Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do …
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1. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
By: Jason K. Stearns
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations… read more
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- africa
- history
- world history
- rwanda
- politics
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"As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the grea…"-Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
2. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
By: Tim Butcher
3.98
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the… read more
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"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
3. The Mission Song
By: John Le Carré
3.47
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone… read more
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- politics
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- crime
- audiobook
4. The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
By: Robert L. O'Connell
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph ove… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
5. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
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7. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more
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8. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
By: Roméo Dallaire , Samantha Power
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the 10th anniversary of when UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada proudly publi… read more
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9. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.46
Format: 272 pages,
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day … read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- africa
- history
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- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
12. 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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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- africa
- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
14. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- audiobook
16. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do … read more
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- world history
- rwanda
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
18. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
19. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
By: Paul Kenyon
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more
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- war
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20. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
By: Howard W. French
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more
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- audiobook
22. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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- true crime
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- crime
- audiobook
24. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
By: Azam Ahmed
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more
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- crime
- audiobook
25. Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
By: Patrick Winn
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state — and America’s … read more
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- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
26. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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- audiobook
27. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
By: Gideon Rachman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
28. A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
By: Alan S. Blinder
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kenn… read more
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29. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- war
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30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
31. Über Kriege und wie man sie beendet: Zehn Thesen
By: Jörn Leonhard
3.33
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Frieden schaffen – aber wie? Kaum eine Frage ist gegenwärtig so drängend und gleichzeitig so umstri… read more
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