12 Top history books like A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia

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A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

By: Paul Caruana Galizia

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A journalist’s account of the murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reve…

If you liked the history plot in A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Meg Langslow, #17)

By: Donna Andrews

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole… read more

Similar categories in Donna Andrews's The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Meg Langslow, #17) book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • audiobook
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2. Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mrs. Pollifax, #10)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside … read more

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  • audiobook

3. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (Mrs. Pollifax, #9)

By: Dorothy Gilman

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their fir… read more

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4. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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5. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • crime
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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6. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Stuart A. Reid's The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ogilvie's The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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11. 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 Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • 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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12. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food … read more

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13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • unfinished
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

14. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

15. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

Similar categories in Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow, #23) by Donna Andrews

16. Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow, #23)

By: Donna Andrews

4.00

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Donna Andrews's Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow, #23) book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • audiobook
Cover of The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Meg Langslow, #27) by Donna Andrews

17. The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Meg Langslow, #27)

By: Donna Andrews

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Donna Andrews's The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Meg Langslow, #27) book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • audiobook
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18. A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

By: Paul Caruana Galizia

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A journalist’s account of the murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reve… read more

Similar categories in Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • biography
  • history
  • unfinished
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming

19. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

By: Henry Hemming

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Mother: A Life Reclaimed by Colum McCann

20. American Mother: A Life Reclaimed

By: Colum McCann

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In late 2021 Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey. A member of the ISIS group know… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling"

-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed

"Even the worst of humans demand a portion of love."

-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed

"Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife."

-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed

"He didn’t just want to be at the edge, he wanted to become the edge."

-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed

Cover of Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums by Bob  Eckstein

21. Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums

By: Bob Eckstein

4.48

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, smart, entertaining new art book from New Yorker cartoonist and author Bob Eckstein th… read more

Similar categories in Bob Eckstein's Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums book and Paul Caruana Galizia's A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

  • nonfiction
  • history

15 must-read audiobook books like A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia

Transform Your Habits

The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Meg Langslow, #17)

Donna Andrews

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mrs. Pollifax, #10)

Dorothy Gilman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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21 Best audiobook books like The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

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

Christopher Clark

4.18

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