9 Best nonfiction books like On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond

Cover of On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

By: Clare Hammond

4.58

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent pr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's White Nights (Shetland Island, #2) book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly

2. Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast

By: Charlie Connelly

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound … read more

Similar categories in Charlie Connelly's Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

3. Burma Chronicles

By: Guy Delisle

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Burma Chronicles' presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot,… read more

Similar categories in Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • travel
  • nonfiction

4. The Truth and Other Lies

By: Imogen Taylor , Sascha Arango

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Taylor's The Truth and Other Lies book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Cover of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree

7. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

Similar categories in Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

Cover of Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

8. Whale

By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more

Similar categories in Cheon Myeong-Kwan's Whale book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

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 Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

10. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Hunted by Abir  Mukherjee

11. Hunted

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more

Similar categories in Abir Mukherjee's Hunted book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of The Accidental Malay by Karina Robles Bahrin

12. The Accidental Malay

By: Karina Robles Bahrin

3.55

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix… read more

Similar categories in Karina Robles Bahrin's The Accidental Malay book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond

13. On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

By: Clare Hammond

4.58

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent pr… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland by Tom Parfitt

14. High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

By: Tom Parfitt

4.34

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about the 1,000-… read more

Similar categories in Tom Parfitt's High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Colours of Death by Patricia  Marques

15. The Colours of Death

By: Patricia Marques

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' Val McDermid, bestselling author of Sti… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Marques's The Colours of Death book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jónasson

16. Death at the Sanatorium

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic best… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Death at the Sanatorium book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

17. Guilty by Definition

By: Susie Dent

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent. … read more

Similar categories in Susie Dent's Guilty by Definition book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Cover of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

18. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

Similar categories in Peter Hessler's Other Rivers: A Chinese Education book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

19. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain

20. Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

By: Mishal Husain

4.30

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYM… read more

Similar categories in Mishal Husain's Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gabriel's Moon by William  Boyd

21. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

Similar categories in William Boyd's Gabriel's Moon book and Clare Hammond's On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

8 best-selling history books like On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond

Transform Your Habits

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast

Charlie Connelly

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

4.14

Transform Your Habits

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

Clare Hammond

4.58

View all the books

20 best-selling fiction books like Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

Transform Your Habits

Greek Lessons

Han Kang

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Boulder

Eva Baltasar

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.