18 must-read audiobook books like A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became its Most Liberal by Niall O'Dowd

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A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became its Most Liberal

By: Niall O'Dowd

4.02

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

It’s not your father’s Ireland. Not anymore. A story of modern revolution in Ireland told by the fo…

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1. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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2. Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, #1)

By: Quentin Bates , Lilja Sigurðardóttir

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A young mother resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, as she struggles to keep custody of her s… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
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4. Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

By: Eric Manheimer

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakeningsand the TV series House,Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENT… read more

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5. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

By: Philip Gourevitch

3.36

Format: None pages,

In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more

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6. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

By: Roddy Doyle

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after… read more

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7. The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.27

Format: 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting … read more

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"The count somehow managed to smile at her and frown menacingly at miles at the same time. The sergeants frown was democratically universal."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"- Su padre y el Estado Mayor ya lo intentaron hace quince años; les llevó dos años poner los reglamentos al día. - Bueno, eso es lo que pasa con los comités."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

8. A Kiss of Shadows (Merry Gentry, #1)

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

My name is Meredith 'Merry' Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my… read more

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9. The Angry Wife

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.78

Format: None pages,

Indonesian edition Dua kakak-beradik, dua istri, dua dunia... Tom dan Pierce Delaney sama-sama ikut… read more

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10. A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti, #10)

By: Donna Leon

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian l… read more

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11. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

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12. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • ireland
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14. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • irish literature
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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15. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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16. 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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17. The Day John Died: 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Christopher Andersen

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

"People keep telling me I can be a great man. I'd rather be a good one."—John F. Kennedy, Jr. Where… read more

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18. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

By: John Gibney

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more

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19. Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer

By: Michael Stockham

4.17

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Battling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town a… read more

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Cover of Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes by Chris  Masters

20. Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes

By: Chris Masters

4.21

Format: 717 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith… read more

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  • history
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21. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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22. Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

By: Donal Fallon

4.20

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

"She is no small town, and this is no small story" BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST … read more

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23. On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There

By: Julieann Campbell

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes in modern Irish history *** I… read more

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Cover of Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes

24. Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

By: Jennifer Berry Hawes

4.46

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME chur… read more

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25. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himse… read more

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"This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed."

-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

"[The] crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from the 'heart of empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and coloniz…"

-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

"This desire to experience the vicarious thrills of humiliation is possible only in a country that did not know what national humiliation is really like. But the problem with wish-fulfilment is that y…"

-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

"Even as a game of chance, however, Brexit is especially odd. It is a surreal casino in which the high-rollers are playing for pennies at the blackjack tables while the plebs are stuffing their life s…"

-Fintan O'Toole, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

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26. A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became its Most Liberal

By: Niall O'Dowd

4.02

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

It’s not your father’s Ireland. Not anymore. A story of modern revolution in Ireland told by the fo… read more

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27. Lies We Bury

By: Elle Marr

3.86

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

I was born in captivity… Two decades ago Marissa Mo escaped a basement prison—the only home she’… read more

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Cover of Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot

28. Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

By: John Foot

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a coun… read more

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Cover of All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System (Forbidden Bookshelf) by James Stewart Martin

29. All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System (Forbidden Bookshelf)

By: James Stewart Martin

4.21

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

A scathing attack on Wall Street’s illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewa… read more

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30. 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

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"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.

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31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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15 best-selling history books like A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became its Most Liberal by Niall O'Dowd

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

4.34

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Christopher Andersen

4.23

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John Gibney

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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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McCracken Poston Jr.

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