18 must-read nonfiction books like Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost

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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

By: J. Maarten Troost

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and…

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1. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak , William L. Simon

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech secu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Beware of geeks bearing gifts"

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

"Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza"

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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2. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

By: Paul Theroux

4.06

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

National BestsellerIn Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took th… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel."

-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

"You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time."

-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

"Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life."

-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

"The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road."

-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

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3. Batavia

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.25

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporati… read more

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  • travel
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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4. Seven Years in Tibet

By: Heinrich Harrer

4.10

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"

-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."

-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."

-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"

-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

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5. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

By: Richard Wagamese

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan

By: Michael Booth

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths an… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

By: Ann Vanderhoof

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

An Embarrassment of Mangoesis a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind -- and d… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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8. Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

By: J. Maarten Troost

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Company of Liars

By: Karen Maitland

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desp… read more

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10. In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest

By: M. Wylie Blanchet

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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12. McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

By: Pete McCarthy

3.76

Format: None pages,

The #1 Irish Bestseller Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that now… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction

13. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

By: Rita Golden Gelman

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

"I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and cons… read more

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14. The Curse of Lono

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman , Steve Crist

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A wild ride to the dark side of Americana The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was… read more

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15. The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

By: Paul Theroux

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took … read more

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16. My Secret: A PostSecret Book

By: Frank Warren

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The sensational PostSecret project returns with a never-before-seen collection of postacards create… read more

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17. Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

By: Anne Østby

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A novel of five lifelong friends who, in their sixties, decide to live together on a cocoa farm in … read more

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18. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

By: Paul Theroux

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more

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19. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

By: Mark Adams

3.64

Format: 211 pages,

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20. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)

By: Robyn Davidson

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more

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21. Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By: Amy Tan

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Cluband The Valley of AmazementAmy Tan… read more

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22. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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23. Call You When I Land

By: Nikki Vargas

3.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Call You When I Land is a soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and Fodor’s Travel Senior E… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Under The Wave At Waimea

By: Paul Theroux

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legenda… read more

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  • travel
  • audiobook
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25. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

By: Blythe Roberson

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more

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  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."

-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

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26. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

By: Will Grant

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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29. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

By: Jessica Hernandez

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World

By: Mike Higgins

3.80

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

The natural world has never been wilder—with 100 fiercely fun, curiously captivating, and amazingly… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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31. The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home

By: Kathi Lipp

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing] noun For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

13 must-read audiobook books like Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak , William L. Simon

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Paul Theroux

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Batavia

Peter FitzSimons

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

Richard Wagamese

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

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