12 must-read football books like On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World by Shaul Adar

Cover of On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World by Shaul Adar

On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World

By: Shaul Adar

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In December 2020, an Israeli football club made worldwide headlines. The news that a UAE royal had …

If you liked the football plot in On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World by Shaul Adar , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World's Ultimate Underdogs to Glory by Paul Watson, Paul            Watson

1. Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World's Ultimate Underdogs to Glory

By: Paul Watson , Paul Watson

4.21

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

After one too many late-night discussions, football fanatic Paul Watson and his mate Matt Conrad ha… read more

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Cover of Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World by James Ball, James     Ball

2. Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World

By: James Ball , James Ball

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which … read more

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  • politics
Cover of Hamas: A Beginner's Guide by Khaled Hroub

3. Hamas: A Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Hroub

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

An up-to-date analysis of the problems faced by Iran's Kurdish population read more

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  • politics
Cover of Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game by Marc Bennetts

4. Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game

By: Marc Bennetts

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1991, the collapse of the USSR seemed to signal the death of the Russian football industry, as t… read more

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5. Racing Through the Dark

By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more

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6. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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7. 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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"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

Cover of The Trial by Rob Rinder

8. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

Cover of Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John  Preston

9. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

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  • politics
Cover of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch by Bob Mortimer

10. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch

By: Bob Mortimer

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whiteho… read more

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Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • politics
Cover of The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

12. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

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  • politics
Cover of Scheisse! We're Going Up! by Kit Holden

13. Scheisse! We're Going Up!

By: Kit Holden

4.42

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more

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Cover of The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club by Simon Kuper

14. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

By: Simon Kuper

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more

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  • football
Cover of Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

15. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Cover of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

16. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

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Cover of The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

17. The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.96

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com… read more

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"Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!"

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don’t know whether to laugh or cry."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

Cover of On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World by Shaul Adar

18. On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World

By: Shaul Adar

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In December 2020, an Israeli football club made worldwide headlines. The news that a UAE royal had … read more

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  • politics
  • football
Cover of The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Clubs by Stewart McGill

19. The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Clubs

By: Stewart McGill

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

With the world turning rightwards and democracy looking at its most precarious since the 1930s, the… read more

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  • football
Cover of When Friday Comes: Football revolution in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup by James Montague

20. When Friday Comes: Football revolution in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup

By: James Montague

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wils… read more

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Cover of Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul by Kit Holden

21. Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

By: Kit Holden

4.54

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Beyond the booze and the what football really tells us about Germany, the UEFA Euro 2024 hosts––––… read more

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  • football
Cover of We Play On: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fight for Ukraine, Football and Freedom by Andy Brassell

22. We Play On: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fight for Ukraine, Football and Freedom

By: Andy Brassell

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'A gripping account' Sunday Times 'We want to show to the world that we are alive. That we are str… read more

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Cover of The Immortals: The Season My Milan Team Reinvented Football by Arrigo Sacchi

23. The Immortals: The Season My Milan Team Reinvented Football

By: Arrigo Sacchi

4.15

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

When Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan destroyed Steaua Bucharest 4-0 in the 1989 European Cup final, everythin… read more

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Cover of Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team by Robbie Dunne

24. Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team

By: Robbie Dunne

3.67

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Working Class Heroes is much more than the story of a football club. This is the tale of a working-… read more

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Cover of Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) by Mick Herron

25. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

Cover of Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) by Mick Herron

26. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

Cover of The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 42 by Jonathan  Wilson

27. The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 42

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.67

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 43 by Jonathan  Wilson

28. The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue 43

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.67

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine by Nicholas Blincoe

29. More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine

By: Nicholas Blincoe

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's mo… read more

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Cover of Support Your Local League: A South-East Asian Football Odyssey by Antony Sutton

30. Support Your Local League: A South-East Asian Football Odyssey

By: Antony Sutton

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

With the 2014 World Cup as a backdrop, British expat Antony Sutton takes us on a journey as he meet… read more

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Cover of A Sprinkle of Magic: Non-League clubs in the FA Cup by Aaron Moore

31. A Sprinkle of Magic: Non-League clubs in the FA Cup

By: Aaron Moore

2.75

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Sprinkle of Magic tells the fascinating stories of non-league clubs who defied the odds and dared… read more

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8 best-selling politics books like On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World by Shaul Adar

Transform Your Habits

Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World

James Ball , James Ball

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Hamas: A Beginner's Guide

Khaled Hroub

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

John Preston

4.23

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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6 must-read russia books like Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey

3.78

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

1983: The World at the Brink

Taylor Downing

4.27

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