27 best-selling nonfiction books like Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro by Richard Lapper

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Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro

By: Richard Lapper

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Backed by Brazil’s wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened m…

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Cover of Brasil: Uma Biografia by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Heloisa Murgel Starling

1. Brasil: Uma Biografia

By: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz , Heloisa Murgel Starling

4.37

Format: 846 pages, Paperback

This book offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country. The authors not only reconstruct… read more

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  • politics
  • brazil
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

By: Gerard Russell

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distincti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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5. A Death in Brazil

By: Peter Robb

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the aut… read more

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  • politics
  • brazil
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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7. Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Mangament

By: Henry Mintzberg , Bruce W. Ahlstrand , Joseph Lampel

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker He… read more

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8. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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9. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By: Jack Weatherford

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The first key to leadership is self-control."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Cover of Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein

12. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

By: Matthew C. Klein

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

13. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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15. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom         Wright

16. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

By: Tom Wright

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey

17. The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This  New York Times  bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis pl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

18. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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

19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

20. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown

21. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

By: Eliot Brown

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unravelin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni

22. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By: Jimmy Soni

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman

23. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

24. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Cover of Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

25. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Cover of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French

26. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro

By: Richard Lapper

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Backed by Brazil’s wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened m… read more

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  • politics
  • brazil
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America by Joan Donovan

28. Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America

By: Joan Donovan

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation into the digital underworld, where far-right operatives wage wars ag… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola

29. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

By: Nicholas Buccola

4.49

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev

30. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

By: Sergei Guriev

3.98

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"As countries became postindustrial, educated, and internationally linked, their rulers had to adapt—or, at least, pretend to. Amid the third wave of democracy, liberal norms spread worldwide. The for…"

-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"

-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"

-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

Cover of Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World by Rana Foroohar

31. Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World

By: Rana Foroohar

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.37

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Gerard Russell

3.50

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The Places in Between

Rory Stewart

3.89

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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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4.31

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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4.45

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