22 must-read nonfiction books like Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion by Bill Niven

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Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion

By: Bill Niven

3.65

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

An exposé of Hitler’s relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence i…

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1. Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

By: Peter Hayes , Peter Hayes

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Bot… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
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2. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Neal Gabler

4.00

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
"What Mayer did in the thirties― what he was situated to do as a Jew yearning to belong― was provide reassurance against the anxieties and disruptions of the time. He did this by fashioning a vast, co…"

-Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

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3. The Gilded Age

By: Mark Twain , Charles Dudley Warner

3.53

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and th… read more

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"If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man."

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its exec…"

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

"Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society w…"

-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

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4. Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's… read more

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5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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6. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Wonderful Memories of It's a Wonderful Life by Jimmy Hawkins

7. Wonderful Memories of It's a Wonderful Life

By: Jimmy Hawkins

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Audio CD

read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by David J. Skal

8. Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

By: David J. Skal

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
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9. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

By: Sarah Churchwell

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the genesis of a masterpiece, a Fitzgerald scholar follows the novelist as he begins work o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

11. Definitely Maybe

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Someone or something threatens the lives of leading scientists who are on the verge of major breakt… read more

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12. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recal… read more

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13. All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!

By: Sam Staggs

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

To millions of fans, All About Everepresents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood mo… read more

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14. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more

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15. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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16. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

By: Andy Borowitz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"

-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

17. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
Cover of Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel

18. Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

By: Christian Goeschel

3.87

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

19. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Cover of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings

20. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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21. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Carla Valderrama

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, Carla Valderrama -- creator of Instagram's celebrated @Thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
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23. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

By: James McMurtry Longo

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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24. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film
Cover of The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives by Adam Smyth

25. The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

By: Adam Smyth

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Asian Armageddon, 1944–45 (War in the Far East Book, #3) by Peter Harmsen

26. Asian Armageddon, 1944–45 (War in the Far East Book, #3)

By: Peter Harmsen

4.37

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping account of the final period of the war in the Asia Pacific during WWII. The last inst… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion

By: Bill Niven

3.65

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

An exposé of Hitler’s relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence i… read more

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  • history
  • film
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough

28. The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945

By: Frank McDonough

4.56

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime: a twelve-year descent into ba… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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29. Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2)

By: Peter Harmsen

4.25

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931-1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fort… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the U.S. Government Shapes Cinematic Universes by Tricia Jenkins

31. Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the U.S. Government Shapes Cinematic Universes

By: Tricia Jenkins

3.80

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker deliver a highly original exploration of how the government-entertain… read more

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  • nonfiction

19 best-selling history books like Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion by Bill Niven

Transform Your Habits

Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

Peter Hayes , Peter Hayes

4.42

Transform Your Habits

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Neal Gabler

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

David J. Skal

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Sarah Churchwell

3.64

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6 Top audiobook books like Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James McMurtry Longo

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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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The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

John Glatt

4.01

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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

Bradley W. Hart

3.96

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Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

Mike Rothmiller

4.09

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