The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
By: Frank Langfitt
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. …
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1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
By: Hisham Matar
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his… read more
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- history
- memoir
"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
2. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
By: Peter Pomerantsev
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
3. The Feast of the Goat
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Paperback
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more
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- politics
"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By: Bettany Hughes
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Hardcover
Istanbulexplores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputabl… read more
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7. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By: Richard McGregor
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's ri… read more
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8. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more
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9. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more
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10. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel , Alfred Birnbaum
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition . In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only… read more
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11. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, the definitive account of the k… read more
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12. Dream of Ding Village
By: Yan Lianke , Cindy Carter
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between autho… read more
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13. China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
By: Peter Martin
4.28
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock tr… read more
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- history
- asia
- politics
- nonfiction
- china
14. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
15. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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- audiobook
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
17. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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18. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
19. Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia
By: David Shambaugh
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
世界正在進入新冷戰時代嗎？ 中國美國，誰會輸誰會贏？ 欲知分曉，請隨作者一同深入兩強競逐實況的縮影之地：東南亞。 【內容說明】 國際關係錯綜複雜，但若問今日最大看點為何，答案應會眾口… read more
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20. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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21. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- history
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22. We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
By: Kai Strittmatter
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most respected investigative reporters reveals how George Orwell’s chilling visi… read more
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"Harmony is when ordinary people don't make a fuss."-Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
"Dla nas, Europejczyków, Chiny były wciąż jeszcze czystą kartą, dziewiczym obszarem dla naszych własnych wyobrażeń. Raz były niebem, raz piekłem, innym razem znów „żółtym niebezpieczeństwem"-Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
23. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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- china
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24. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
25. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
By: Sung-Yoon Lee
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more
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- asia
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
By: Sarah Stodola
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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27. The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
By: Frank Langfitt
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. … read more
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- china
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28. The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
By: Mara Hvistendahl
3.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U… read more
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- china
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29. China: The Bubble That Never Pops
By: Thomas Orlik
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping,… read more
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"Call it “Sinophrenia"-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops
"The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying …"-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops
30. Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
By: Isabel Sun Chao
4.30
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Winner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE .… read more
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31. Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World
By: Zak Dychtwald
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the len… read more
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