14 Top history books like The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un by Chung Min Lee

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The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un

By: Chung Min Lee

3.24

Format: 320 pages, ebook

North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take?Throughout…

If you liked the history plot in The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un by Chung Min Lee , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

By: Holly Madison

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

"But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Cover of Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim

2. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

5. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

By: John Colapinto

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical trea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.57

Format: None pages,

If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, … read more

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  • nonfiction

7. My Story

By: Chris Stewart , Elizabeth Smart

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

10. Every Note Played

By: Lisa Genova

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From neuroscientist and New York Timesbestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartb… read more

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11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: None pages,

Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more

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12. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

By: Bob Odenkirk

3.60

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

13. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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14. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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15. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more

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"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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16. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

17. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Cover of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

18. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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19. Watch Out for Her

By: Samantha M. Bailey

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Wherever you go… she’ll be watching. Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is relieved to mo… read more

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20. Murder, Interrupted

By: James Patterson

3.79

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival by Omid Scobie

21. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

By: Omid Scobie

3.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

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22. Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator

By: Jung H. Pak

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un, from his nuclear ambiti… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona  Hill

23. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By: Fiona Hill

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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  • asia
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25. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

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26. What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas

By: James Patterson

3.78

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee

27. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea

By: Sung-Yoon Lee

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. The Child of Auschwitz

By: Lily Graham

4.31

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

‘She touched the photograph in its gilt frame that was always on her desk, of a young, thin woman w… read more

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29. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By: Roger McNamee

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopp… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un by Chung Min Lee

30. The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un

By: Chung Min Lee

3.24

Format: 320 pages, ebook

North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take?Throughout… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fall by Michael  Wolff

31. The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

10 Best politics books like The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un by Chung Min Lee

Transform Your Habits

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Suki Kim

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

Omid Scobie

3.31

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14 best-selling audiobook books like The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee

Transform Your Habits

North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

Daniel Tudor , James Pearson

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

Hawon Jung

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

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