8 best-selling nonfiction books like Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner by Jamie Bowman

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Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

By: Jamie Bowman

4.21

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly “feline sex-fest” in Kyiv, bribing Russia…

"Our countries are like our families. It’s fine for us to find fault with our own, but I don’t like it when other people feel free to criticize my family and expect me to agree and join in the condemnation."

-Jamie Bowman, Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

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1. How to be Champion: My Autobiography

By: Sarah Millican

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden w… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Angle of Repose

By: Wallace Stegner

3.56

Format: None pages,

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more

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3. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

By: Kathleen Rooney

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverse… read more

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4. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more

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5. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • travel
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6. You Never Know: A Memoir

By: Tom Selleck

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Alligators Eat Marshmallows (And Other Things I Learned On My 10,000 Mile Road Trip Around The USA!): A Comedy Memoir

By: Tony James Slater

4.46

Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition

“Show me America!” he cried out to the people. “Okay,” they replied, their voices a roar… “You aske… read more

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  • travel
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8. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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9. Watch Us Shine

By: Marisa de los Santos

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Bring me the Northern Lights.” Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when… read more

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10. A Parthenon on our Roof: Adventures of an Anglo-Greek marriage

By: Peter Barber

4.41

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In A Parthenon On Our Roof, we meet Alexandra, a product of Greek Fire. Born into the cradle of civ… read more

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  • travel
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11. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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12. The Better Half

By: Alli Frank

3.89

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. Wi… read more

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13. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

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14. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

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"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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15. The Pear Field

By: Nana Ekvtimishvili

3.72

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In post-soviet Georgia, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, on the corner of Kerch St., is an orphanage. I… read more

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"It seems reasonable to assume that the minute Irma walks into Venera and Goderdzi's home she will take off her while wedding dress, take up the yoke of domestic duties and work like a mule until her …"

-Nana Ekvtimishvili, The Pear Field

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16. The Stolen Coast

By: Dwyer Murphy

3.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more

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"The experience was collective, but not the memory."

-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast

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17. Keep This Off the Record

By: Arden Joy

3.50

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Abigail Meyer and Freya Jonsson can’t stand one another. But could their severe hatred be maskin… read more

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18. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

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"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

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19. Factory Girls

By: Michelle Gallen

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more

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"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

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20. Fat Dogs and Welsh Estates

By: Beth Haslam

4.80

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a land protected by craggy mountains, lapped by whispering seas, and guarded by mighty fort… read more

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21. Hello, Transcriber (Black Harbor, #1)

By: Hannah Morrissey

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female po… read more

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22. BUTTER SIDE UP, THANK GOD!: A MEMOIR

By: Tina Wagner Mattern

4.36

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

This memoir is the true, no holds barred story of my incredibly blessed, ridiculously messy life. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Bucket To Greece, Volume One

By: V.D. Bucket

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Abandoned in a bucket…to new adventures in Greece.Bucket to Greece is a delightfully comical accoun… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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24. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

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"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

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25. Lucky Jack

By: S. Bavey

4.70

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

"One of the perils of being a sniper during the First World War was the likelihood of a grenade goi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Don't Eat the Puffin: Tales From a Travel Writer's Life

By: Jules Brown

4.21

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published as Takoradi to the Stars (via Huddersfield) by Jules Brown It's the job of … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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27. Fortunate Isle: A Memoir of Tenerife

By: Ronald Mackay

4.74

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In 1960, with a mere 40 in his pocket, 18-year-old Ronald Mackay hitched from Scotland to Spain the… read more

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28. My Mother Cursed My Name

By: Anamely Salgado Reyes

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they… read more

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29. Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

By: Jamie Bowman

4.21

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly “feline sex-fest” in Kyiv, bribing Russia… read more

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"Our countries are like our families. It’s fine for us to find fault with our own, but I don’t like it when other people feel free to criticize my family and expect me to agree and join in the condemn…"

-Jamie Bowman, Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

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30. Professor Wiztinkle and Ginormous Jay vs. Fartina Stincovich!

By: Jeff Pfeiffer

5.00

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Blimps/dirigibles! Sewers, rats, cheese, and a mutant alligator! A flying van! A scorpion drone! Kar… read more

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31. Tracing God's Hand: Finding Hope and Freedom from Fear

By: Phyllis Kester

4.88

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Job loss. A head-on car collision. The death of a child. Phyllis and Monty Kester survived all thes… read more

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