8 Top nonfiction books like Iceland: Small World by Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson

Cover of Iceland: Small World by Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson

Iceland: Small World

By: Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson

4.56

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

A new panoramic book by the best selling photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson, an extremely beautifu…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Iceland: Small World by Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7)

By: Martin Walker

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of … read more

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2. Happy All the Time

By: Laurie Colwin

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming… read more

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3. Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspe… read more

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"It was precisely midnight when he stepped through the door. Taylor had said he wanted everyone in the Incident Room an hour before first light the next day, but Perez wasn't ready for sleep. As he sw…"

-Ann Cleeves, Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

4. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

By: Leigh Calvez

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more

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5. The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)

By: Martin Walker

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death--it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne… read more

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6. Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

By: David Treuer

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horiz… read more

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7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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8. A Nun in the Closet

By: Dorothy Gilman

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mysterious benefactor donates an old house to the abbey of Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe, brin… read more

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9. Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)

By: Martin Walker

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a po… read more

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10. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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11. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Stargazer (Leaphorn & Chee, #24)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Ti… read more

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13. The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

By: Mimi Matthews

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Victorian high society’s most daring equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight fo… read more

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"Wonderful things didn’t happen because one was cautious. They happened because one dared."

-Mimi Matthews, The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

"It’s not his responsibility to educate me. The ignorance is mine, and so must be the remedy for it."

-Mimi Matthews, The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)

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14. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

Cover of The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) by Anne Hillerman

15. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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Cover of The Sacred Bridge (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #25) by Anne Hillerman

16. The Sacred Bridge (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #25)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.21

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony."--Booklist An ancient myste… read more

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17. The Wind Knows My Name

By: Isabel Allende

4.03

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Se… read more

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"Hay que estar tranquilas. No estamos perdidas. El viento conoce mi nombre y también el tuyo… No hay que tener miedo."

-Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name

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18. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

By: Dolly Parton

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I wake up with new dreams everyday."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."

-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

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19. A Christmas Deliverance

By: Anne Perry

3.86

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

A courageous doctor and his apprentice fight to save London's poor--and discover that the hearts of… read more

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20. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.10

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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21. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

By: Deepa Anappara

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of card… read more

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"I like to spy on other families that are sad like ours because I want to find out if they are doing anything different to stop ghosts from clutching their bones."

-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

"Just because you read books doesn't mean you know everything," Faiz tells her. "I work. Life's the best teacher. Everyone says so." "Only people who can't read say such things," Pari says."

-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

"Bahadur's ma stays close to my ma, but she tiptoes around her as if she's afraid she'll step on Ma's sadness, which must be the same size and shape as Bahadur's ma's sadness, only a lot fresher."

-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

"I can smell Runu-Didi on her clothes and her pillow that has acquired a dip in the middle from the weight of her head. If I stare at it long enough, the snatcher or the bad djinn who has caught Didi …"

-Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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22. Charm City Rocks

By: Matthew Norman

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When a single dad meets the former rock star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew … read more

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23. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

By: Deirdre Mask

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky

By: Margaret Verble

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pul… read more

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25. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family

By: Bettye Kearse

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"A Roots for a new generation, rich in storytelling and steeped in history." —Kirkus Reviews, Starr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Writer's Cats

By: Muriel Barbery

3.82

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes this delightful, delicate tale t… read more

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27. Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook

By: Ricky Moore

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Ricky Moore was born and reared in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern, where catching and … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. The Bible Year Devotional: A Journey Through Scripture in 365 Days

By: Magrey Devega

4.40

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bible. 365 days. You. Yes, you! Not the type to sit down and read the entire Bible? Yes, the go… read more

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Cover of Iceland: Small World by Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson

29. Iceland: Small World

By: Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson

4.56

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

A new panoramic book by the best selling photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson, an extremely beautifu… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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30. Lost People

By: Margaret Elphinstone

4.21

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A short novel from one of Scotland’s renowned writers. In a fractured dystopic future, the child R… read more

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31. Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South

By: Emily Wallace

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated glovebox essential, Road Sides explores the fundamentals of a well-fed road trip thr… read more

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14 Top adult books like Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Transform Your Habits

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Heather Radke

3.75

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