10 Best nonfiction books like Line Color Form: The Language of Art and Design by Jesse Day

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Line Color Form: The Language of Art and Design

By: Jesse Day

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“For those of us teaching higher education in art and design schools, Line Color Form is the answer…

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1. Farewell Summer (Green Town, #3)

By: Ray Bradbury

4.31

Format: None pages,

In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to… read more

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2. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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3. Zen in the Art of Writing

By: Ray Bradbury

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion,… read more

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4. Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries, #1)

By: Ben Rehder

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a… read more

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5. Ragtime

By: E.L. Doctorow

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more

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"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

6. Taft

By: Ann Patchett

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is tak… read more

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7. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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8. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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9. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

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10. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

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"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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11. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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12. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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13. Lost Children Archive

By: Valeria Luiselli

3.81

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more

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"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

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14. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

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"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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15. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

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16. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

3.67

Format: 153 pages, ebook

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more

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17. The Office of Historical Corrections

By: Danielle Evans

4.18

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more

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"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

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18. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

By: Ryder Carroll

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's part organization, part soul-searching, part dream-weaving."

-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

"In the most connected time in history, we're quickly losing touch with ourselves."

-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

"Prioritize the items you feel strongest about or are the most time sensitive, and strike off the items you feel “meh"

-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not enitrely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."

-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

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19. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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20. Free Lunch

By: Rex Ogle

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot."

-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch

"On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! A chill runs up my spine. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it cos…"

-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch

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21. The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder

By: John Glatt

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Col… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Cover of Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1) by Ben Alderson

23. Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1)

By: Ben Alderson

3.56

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Shade of Vampire – but with added spice!Jak’s life has… read more

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"Marius’s laugh set my skin afire."

-Ben Alderson, Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1)

"Flames danced around my fingers, ready and waiting for release."

-Ben Alderson, Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1)

"Let me listen to your story if you count yourself a storyteller."

-Ben Alderson, Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1)

"You will need to convince yourself first before you can convince me to believe that."

-Ben Alderson, Lord of Eternal Night (Darkmourn Universe, #1)

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24. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

25. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Swordcrossed

By: Freya Marske

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“Clever, sparkling, and perfectly indulgent, Swordcrossed feels like stepping into a party already … read more

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27. The Book Censor's Library

By: بثينة العيسى

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret libraries, and the looming eye of an all-… read more

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"وحدهم الذين يضعون اللوائح يحق لهم كسرها ."

-بثينة العيسى, The Book Censor's Library

"لا يمكننا السفر عبر الزمن إلا من خلال القصص"

-بثينة العيسى, The Book Censor's Library

"ورغم أنه أدرك القاع، إلا أن قلبه ما زال يهوي."

-بثينة العيسى, The Book Censor's Library

"تحدث اختلالات مروعة في توازنات العالم عندما تتم مصادرة حكاية، كما لو أن المكان يظلم أكثر."

-بثينة العيسى, The Book Censor's Library

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28. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

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29. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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30. Rental House

By: Weike Wang

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as se… read more

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31. Line Color Form: The Language of Art and Design

By: Jesse Day

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“For those of us teaching higher education in art and design schools, Line Color Form is the answer… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design

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