16 must-read audiobook books like This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah

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This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

By: Ben Judah

4.26

Format: 643 pages, Kindle Edition

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends o…

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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

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2. 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

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3. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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5. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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7. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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8. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

9. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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13. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

By: Tim Shipman

4.31

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

15. Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It

By: Chris Bryant

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, n… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

By: Edward Shawcross

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into pow… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis

17. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

By: Emily Maitlis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah

18. This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

By: Ben Judah

4.26

Format: 643 pages, Kindle Edition

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends o… read more

Similar categories in Ben Judah's This is Europe: The Way We Live Now book and Ben Judah's This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

19. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

By: Hannah Barnes

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

17 best-selling history books like This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

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Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

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