6 must-read memoir books like The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan

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The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

By: Ann Morgan

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-lon…

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1. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Wi… read more

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"Para siempre un mensajero, Un viajero demorado, Errante como una pluma, Un marinero guiado por el viento."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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2. Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)

By: S. Jae-Jones

3.51

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy s… read more

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3. Ramayana

By: C. Rajagopalachari

3.41

Format: 94 pages,

Ramayana is one of the greatest epics of Hindu Religion.The author captures the pathos and beauty o… read more

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4. An African in Greenland

By: James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew th… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Nutcracker

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more

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6. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

By: Ann Morgan

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-lon… read more

Similar categories in Ann Morgan's The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe book and Ann Morgan's The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • adult
  • books about books

8. Love and Friendship

By: Jane Austen

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilli… read more

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9. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

By: Sheryl Sandberg , Adam M. Grant , Adam Grant

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of… read more

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10. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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  • adult
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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11. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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13. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • books about books
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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14. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke

17. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

By: Sue Burke

3.91

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more

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  • adult
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

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18. A Quantum Love Story

By: Mike Chen

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend… read more

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  • adult
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19. Books and Libraries: Poems

By: Andrew D. Scrimgeour

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poet collection of poems from around t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
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20. Better to Live

By: Alastair Campbell

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

By: Miroslav Volf

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom pu… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 must-read nonfiction books like The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan

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James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez

3.32

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William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

4.33

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Ann Morgan

4.24

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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

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T. Kingfisher

3.69

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Michelle Porter

3.84

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