18 Best nonfiction books like Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox

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Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

By: Dan Hancox

4.44

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

DIZZEE RASCAL. WILEY. KANO. STORMZY. SKEPTA. JME. SHYSTIE. WRETCH 32. GHETTS. LETHAL BIZZLE. TINCHY…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim  Marshall

1. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

By: Tim Marshall

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen   Jones

2. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Cover of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

3. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Radetzky March

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more

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5. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • nonfiction
  • history

6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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9. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more

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10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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11. Mr Loverman

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more

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12. The Story of The Streets

By: None

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

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13. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Belton's Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

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"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoë Schiffer

16. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schiffer's Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

17. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • biography
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

18. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Cover of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

19. 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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  • history
  • race
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

20. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

Similar categories in George Monbiot's Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • nonfiction
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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21. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • race
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

Cover of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

22. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

Similar categories in Dan Charnas's Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Cover of Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner

23. Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

By: Julia Ebner

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the out… read more

Similar categories in Julia Ebner's Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

24. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Cover of Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox

25. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

By: Dan Hancox

4.44

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

DIZZEE RASCAL. WILEY. KANO. STORMZY. SKEPTA. JME. SHYSTIE. WRETCH 32. GHETTS. LETHAL BIZZLE. TINCHY… read more

Similar categories in Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • music
  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right by Oliver Eagleton

26. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right

By: Oliver Eagleton

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime by Jeffrey Boakye

27. Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime

By: Jeffrey Boakye

4.32

Format: None pages, None

Hold Tight is the book that kick started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 … read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Boakye's Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime book and Dan Hancox's Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom

28. Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain

By: Aniefiok Ekpoudom

4.19

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chronic… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover by Dj Target

29. Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover

By: Dj Target

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An explosive insider account of grime, from subculture to international phenomenon. ***** A group… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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30. Eskiboy

By: Wiley

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Wiley is Wiley, and if you don’t know me, you don’t know much.’*Winner of the NME Best Music Book … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of This is Grime by Hattie Collins

31. This is Grime

By: Hattie Collins

4.41

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrated by its originators This is Grime is the first oral history of the most influential and inv… read more

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  • music

11 Top history books like Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox

Transform Your Habits

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

Tim Marshall

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

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15 Best nonfiction books like Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime by Jeffrey Boakye

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

4.34

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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