12 must-read nonfiction books like The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides by Jenny Kleeman

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The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

By: Jenny Kleeman

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

* $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa* £15,180 to hire a hitman* $368,901 to pay the ave…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides by Jenny Kleeman , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. 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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  • 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

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2. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

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  • audiobook
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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4. 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

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  • audiobook
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5. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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6. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

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7. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

Similar categories in Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI book and Jenny Kleeman's The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • audiobook
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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10. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

Similar categories in Peter Pomerantsev's How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler book and Jenny Kleeman's The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

  • nonfiction
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12. The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

By: Jenny Kleeman

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

* $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa* £15,180 to hire a hitman* $368,901 to pay the ave… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers

By: Andrew Gold

4.08

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the host of award-winning podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold comes The Psychology of Secrets… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Gold's The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers book and Jenny Kleeman's The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

  • nonfiction
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14. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Cure for Sleep

By: Tanya Shadrick

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-d… read more

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  • nonfiction
"And what a thing a book is! How far it can travel, like a seed that carries on a wing or the wind to germinate in another time and place."

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"Oh it is appalling what the body can endure. Its will to live, despite such damage. Our hearts lacking the rabbit’s rare capacity to simply stop and spare us from suffering."

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no cer…"

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

"I was in love with myself, there by the water, but not like Narcissus, unheeding of others. Instead, feeling so at home in my body freed my attention to turn outwards, fully and forever. We are taugh…"

-Tanya Shadrick, The Cure for Sleep

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16. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

By: Catherine Nixey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks

By: Geoff White

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How a new generation of money launderers are plundering the world and why we need to stop them T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.29

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

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20. Let's Be Honest

By: Jess Phillips

4.27

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you imagine a world where politics functioned, every politician told the truth, and the governm… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • audiobook

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Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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Wendy Joseph

4.43

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Sin Blaché

3.68

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Abir Mukherjee

3.90

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Oisín McKenna

3.96

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4.11

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Thomas Grattan

4.04

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Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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