: An Interior Design Book

By: Bobby Berk

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The design expert and Emmy-nominated TV host of Netflix’s Queer Eye shows you how to set up your sp… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sam the Cooking Guy: Between the Buns: Burgers, Sandwiches, Tacos, Burritos, Hot Dogs & More by Sam Zien

28. Sam the Cooking Guy: Between the Buns: Burgers, Sandwiches, Tacos, Burritos, Hot Dogs & More

By: Sam Zien

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What turns chili and cheese into a burger? The bun. Carne asada into a taco? The tortilla. Grilled … read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. William

By: Mason Coile

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more

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Cover of The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1) by Kat Ailes

30. The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1)

By: Kat Ailes

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of s… read more

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31. The Islands Book (Lonely Planet)

By: Lonely Planet

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Islands have long been a source of fascination for travellers and there's an endless variety to exp… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction

19 Top fiction books like The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1) by Harini Nagendra

Transform Your Habits

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

Vaseem Khan

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star

Vaseem Khan

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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