A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen…
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1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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- travel
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"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
By: Misha Glenny
4.09
Format: 752 pages, Paperback
This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
3. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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- nonfiction
- journalism
- history
4. 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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- politics
- social justice
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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
5. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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6. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
By: Calder Walton
4.30
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
7. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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- history
- memoir
- world history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- journalism
8. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- politics
9. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- memoir
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- war
- nonfiction
- journalism
10. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- travel
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
12. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- world history
13. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"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
15. 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
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- history
- nonfiction
- world history
16. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
By: Eyal Press
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more
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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
17. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
By: Tom Holland
3.85
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- world history
18. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- journalism
19. 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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- journalism
- history
- nonfiction
20. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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21. 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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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
22. 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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23. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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- war
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- memoir
24. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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25. The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
By: Peter Hessler
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of … read more
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- journalism
26. The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
By: Margaret Coker
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an el… read more
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- journalism
27. Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
By: Leon McCarron
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The river Tigris is in danger. It has been the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, bu… read more
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28. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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- memoir
- world history
- literature
- travel
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- social justice
- journalism
29. 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
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30. 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
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