7 Best nonfiction books like Vietnam by Lonely Planet

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Vietnam

By: Lonely Planet

4.02

Format: 1307 pages, Kindle Edition

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Vietnam is your passport t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Vietnam by Lonely Planet , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Alfred Birnbaum

1. The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more

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"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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3. The Sympathizer

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more

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  • asia
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4. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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  • asia

5. The Man Who Fell to Earth

By: Walter Tevis

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more

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6. Contagious: Why Things Catch On

By: Jonah Berger

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Associatio… read more

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7. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

8. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

By: John Gray

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together bec… read more

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9. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

By: Bill Perkins

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"

-Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

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10. I miei stupidi intenti

By: Bernardo Zannoni

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more

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11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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12. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • nonfiction
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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13. Stay Away from Gretchen: Eine unmögliche Liebe

By: Susanne Abel

4.50

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Eine große Liebe in dunklen Zeiten Der bekannte Kölner Nachrichtenmoderator Tom Monderath macht … read more

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14. Was ich nie gesagt habe: Gretchens Schicksalsfamilie

By: Susanne Abel

4.40

Format: 561 pages, Kindle Edition

Tom Monderath ist frisch verliebt: Mit Jenny erlebt er die glücklichste Zeit seines Lebens. Bis er … read more

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15. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
Cover of L'educazione delle farfalle by Donato Carrisi

16. L'educazione delle farfalle

By: Donato Carrisi

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

La casa di legno brucia nel cuore della notte. Lingue di fuoco illuminano la vallata fra le montagn… read more

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17. The Jane Austen Society

By: Natalie Jenner

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more

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"Saved by Jane Austen"

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"But one can always read Austen."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"You read too much. You read her to much."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

Cover of Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

18. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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  • asia
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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19. The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age

By: Gladys McGarey

4.29

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian still-consulting doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reve… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Lonely Planet Sri Lanka

By: Ryan Ver Berkmoes

3.96

Format: 899 pages, Kindle Edition

Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Sri Lanka is your passport to the … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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21. Vietnam

By: Lonely Planet

4.02

Format: 1307 pages, Kindle Edition

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Vietnam is your passport t… read more

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  • guidebook
  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • guides

5 best-selling asia books like Vietnam by Lonely Planet

Transform Your Habits

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Quiet American

Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Transform Your Habits

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Chris Broad

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Dust Child

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

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16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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