5 must-read history books like King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon by Ronald Winston

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King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon

By: Ronald Winston

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This authoritative and intimate biography, written by his only living son, Ronald Winston, marries …

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1. The Rules of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Find your magic For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was char… read more

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2. Moloka'i

By: Alan Brennert

3.78

Format: None pages,

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a l… read more

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3. 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

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4. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

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5. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

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"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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6. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

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"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

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7. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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8. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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9. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

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10. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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11. The Brightest Star

By: Gail Tsukiyama

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023 “A writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and f… read more

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"Perhaps the dull ache I'm feeling comes from letting go, the realization that some memories should be left as just that, a moment in time when the fruits of life are at their sweetest."

-Gail Tsukiyama, The Brightest Star

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12. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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13. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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14. The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

By: Francesca Cartier Brickell

4.24

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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15. An American Beauty

By: Shana Abe

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella … read more

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16. Becoming Mrs. Lewis

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.05

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found he… read more

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"I'm trying because I must."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"If you knew all the answers, there'd be no need for trust, little one."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

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17. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

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18. Anna: The Biography

By: Amy Odell

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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19. Great Blue Hills of God

By: Kreis Beall

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The creative force behind Blackberry Farm, Tennessee's award-winning farm-to-table resort, reveals … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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20. California Golden

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters navigate the turbulent, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling… read more

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21. Vladimir

By: Julia May Jonas

3.44

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more

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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

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22. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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23. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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24. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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25. Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history.

By: William Zeckendorf

4.18

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Not since the days of the Louisiana Purchase has America seen any bigger real estate transactions t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams

By: M.J. Rose

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating tale of two passionate women separated by decades but united by a shared vision. One,… read more

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27. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

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28. The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic

By: Peter Shapiro

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The engrossing, insightful, and personal musical odyssey of Peter Shapiro, perhaps the most notable… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Forgetting to Remember

By: M.J. Rose

4.25

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling … read more

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30. King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon

By: Ronald Winston

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This authoritative and intimate biography, written by his only living son, Ronald Winston, marries … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

31. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

By: Ina Garten

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

10 must-read nonfiction books like King of Diamonds: Harry Winston, the Definitive Biography of an American Icon by Ronald Winston

Transform Your Habits

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

3.32

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Francesca Cartier Brickell

4.24

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Anna: The Biography

Amy Odell

3.78

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Kreis Beall

4.30

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Catherine Newman

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