7 best-selling history books like Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce

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Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens

By: James Boyce

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they a…

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1. Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes

4.26

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more

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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

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2. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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3. Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solita… read more

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4. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

By: Christopher Hill

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protesta… read more

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5. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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6. Waterland

By: Graham Swift

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Unknown Binding

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunte… read more

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7. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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8. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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9. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Adam Hochschild

4.18

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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10. The Other Bennet Sister

By: Janice Hadlow

4.16

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more

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"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

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11. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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12. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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13. Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.14

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

By: Peter Ross

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Winter in Sokcho

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.56

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more

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"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

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17. Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics)

By: Claude McKay

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics… read more

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18. Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens

By: James Boyce

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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19. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

By: Vanessa Machado De Oliveira

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

7 must-read nonfiction books like Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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Adam Hochschild

4.18

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Serhii Plokhy

4.08

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Amitav Ghosh

4.14

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17 Top fiction books like Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård

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Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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4.11

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Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

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Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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