13 must-read nonfiction books like Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow

Cover of Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow

Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own

By: Margaret Winslow

3.60

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overwor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

By: Stacey O'Brien

4.10

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing,… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"To that which you tame, you owe your life."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"Refusing to do your bidding is not the same as stupid."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"It was a lot like working at Hogwarts, except that, instead of receiving letters from our owls, we would find coughed-up owl pellets in our coffee mugs."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"Wesley was always outraged when he woke himself up with a screech in his sleep, and he blamed me. He would whip around to face me with an intense librarian’s stare as if I had broken a cardinal rule."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

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2. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

By: Farley Mowat

4.21

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Cover of Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings by Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford

3. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By: Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Every time i see a butterfly, it reminds me of how precious life can truly be. To be able to turn from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly and fly away so freely and gracefully wherever she may …"

-Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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4. A Long Way Down

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts… read more

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  • humor
"The fuck?"

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"i love god soo much, but he like butt raping."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"I can handle the pain, it's the hope that kills me."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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5. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

By: Blair Braverman

3.80

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norw… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Good Lord Bird

By: James McBride

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy … read more

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8. The Women in the Castle

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of Germ… read more

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Cover of Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios by Holly Conklin FitzGerald

9. Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

By: Holly Conklin FitzGerald

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz--married less than two years--set out on a yearlong honeymoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Full of Grace

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, wasn't easy for the Russo family--difficul… read more

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Cover of Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Jeffrey Zaslow, Chesley B. Sullenberger III

11. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. Secrets of a Charmed Life

By: Susan Meissner

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from which there c… read more

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13. Lowcountry Summer (Lowcountry Tales, #7)

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

2.62

Format: None pages,

Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laid-b… read more

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14. Bulls Island

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Hardcover

It has been years since Elizabeth "Betts" McGee has returned to her once-adored Bulls Island in the… read more

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15. 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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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • animals
"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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16. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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  • animals
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17. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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18. All My Secrets

By: Lynn Austin

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opul… read more

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19. The Little Village of Book Lovers

By: Nina George

3.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true lo… read more

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20. Switchboard Soldiers

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.07

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of … read more

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21. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

Cover of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

22. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
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23. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

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24. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

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25. Where the Blue Sky Begins

By: Katie Powner

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

*2023 Christy Award winner and Selah Award finalist* Sometimes the hardest road of all is the ro… read more

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26. The Council of Animals

By: Nick McDonell

3.58

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

A captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) … read more

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  • animals
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27. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

28. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Margaret Winslow's Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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29. My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors

By: Lindsay McCrae

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor pe… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass by Katie Powner

30. The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass

By: Katie Powner

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl,… read more

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Cover of Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow

31. Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own

By: Margaret Winslow

3.60

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overwor… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Winslow's Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own book and Margaret Winslow's Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • animals
  • nonfiction

9 Top biography books like Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own by Margaret Winslow

Transform Your Habits

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

Stacey O'Brien

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Farley Mowat

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Blair Braverman

3.80

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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

Transform Your Habits

Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

3.75

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