30 best-selling nonfiction books like How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien

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How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

By: James O'Brien

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"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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3. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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4. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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5. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister

6. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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7. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

8. Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It

By: Chris Bryant

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, n… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The God Desire

By: David Baddiel

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

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10. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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11. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

By: The Secret Barrister

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."

-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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12. In Black and White

By: Alexandra Wilson

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I glanced around the courtroom, quickly at first and then repeated it. Slower this time, taking in… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley

13. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV

By: Rob Burley

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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15. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • society
  • audiobook
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16. What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

By: Marina Hyde

4.10

Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.Re… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
  • society
  • audiobook
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17. Kammy: The Funny and Moving Autobiography by the Broadcasting Legend

By: Chris Kamara

4.30

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Foreword by Ben Shephard‘Everyone loves Kammy . . . Full of humour and endless blunders’ – The Time… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost?

By: Paul Johnson

4.29

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What is the truth about Britain's finances? Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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20. Space: The Human Story

By: Tim Peake

4.38

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee

22. There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

By: Mike Berners-Lee

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

We all know deep down that these are the 'make or break' years for humanity and the planet and that… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

24. The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism

By: Peter Oborne

4.01

Format: None pages, Audiobook

* THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER * 'A clinical and merciless account of Johnson's mendacity...… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

By: James O'Brien

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
  • society
  • self help
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26. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics by Jess Phillips

27. The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics

By: Jess Phillips

4.15

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Drums in the Distance: Journeys into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall

28. Drums in the Distance: Journeys into the Global Far Right

By: Joe Mulhall

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globe. Joe Mulhall … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

By: Jonathan Pie

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know more about history and politics? Then you should probably go and read a proper book. F… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman

31. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

By: Sam Freedman

4.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."

-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

28 must-read audiobook books like How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

Tim Marshall

3.94

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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23 Best audiobook books like In Black and White by Alexandra Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Kerry Hudson

4.15

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