10 Top business books like Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel

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Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

By: Erich Schwartzel

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business…

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1. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

By: William Friedkin

4.13

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The Fren… read more

Similar categories in William Friedkin's The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • audiobook
Cover of The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert  Evans

2. The Kid Stays in the Picture

By: Robert Evans

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with … read more

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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • audiobook
Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

3. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

4. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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5. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

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  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

6. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

By: Joanna Robinson

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Robinson's MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

9. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

10. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill

11. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

Similar categories in Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

12. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel

13. Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

By: Erich Schwartzel

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business… read more

Similar categories in Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • politics
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

14. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery

15. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen

By: Brian Raftery

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette

16. It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

By: Felix Gillette

4.03

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media repo… read more

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  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap) by Rush Doshi

17. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)

By: Rush Doshi

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop

18. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Cover of The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

19. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

Similar categories in Bill Hammack's The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

20. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture by Mark Bergen

21. Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture

By: Mark Bergen

3.74

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, indust… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bergen's Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd

22. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

By: Kevin Rudd

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong

23. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more

Similar categories in Chun Han Wong's Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix by Dade Hayes

24. Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

By: Dade Hayes

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment bus… read more

Similar categories in Dade Hayes's Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

25. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

By: Jing Tsu

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more

Similar categories in Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin

26. Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

By: Josh Chin

4.16

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gr… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of The World According to China by Elizabeth C. Economy

27. The World According to China

By: Elizabeth C. Economy

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherew… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth C. Economy's The World According to China book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind by Melissa S. Kearney

28. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

3.88

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more

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  • cultural
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up by Margaret Wappler

29. A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up

By: Margaret Wappler

3.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wappler's A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up book and Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Correa told him that people, including fictional ones, grieve in different ways. You can be a puddle of tears. Or angry and punch a wall. Or quiet with seemingly no reaction. It is nobody's business.…"

-Margaret Wappler, A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up

Cover of Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise by Scott Rozelle

30. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

By: Scott Rozelle

4.24

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

31. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook

29 must-read audiobook books like Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel

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William Friedkin

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Robert Evans

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4.44

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