16 must-read nonfiction books like Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk by Lara Marlowe

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Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk

By: Lara Marlowe

4.29

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and …

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1. The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

3.13

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more

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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

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2. Brother of the More Famous Jack

By: Barbara Trapido

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Gol… read more

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3. The Retreat of Western Liberalism

By: Edward Luce

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Timeschief US columnist and commenta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

By: Robert Fisk

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
  • war
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5. Noah's Ark

By: Barbara Trapido

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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6. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

3.36

Format: 96 pages,

From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, co… read more

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7. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

By: Sally Hayden

4.48

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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8. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • war
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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9. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

By: Riley Black

3.95

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"

-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

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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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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12. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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16. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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17. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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19. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • war
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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20. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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22. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • audiobook
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23. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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24. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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26. I Don't Want to Talk About Home

By: Suad Aldarra

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.' Growing up in deeply conserva… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis

27. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

By: Emily Maitlis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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28. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

By: Aoife Moore

3.82

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The Madness : A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Fergal Keane

By: Fergal Keane

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD.As a journalist Keane has c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk

By: Lara Marlowe

4.29

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

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4.21

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