The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
By: Justice Malala
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. A History of South Africa
By: Leonard Thompson
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its earliest human settlements, to events pri… read more
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2. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
By: Sheelah Kolhatkar
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and … read more
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3. Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more
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4. Vietnam: A New History
By: Christopher E. Goscha
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist "Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest… read more
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5. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
6. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
7. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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8. Do Tell
By: Lindsay Lynch
3.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the cloc… read more
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9. 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
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10. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom
By: André de Ruyter
4.56
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
André de Ruyter’s explosive account of his three years as CEO of Eskom, where he dealt with corrupt… read more
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11. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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13. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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14. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
By: Staci Robinson
4.44
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more
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15. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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16. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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17. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
By: Loren Grush
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more
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18. Rise: The Brand New Autobiography
By: Siya Kolisi
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
‘Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.’ M… read more
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19. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the… read more
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"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Suda…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans h…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
20. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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21. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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22. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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23. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
By: Mark Bowden
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more
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24. The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
By: Eve Fairbanks
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Afr… read more
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25. V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II
By: Craig Nelson
4.30
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
“Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesing… read more
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26. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
By: Jonny Steinberg
4.53
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account… read more
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27. The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
By: Justice Malala
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of … read more
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28. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
By: Jon Grinspan
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more
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29. Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture
By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh
4.13
Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition
In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk l… read more
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30. Into the heart of darkness: Confessions of apartheid's assassins
By: Jacques Pauw
4.34
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomena… read more
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