An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
By: Zeinab Badawi
3.97
Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Afric…
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1. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
2. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
4. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
5. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
6. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
10. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
13. 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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- africa
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- africa
- african literature
15. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
16. Korea: A New History of South and North
By: Victor Cha
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
By: Andy Burnham
4.37
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Picked as one of Waterstones' Non-Fiction 'Books You Need to Read in 2024' Gordon 'A path-bre… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
By: Zeinab Badawi
3.97
Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Afric… read more
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- audiobook
- africa
- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- african literature
- anthropology
19. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Hoe migratie echt werkt
By: Hein de Haas
4.43
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervan. Al jar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Happy Stories, Mostly
By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu
3.77
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve st… read more
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23. Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
By: Noo Saro-Wiwa
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVELChina today is a land of opportunity for African peo… read more
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- africa
- history
- nonfiction
24. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
25. The Immune Mind: The new science of health
By: Monty Lyman
4.32
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
'Superbly written with excellent insights... One of the best non-fiction books I've read!' Dr Rupy … read more
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- nonfiction
26. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time."-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"I wonder if the hypochondriac him or herself is a metaphor, a condensed node of ideas about illness crushed together into one individual. I am pressed between these layers of meaning like a flower pr…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Fairy tales and folklore are full of this moment: a potion to be swallowed that will transform or destroy a life....When life is especially difficult or hard, the notion that just a single action cou…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Illness is a story we tell about ourselves. The narrative is the connective tissue that joins together the symptoms and perceptions and makes sense of them. It's how impenetrable concepts like death …"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
27. The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
By: Giles Milton
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motl… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
By: Kehinde Andrews
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism con… read more
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- africa
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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- audiobook
