20 best-selling nonfiction books like The History of Rum by John Donoghue

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The History of Rum

By: John Donoghue

3.63

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Piña coladas. Mojitos. Hurricanes. Daiquiris. Mai tais. Nothing makes a vacation like one of the…

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1. A Meditation on Murder

By: Robert Thorogood

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: Leader of a Spiritual Retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one o… read more

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2. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. The Korean War

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin

4. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.96

Format: 384 pages,

From the best-selling author of Leviathancomes this sweeping narrative of one of America's most his… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history

5. The Invincible

By: Stanisław Lem

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III which seems bleakly uninhab… read more

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6. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more

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7. Wanderlust: A History of Walking

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

This volume provides a history of walking, exploring the relationship between thinking and walking … read more

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8. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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10. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

By: Grace Blakeley

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

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14. Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)

By: Donna Leon

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

* 9 hours, 46 minutes * In 'TRANSIENT DESIRES', the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series,… read more

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  • audiobook
"There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that didn’t exclude the possibility of Paolo’s presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her …"

-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)

"The area confirmed his feelings about Giudecca: bleak cement buildings, crudely rectangular, devoid of any attempt at embellishment or adornment: cubes for living in, worsened – at least in his eyes …"

-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)

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15. History of Bourbon

By: Ken Albala

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

3 hours and 55 minutes Is bourbon the quintessential American liquor? Bourbon is not just alcoho… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World

By: Kara Cooney

4.08

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

What is power and who is allowed to wield it? Why is female power so rare and, often, so feared? Wh… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. Village of Noobtown (Noobtown, #2)

By: Ryan Rimmel

4.29

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

Well, it could be better. Jim and his literal shoulder demon have survived, so far, by the skin of … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

18. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By: Gary Gerstle

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. American Monsters

By: Adam Jortner

3.99

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

4 hours and 55 minutes Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. The History of Sugar

By: Kelley Deetz

3.63

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Call it dextrose, fructose, maltose, or sucrose. Have it powdered or granulated, by the teaspoon or… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project by Edward G. Lengel

21. Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project

By: Edward G. Lengel

3.99

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Boom. On July 16, 1945, a fireball erupted in the sky over a remote desert in New Mexico - and the … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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22. How Horror Works in Books and Film

By: Shannon Scott

3.75

Format: 4 pages, Audiobook

Why are we scared of ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons, and monsters, when we know they are not rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

23. How 1954 Changed History

By: Michael Flamm

3.92

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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24. The Hidden History of the Holidays

By: Hannah Harvey

3.70

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 8 hours and 3 minutes What are the origins of dressing in costume for Hallowee… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. The History of Rum

By: John Donoghue

3.63

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Piña coladas. Mojitos. Hurricanes. Daiquiris. Mai tais. Nothing makes a vacation like one of the… read more

Similar categories in John Donoghue's The History of Rum book and John Donoghue's The History of Rum

  • history
  • historical
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Assessing America’s National Security Threats

By: H.R. McMaster

3.37

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The United States faces significant dangers and opportunities in the coming century. Malicious acto… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield

By: Pamela Beth Radcliff

3.71

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

The Spanish Civil War was a local conflict on the margins of Europe—a short yet bloody series of ba… read more

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  • history
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28. The History of the Superhero

By: Lan Dong

3.29

Format: None pages, Audiobook

None read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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29. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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30. Cognac: The Seductive Saga of the World's Most Coveted Spirit

By: Kyle Jarrard

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Rich in history and admirable scholarship. . . . It's a fine grande champagne of a book, to be savo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Mindful Eating

By: Carrie Dennett

3.52

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

*Length: 3 hrs Carrie Dennett, a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), shares the evidence b… read more

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  • audiobook

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Michael Pollan

3.72

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3.73

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Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)

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4.14

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4.10

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4.14

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

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John McWhorter

3.99

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