13 best-selling nonfiction books like I Was A Kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka

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I Was A Kamikaze

By: Ryuji Nagatsuka

4.10

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that b…

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1. Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction

By: Sam Allberry

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It's the hot topic of the moment. Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step with … read more

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  • nonfiction
"But the fact is that the gospel demands everything of all of us. If someone thinks the gospel has slotted into their life quite easily, without causing any major adjustments to their lifestyle or asp…"

-Sam Allberry, Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction

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2. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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3. A Little History of Economics

By: Niall Kishtainy

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

By: James D. Bradley

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The classic New York Timesbestselling story of heroism and sacrifice--by the author of Flags of Our… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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5. Dragon Teeth

By: Michael Crichton

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more

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6. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more

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7. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme

By: John Keegan

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more

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8. I Am Legend and Other Stories

By: Richard Matheson

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and c… read more

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9. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

10. The Key

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to m… read more

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11. Heretics

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays… read more

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12. No Surrender

By: Hiroo Onoda , Charles S. Terry

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Army made world headlines when… read more

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13. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

By: Seth Grahame-Smith

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Indiana, 1818.Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-… read more

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14. The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War

By: William Manchester

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A masterwork of history restored to print and made available for the first time in trade paperback.… read more

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15. Carrier Pilot: One of the greatest pilot's memoirs of WWII - a true aviation classic.

By: None

3.97

Format: None pages,

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16. War's Unwomanly Face

By: None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
"War kills time, precious human time."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

17. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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18. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2)

By: Alexandre Dumas , David Coward , Auguste Maquet

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.' Twenty Years After(1845), the sequel to The Three … read more

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19. Devils in Daylight

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , J. Keith Vincent

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phon… read more

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20. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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  • japan
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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21. Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

By: Jackie Hill Perry

4.40

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Why is it so hard to trust God sometimes?   We say we trust Him with our mouths, but often not with… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The soil from which all sin grows is unbelief."

-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

"Sin at its core is selfish. Holiness at its core is self-giving."

-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

"Holiness is what makes real love possible. Without it, love is purely sentimental, easily misplaced, and unconditionally conditional."

-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

"Holiness (and goodness) should never be determined by the whims, wishes, and standards of a created thing or even a whole culture. Especially when that culture’s ideas are so easily influenced by dec…"

-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

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22. Au revoir là-haut

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.20

Format: 567 pages, Paperback

Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle,deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés… read more

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"Même les grandes joies vous laissent un peu de regret, il y a un fond de manque dans tout ce qu'on vit."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

"Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants."

-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

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23. Bullet Train

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of… read more

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  • japan
"My buddy Thomas helped me survive."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then Tangerine hangs up. Nanao leans against the window and gazes out, gripping his phone like he's waiting for a call from a lover."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Tangerine can't quite place how he felt about insects when he was younger. He has memories of killing them wholesale, but also remembers crying over dead ones and giving them miniature funerals"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then he (Lemon) leans in to Little Minegishi's corpse and takes hold of the back of the head, nodding it up and down like he's operating a puppet. "Lemon, you are a useful train," he says, doing his …"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

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24. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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26. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

By: Robert Leckie

4.22

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"

-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

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27. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

By: Philip Matyszak

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Every time Titus comes to Rome, he feels his sinuses cringe in horror."

-Philip Matyszak, 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

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28. Three Assassins

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

By the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane new thriller, set in Tok… read more

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  • japan
"All the knowledge and science that human beings have, it only helps humans. Get it? No living thing in the world besides humans is happy that humans exist."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

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29. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam

By: William V. Taylor Jr.

4.60

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Vietnam 1967-68 Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of The Last Zero Fighter (Firsthand Accounts and True Stories from Japanese WWII Combat Veterans Book 1) by Dan   King

30. The Last Zero Fighter (Firsthand Accounts and True Stories from Japanese WWII Combat Veterans Book 1)

By: Dan King

4.31

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All a… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Was A Kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka

31. I Was A Kamikaze

By: Ryuji Nagatsuka

4.10

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • military history
  • aviation history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan

11 best-selling history books like I Was A Kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka

Transform Your Habits

A Little History of Economics

Niall Kishtainy

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

James D. Bradley

3.86

Transform Your Habits

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Transform Your Habits

War's Unwomanly Face

None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

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17 Top fiction books like Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

Transform Your Habits

Easy Go

Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Scratch One

Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Drug of Choice

Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Dragon Teeth

Michael Crichton

3.50

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