19 Best history books like MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman by Ben Hubbard

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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

By: Ben Hubbard

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya…

"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"

-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

If you liked the history plot in MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman by Ben Hubbard , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

By: Steve Coll

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the … read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business

2. The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

In "The Siege of Mecca," acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilli… read more

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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 Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

Similar categories in Vladislav M. Zubok's Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. 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

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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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6. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

By: Steve Coll

4.21

Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

By: Sam Dagher

4.29

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tla… read more

Similar categories in Sam Dagher's Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • islam
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Bit by bit, the uprising that had brought out the best in Syrians and projected their aspirations and yearnings was vanishing as pain, vengefulness, and war took over. It was yet another page from th…"

-Sam Dagher, Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

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10. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

Similar categories in Kim Ghattas's Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • islam
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

11. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street by Sujeet Indap

12. The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street

By: Sujeet Indap

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl fo… read more

Similar categories in Sujeet Indap's The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

13. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

Similar categories in Bradley Hope's Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
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14. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

By: Ben Hubbard

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more

Similar categories in Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • islam
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook
"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"

-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

15. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

Similar categories in Ramin Setoodeh's Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn by Nick Kostov

16. Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn

By: Nick Kostov

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business… read more

Similar categories in Nick Kostov's Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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17. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • audiobook
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19. America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present

By: John Ghazvinian

4.36

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century lo… read more

Similar categories in John Ghazvinian's America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

By: David Rundell

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Adv… read more

Similar categories in David Rundell's Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • islam
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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21. Madoff: The Final Word

By: Richard Behar

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more

Similar categories in Richard Behar's Madoff: The Final Word book and Ben Hubbard's MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman by Ben Hubbard

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll

4.21

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14 Best audiobook books like Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Coll

4.44

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