Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
By: Dervla Murphy
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
Dervla Murphy spent eight months in Transylvania - and beyond - sharing the everyday lives of ordin…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.76
Format: None pages,
Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II wa… read more
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3. Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir
By: Dervla Murphy
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
Dervla Murphy spent eight months in Transylvania - and beyond - sharing the everyday lives of ordin… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- romania
- nonfiction
4. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.01
Format: 30 pages,
When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more
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5. The Mothers
By: Brit Bennett
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, … read more
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6. Reasons to Stay Alive
By: Matt Haig
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-af… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
7. The Night Diary
By: Veera Hiranandani
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal,… read more
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8. The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway, #6)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.60
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Elly Griffiths draws us all the way back to prehistoric times . . . Highly atmospheric." -- New Yo… read more
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9. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more
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10. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
11. The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway, #7)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson … read more
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12. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
13. A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway investigates a heart-stopping an old university friend and fel… read more
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"You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up mode…"-Elly Griffiths, A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)
14. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
15. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
By: Naomi Alderman
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more
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16. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
17. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
18. Calypso
By: David Sedaris
4.11
Format: 272 pages, ebook
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever la… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"In France the most often used word is “connerie,"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other."-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We’re like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other’s hands and missing every time"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award."-David Sedaris, Calypso
19. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
By: Tina Brown
4.03
Format: 571 pages, Hardcover
The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
20. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.41
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more
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21. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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22. The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor—until Nelso… read more
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"It's a locked room mystery,' says Tony. 'Like in the books.' 'Nothing,' says Nelson, 'is like it is in the books."-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewh…"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested …"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
"There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city ga…"-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
23. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
24. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.93
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more
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25. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
26. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
27. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a … read more
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28. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more
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29. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more
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"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
30. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more
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31. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
