17 Top nonfiction books like The Kentucky Cave Wars by David Kem

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The Kentucky Cave Wars

By: David Kem

3.67

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Eighty-two square miles of rolling hills and valleys in south-central Kentucky make up Mammoth Cave…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Kentucky Cave Wars by David Kem , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Cades Cove Story

By: A. Randolph Shields

3.85

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Mr. Shields tells the fascinating story of this beautiful, lively, mountain community. Learn about … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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  • nonfiction
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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3. Relic (Pendergast, #1)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visi… read more

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4. Last Chance to See

By: Douglas Adams , Mark Carwardine

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlive… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more

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6. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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7. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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8. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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9. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Corrie ten Boom

3.81

Format: None pages,

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell… read more

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10. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

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"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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11. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • nonfiction
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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12. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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13. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

Similar categories in Adam M. Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • nonfiction
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14. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte

4.20

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more

Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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15. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • nonfiction
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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16. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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17. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklaho… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?"

-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

"The Osage elders sang the traditional songs for the dead, only now the songs seemed for the living, for those who had to endure this world of killing."

-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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18. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Sold on a Monday

By: Kristina McMorris

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures th… read more

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21. Bushwhacker: Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand

By: Samuel S. Hildebrand

4.08

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Bushwhackers in the American Civil War operated as guerrillas, outside the normal chain of military… read more

Similar categories in Samuel S. Hildebrand's Bushwhacker: Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

By: Maureen Johnson

4.14

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone w… read more

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"It’s good to be home,"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"Let her have her moose."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"The universe paid me in moose"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"She was exactly who she wanted to be."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

Cover of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2) by Maureen Johnson

23. The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

By: Maureen Johnson

4.14

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

All Stevie Bell wanted was to find the key to the Ellingham mystery, but instead she found her clas… read more

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"What did you do?"

-Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

"Do you read much, George?"

-Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

"she was color and glitter and chaos"

-Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

"No moose," Stevie said. "The moose is a lie."

-Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)

24. Murder in the Afternoon

By: Ella Jo Sadler

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines

25. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

By: Ben Raines

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more

Similar categories in Ben Raines's The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Into the Mist: Tales of Death and Disaster by David Brill

26. Into the Mist: Tales of Death and Disaster

By: David Brill

3.98

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Carefully crafted book titles allow the reader to peek through a tiny opening and experience a glim… read more

Similar categories in David Brill's Into the Mist: Tales of Death and Disaster book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Everything All at Once

By: Stephanie Catudal

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  Bestseller  An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the univer… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Land Between The Lakes Outdoor Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Hiking, Camping, Fishing, and Nature Study in Western Tennessee and Kentucky by Johnny Molloy

28. Land Between The Lakes Outdoor Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Hiking, Camping, Fishing, and Nature Study in Western Tennessee and Kentucky

By: Johnny Molloy

4.00

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Land Between The Lakes Outdoor Handbook, by Johnny Molloy, is the only comprehensive guide to the m… read more

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29. Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine

By: Victoria Cosner

3.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Cosner's Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine book and David Kem's The Kentucky Cave Wars

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Kentucky Cave Wars by David Kem

30. The Kentucky Cave Wars

By: David Kem

3.67

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Eighty-two square miles of rolling hills and valleys in south-central Kentucky make up Mammoth Cave… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Boston Freedom Trail: In Words and Pictures by Robert Wheeler

31. The Boston Freedom Trail: In Words and Pictures

By: Robert Wheeler

3.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A moving and informative guidebook and a keepsake worthy of coffee table d display, here is a fully… read more

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10 Best history books like The Kentucky Cave Wars by David Kem

Transform Your Habits

The Cades Cove Story

A. Randolph Shields

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes Everything

Sally McRae

4.48

Transform Your Habits

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

4.08

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Lauren Fleshman

4.47

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