9 must-read nonfiction books like Fuglar by Hjörleifur Hjartarson

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Fuglar

By: Hjörleifur Hjartarson

4.37

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Varúð! Þetta er ekki góð fuglagreiningarbók. Fuglarnir í henni eru illa teiknaðir og textinn ful…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Fuglar by Hjörleifur Hjartarson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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2. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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3. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

4. The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

By: Gretel Ehrlich

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter-for remote and cold places, for the w… read more

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5. Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

By: Emily Oster

4.15

Format: 130 pages,

What to Expect When You're Expectingmeets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standa… read more

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6. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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7. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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8. Once There Were Wolves

By: Charlotte McConaghy

4.10

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in th… read more

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"Can’t track wolves, not really."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Wolves don't need forests, they grow them."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Then take from me. I have more than enough."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

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9. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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10. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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11. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

By: Emily Oster

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"

-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

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12. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian (Lightfall, #1)

By: Tim Probert

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Deep in the heart of the planet Irpa stands the Salty Pig’s House of Tonics & Tinctures, home of th… read more

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13. Bewilderment

By: Richard Powers

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more

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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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14. Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliber… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery

15. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

By: Sy Montgomery

4.14

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Around the World in 80 Birds

By: Mike Unwin

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the from the Sociable Weave… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Fuglar

By: Hjörleifur Hjartarson

4.37

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Varúð! Þetta er ekki góð fuglagreiningarbók. Fuglarnir í henni eru illa teiknaðir og textinn ful… read more

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