15 must-read nonfiction books like Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean

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Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

By: Rory MacLean

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, timely, and darkly comic exposé of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from h…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

4.26

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europ… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"A shadow appeared on the awnings further up the land, gliding across each rectangle of canvas towards my table, sinking in the sag, rising again at the edge, and moving on to the next with a flicker …"

-Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

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2. 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

Similar categories in Darren McGarvey's Poverty Safari book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

Similar categories in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

By: Dominic Smith

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds people… read more

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5. The Cold War: A World History

By: Odd Arne Westad

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more

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6. Berezina

By: Sylvain Tesson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

En octobre 1812, piege dans Moscou en flammes, Napoleon replie la Grande Armee vers la France. Comm… read more

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7. Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia

By: Lisa Dickey

4.16

Format: None pages, ebook

Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times--in 1995, 2005 and 2015--making friends… read more

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8. The Storyteller

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None

4.24

Format: 185 pages,

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller… read more

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9. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

By: Catherine Grace Katz

4.10

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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12. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

14. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more

Similar categories in Sam Quinones's The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Personality and Power

By: Ian Kershaw

3.88

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive bio… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen by Erika Fatland

16. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • russia
  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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17. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

By: Tim Marshall

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman

19. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By: Amelia Gentleman

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation, and led to the resignation of… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Gentleman's The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean

20. Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

By: Rory MacLean

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, timely, and darkly comic exposé of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from h… read more

Similar categories in Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe book and Rory MacLean's Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe

  • russia
  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • politics
  • war
  • germany
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Something About Her

By: Clementine Taylor

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and delicately crafted debut novel about two young women who become entangled in one an… read more

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