18 Best nonfiction books like Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too! by Sam Bentley

Cover of Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too! by Sam Bentley

Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!

By: Sam Bentley

4.47

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developmen…

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Cover of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) by Peter S. Beagle

1. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

By: Peter S. Beagle

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more

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"I love whom I love."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

Cover of The Opal Deception  (Artemis Fowl, #4) by Eoin Colfer

2. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)

By: Eoin Colfer

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The evil pixie Opal Koboi has spent the last year in a self-induced coma, plotting her revenge on a… read more

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3. Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

By: Sarah Addison Allen

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, … read more

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4. Saga, Vol. 4 (Saga, #4)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Sagais the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they … read more

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5. Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

From award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Pride of Baghdad, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed … read more

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6. A Piece of Cake

By: Cupcake Brown

4.24

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!"

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

7. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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8. Saga, Vol. 3 (Saga, #3)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From the Hugo Award-winning duo of Brian K. Vaughan (The Private Eye, Y: The Last Man) and Fiona St… read more

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9. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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
  • environment
  • nature
"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

Cover of Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali  Abdaal

11. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson

12. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**New York Times  Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry

13. The Magician’s Daughter

By: H.G. Parry

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more

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"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

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14. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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15. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón

16. L.A. Weather

By: María Amparo Escandón

3.18

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon … read more

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Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

17. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of In the Company of Witches (Evenfall Witches B&B, #1) by Auralee Wallace

18. In the Company of Witches (Evenfall Witches B&B, #1)

By: Auralee Wallace

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When a guest dies in the B&B she helps her aunts run, a young witch must rely on some good old-fash… read more

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Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

19. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott

20. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Cover of Go Gently: Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet by Bonnie  Wright

21. Go Gently: Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet

By: Bonnie Wright

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger

22. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

23. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Cover of Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

24. Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

By: Lindy West

3.90

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We’re going to make a fortune with this place,"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"Which, to be clear, I support. I was twenty-one in 2003, and tasteless shit isn’t just IN my blood, IT IS MY BLOOD. I crave excess!"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"From this point on, Edward is just constantly staring at Bella around corners and peeking at her from under manholes and disguising himself as a potted plant so he can watch her pee. Heads up: your c…"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

"Chris Tucker gives Jackie Chan his LAPD ID and tells him to pretend to be LAPD if anything goes sideways in the Foo Chow restaurant. Jackie Chan looks at the ID with Chris Tucker’s picture on it and …"

-Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

Cover of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

25. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Cover of Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

26. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

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"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

Cover of The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

27. The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu se… read more

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  • nonfiction
"the soft violence of willful ignorance"

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"It costs you nothing to err on the side of "care"."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"[about a character in movie Little Nicky] A hilarious, hilarious sex criminal."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

"Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness."

-Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

Cover of Illegally Yours: A Memoir by Rafael Agustin

28. Illegally Yours: A Memoir

By: Rafael Agustin

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolić

29. The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities

By: Zoran Nikolić

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. This beau… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too! by Sam Bentley

30. Good News, Planet Earth: What’s Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!

By: Sam Bentley

4.47

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developmen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • green

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