6 best-selling history books like The Only Woman by Immy Humes

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The Only Woman

By: Immy Humes

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As seen in The New York Times , The Atlantic , and The Telegraph A compelling gallery of women who …

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1. Hunting Hour (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #3)

By: Margaret Mizushima

4.25

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Deputy Mattie Cobb is working through issues from her past and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and h… read more

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2. Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more

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3. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)

By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more

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4. Das Muschelessen

By: Birgit Vanderbeke

3.64

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Angespannt wartet die Familie am gedeckten Tisch auf den Vater. Mutter, Tochter und Sohn sitzen vor… read more

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5. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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6. Proust, roman familial

By: Laure Murat

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

«Toute mon adolescence, j'ai entendu parler des personnages d' À la recherche du temps perdu , pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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8. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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10. 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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11. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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12. My Heart Will Find You

By: Jude Deveraux

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Their love refused to stay quiet, echoing across time… When the world is brought to a standstill… read more

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13. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • art
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14. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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15. No todo el mundo

By: Marta Jiménez Serrano

4.15

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Una visión caleidoscópica del amor que nace y muere en la gran ciudad Marcelo y Eloísa no lo sab… read more

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"No hay nada peor que pasar de la intimidad al protocolo."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo

"Siempre está bien tener un vicio, para tener la ilusión de poder dejarlo."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo

"Cabe señalar que para encontarse no solo hay que verse: hay que verse a la vez."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo

"De repente les gustas más por acariciar un gato. Ser hombre a veces es muy sencillo."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, No todo el mundo

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16. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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18. Le coeur sur la table: Pour une révolution romantique

By: Victoire Tuaillon

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Après Les Couilles sur la table, place au Cœur sur la table, le nouveau livre de Victoire Tuaillon,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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19. The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor

By: Keegan-Michael Key

3.90

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"A boisterous debut … the authors are as funny as one would expect … this is a hoot.” ― Publishers … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary

By: Melissa Murray

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. The Only Woman

By: Immy Humes

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As seen in The New York Times , The Atlantic , and The Telegraph A compelling gallery of women who … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • feminism
  • photography
  • nonfiction

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Laure Murat

3.88

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David von Drehle

4.00

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Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

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Deena Mohamed

4.50

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Nghi Vo

4.04

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4.24

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3.95

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