9 Best comedy books like Jonathan Pie: Off The Record by Jonathan Pie

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Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

By: Jonathan Pie

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know more about history and politics? Then you should probably go and read a proper book. F…

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1. The Taxidermist's Daughter

By: Kate Mosse

3.74

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die … read more

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  • audiobook
"The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence."

-Kate Mosse, The Taxidermist's Daughter

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2. Bad Science

By: Ben Goldacre

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Odd and the Frost Giants

By: Neil Gaiman , Mark Buckingham

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winter isn't ending. Nobody knows why. And Odd has run away from home, even though he can barel… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs, Peter Serafinowicz, None

4. Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

By: Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman , Dirk Maggs , Peter Serafinowicz , None

3.15

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's apocalyptic comic novel. A… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation book and Jonathan Pie's Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook

5. The Wars of the Roses

By: Alison Weir

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for… read more

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6. The Sound of Laughter

By: Peter Kay

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earne… read more

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7. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count book and Jonathan Pie's Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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9. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Jonathan Pie's Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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12. The Secret History of Christmas

By: Bill Bryson

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's The Secret History of Christmas book and Jonathan Pie's Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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15. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book by Jimmy Carr

16. Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

By: Jimmy Carr

4.06

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians* In his mid-twen… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Here’s my advice for dealing with family trauma: accept the apology you’re never going to get and move on. There, I just saved you £25,000 in therapy. You’re welcome."

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"Have you ever been to the Parthenon in Athens? If you’ve seen a photo, it’s nice, right? The photo is nice, but the real thing is fucking amazing. That’s like you. The best photo of you is nothing li…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"But here’s the thing about being human: if we put off doing anything risky for long enough, fear will attach itself. Then what happens is that fear will attract even more fear until the fear becomes …"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"If you can be with a loved one when they die, you should. Her hands getting cold as the circulation shuts down, her breathing getting heavy, the death rattle. Bearing witness to a death is an incredi…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

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17. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster

18. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is help… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, t…"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

"Even without a profile, searching your name on twitter is extremely common, especially if you're a celebrity, as I am and will be until the day I die. I shamefully admit that after quitting twitter, …"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

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19. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

20. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6) by Steve Cavanagh

21. The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.39

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly prosecutor They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals by Jonathan Levi

22. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly

23. Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

By: Billy Connolly

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-m… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places by Adam  Fletcher

24. Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

By: Adam Fletcher

3.84

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

How much would you risk to change your life? After Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher is … read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On by Wes Streeting

25. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace

26. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies

By: Danny Wallace

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Jonathan Pie: Off The Record

By: Jonathan Pie

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know more about history and politics? Then you should probably go and read a proper book. F… read more

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  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding My Voice: The new 2024 autobiography from the star of pop music legends S Club by Rachel Stevens

28. Finding My Voice: The new 2024 autobiography from the star of pop music legends S Club

By: Rachel Stevens

3.36

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

The inspirational first book from S Club 7 legend Rachel Stevens Whether as part of the iconic S Cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s pop groupie

By: Malcolm McLean

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In nineties small-town Surrey, watching Top of the Pops was Malcolm's only escape from boredom and … read more

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  • nonfiction

24 Top audiobook books like Jonathan Pie: Off The Record by Jonathan Pie

Transform Your Habits

The Taxidermist's Daughter

Kate Mosse

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Odd and the Frost Giants

Neil Gaiman , Mark Buckingham

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman , Dirk Maggs , Peter Serafinowicz , None

3.15

Transform Your Habits

Jews Don't Count

David Baddiel

4.21

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19 Best audiobook books like Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace

Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

Becky Holmes

3.88

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