10 must-read nonfiction books like Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones

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Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

By: Lynne Jones

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You are nine years old. Your best friend's father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • audiobook
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. The Cellist of Sarajevo

By: Steven Galloway

4.00

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more

Similar categories in Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • war
  • audiobook
"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"The choices she's made have left her without choice."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."

-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

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3. The Wall

By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more

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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

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4. 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

Similar categories in Philip K. Dick's Ubik book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • audiobook
"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

5. The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

By: Susan Shapiro , Kenan Trebincevic

3.40

Format: 320 pages,

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his… read more

Similar categories in Susan Shapiro's The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

6. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

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7. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

Similar categories in Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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8. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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9. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • audiobook
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

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10. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schur's How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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11. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith

4.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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13. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm W. Nance

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

14. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

By: David Treuer

4.23

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more

Similar categories in David Treuer's The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society

By: Internationalist Commune of Rojava

4.34

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

What is it about the social structures of Rojava that so inspires the fierce loyalty of its defende… read more

Similar categories in Internationalist Commune of Rojava's Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones

16. Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

By: Lynne Jones

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You are nine years old. Your best friend's father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from … read more

Similar categories in Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia book and Lynne Jones's Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia

  • history
  • war
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Steven Galloway

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Ubik

Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

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How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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Gary Stevenson

4.26

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