12 must-read politics books like Taking Sides by Sherine Tadros

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Taking Sides

By: Sherine Tadros

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist — and her rousing de…

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1. The Good Immigrant

By: Nikesh Shukla

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

2. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

By: Lynsey Addario

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit … read more

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3. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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5. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

By: Zahra Hankir

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homeland… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
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7. 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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8. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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9. 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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10. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

Similar categories in David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum

11. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

By: Lindsey Hilsum

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Hilsum's In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"

-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

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12. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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13. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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14. Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

By: John Sellars

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful li… read more

Similar categories in John Sellars's Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
"Queremos creer que la humanidad ha evolucionado —y, con suerte, mejorado— en los últimos dos mil años, pero Séneca nos demuestra que muchos de los asuntos con los que la gente se debate hoy en día no…"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"Marco Aurelio podría muy bien haberse mostrado como un emperador romano en busca de una reputación como sabio filósofo estoico, pero lo que uno se encuentra en las Meditaciones no es más que un hombr…"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"El proceso pasa por tres fases, señala Séneca: la primera, un primer impulso involuntario, es decir, una reacción fisiológica natural que escapa a nuestro control; la segunda, un juicio —que sí está …"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"Crisipo comparaba el hecho de estar bajo los efectos de una emoción con correr demasiado deprisa. Una vez que se ha cogido cierta cantidad de impulso, no es fácil detenerse. El movimiento está fuera …"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

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15. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

Similar categories in Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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16. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

By: Clarissa Ward

4.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict rep… read more

Similar categories in Clarissa Ward's On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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17. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

By: Angela Saini

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more

Similar categories in Angela Saini's The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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20. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

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21. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

By: Ali Smith

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more

Similar categories in Ali Smith's Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4) book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • politics
"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"

-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

Cover of The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East by Rebecca Lowe

22. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East

By: Rebecca Lowe

4.19

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Lowe's The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home

By: Mona Hajjar Halaby

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more

Similar categories in Mona Hajjar Halaby's In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury

24. Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered

By: Turtle Bunbury

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful cha… read more

Similar categories in Turtle Bunbury's Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
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25. Das Feld

By: Robert Seethaler

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Wenn die Toten auf ihr Leben zurückblicken könnten, wovon würden sie erzählen? Wäre es eine Geschic… read more

Similar categories in Robert Seethaler's Das Feld book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

"Ik heb het over echte waanzin. Waanzin die een stropdas draagt en gepoetste schoenen. De waanzin die 's avonds naar de badkamerspiegel knikt en niet meer bijkomt van het lachen, omdat hij weet dat hi…"

-Robert Seethaler, Das Feld

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26. 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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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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27. The Madness : A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Fergal Keane

By: Fergal Keane

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD.As a journalist Keane has c… read more

Similar categories in Fergal Keane's The Madness : A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Fergal Keane book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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28. Taking Sides

By: Sherine Tadros

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist — and her rousing de… read more

Similar categories in Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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29. Playing Games

By: Huma Qureshi

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a … read more

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30. A Mouth Full of Salt

By: Reem Gaafar

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Nile brought them life, but the Nile was not their friend.A small farming village in North Suda… read more

Similar categories in Reem Gaafar's A Mouth Full of Salt book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

"The river was like a bit of string, following her through time and place, anchoring her here – to a village that she hated with all her heart – but also moving her along."

-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

"Fatima was dragging her feet. She hated houses of mourning. And the only thing worse than a house of mourning was a house that was waiting for a body to appear because without a body, the actual mour…"

-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

"When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at …"

-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

"Mohamed Altahir was exhausted. He had lost count of how many hours he had been awake. He couldn’t remember the last time he had been up for this long, or when there had been this much chaos in such a…"

-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt

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31. But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging

By: Hala Gorani

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-tro… read more

Similar categories in Hala Gorani's But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging book and Sherine Tadros's Taking Sides

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The problem with coming from nowhere and everywhere is that no matter how people describe you, even if they show tremendous goodwill and curiosity, you still feel mislabeled, misunderstood, sometimes…"

-Hala Gorani, But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging

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