8 best-selling nonfiction books like The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy by Carlos Sardiña Galache

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The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy

By: Carlos Sardiña Galache

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Mayanmar: and the origins of the ethnic cle…

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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. The Idiot

By: Elif Batuman

3.66

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more

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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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4. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

By: Thant Myint-U

3.77

Format: None pages,

For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in… read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more

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6. Outrage

By: Bertil Lintner

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • history
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7. Purple Hibiscus

By: None

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more

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8. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

By: Anand Gopal

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern… read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

10. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

By: James C. Scott

3.97

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size… read more

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11. Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma

By: Emma Larkin

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Read Emma Larkin's posts on the Penguin Blog. A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the… read more

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12. Half of a Yellow Sun

By: None

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more

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13. A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more

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14. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

By: Tom Wright

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

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16. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

By: Noura Erakat

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

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17. On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar

By: Clare Hammond

4.58

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent pr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy

By: Carlos Sardiña Galache

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Mayanmar: and the origins of the ethnic cle… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • islam
  • history

8 best-selling history books like The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy by Carlos Sardiña Galache

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

Thant Myint-U

3.77

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Outrage

Bertil Lintner

4.17

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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

Anand Gopal

3.94

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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