7 Best nonfiction books like Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller

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Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

By: Peter Miller

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. “…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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2. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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3. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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4. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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5. Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

By: Paul Yamazaki

4.22

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of t… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yamazaki's Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. April May June July

By: Alison B. Hart

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more

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7. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

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8. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

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11. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

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12. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

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13. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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14. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

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15. Clara Reads Proust

By: Stéphane Carlier

3.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, pep… read more

Similar categories in Stéphane Carlier's Clara Reads Proust book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

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16. Tell It to Me Singing

By: Tita Ramírez

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more

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17. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

By: Ally Carter

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

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18. 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

Similar categories in Evan Friss's The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
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19. A Bit Much

By: Lyndsay Rush

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyfu… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsay Rush's A Bit Much book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations by Peter Miller

20. Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

By: Peter Miller

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. “… read more

Similar categories in Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations book and Peter Miller's Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, and Observations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Second Tide's the Charm

By: Chandra Blumberg

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Love puts you in uncharted waters. At first glance, Hope Evans just landed the perfect spending… read more

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4.22

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4.12

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