16 must-read nonfiction books like Mustn't Grumble: The Surprising Science of Everyday Ailments and Why We’re Always a Bit Ill by Graham Lawton

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Mustn't Grumble: The Surprising Science of Everyday Ailments and Why We’re Always a Bit Ill

By: Graham Lawton

3.75

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating and insightful book about the multitude of minor ailments that we live with every day…

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1. The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

By: Mark Haddon

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the N… read more

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2. 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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3. The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills

By: Tristan Gooley

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside,… read more

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4. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

By: Deepak Chopra

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within is pages are the secrets of making all y… read more

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5. Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1)

By: Giovanna Fletcher

4.08

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE . . . … read more

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6. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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7. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson

8. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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9. Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

By: Maisie Hill

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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10. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris  Broad

11. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

12. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

13. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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14. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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15. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

By: Susie Dent

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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17. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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18. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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19. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

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"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

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20. Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life

By: Hayley Morris

3.97

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Brain: We left the oven on! Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this! Brain: The house i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

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22. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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23. An Unwanted Inheritance

By: Imogen Clark

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Reluctantly Home comes a story of three siblings and a suitcase full… read more

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24. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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25. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

By: Katy Watson

3.77

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more

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"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."

-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

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26. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By: Paul Nurse

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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27. Dinosaur Philosophy

By: James Stewart

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

from the international bestselling team behind dinosaur therapy , @dinosaurcouch including exclusiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lady Joker, Volume One by Kaoru Takamura

28. Lady Joker, Volume One

By: Kaoru Takamura

3.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

One of Japan’s great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two… read more

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29. This Wild, Wild Country

By: Inga Vesper

3.53

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery. They hate me down there, in Boldville. I c… read more

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Cover of Mustn't Grumble: The Surprising Science of Everyday Ailments and Why We’re Always a Bit Ill by Graham Lawton

30. Mustn't Grumble: The Surprising Science of Everyday Ailments and Why We’re Always a Bit Ill

By: Graham Lawton

3.75

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating and insightful book about the multitude of minor ailments that we live with every day… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health

8 best-selling science books like Mustn't Grumble: The Surprising Science of Everyday Ailments and Why We’re Always a Bit Ill by Graham Lawton

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You

Maisie Hill

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

Susie Dent

4.30

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Transform Your Habits

Heart and Brain: Body Language: An Awkward Yeti Collection

The Awkward Yeti , Nick Seluk

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection

The Awkward Yeti , Nick Seluk

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Heart and Brain: Gut Instincts: An Awkward Yeti Collection

The Awkward Yeti , Nick Seluk

4.36

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Cryptid Club

Sarah Andersen

4.27

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