29 must-read nonfiction books like Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner

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Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator

By: Paul Corner

3.72

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fas…

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1. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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2. Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war

3. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

By: Daniel Ellsberg

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers-a … read more

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4. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

By: Eugene Rogan

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more

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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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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9. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

4.52

Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

By: Evan Thomas

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
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11. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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14. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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15. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

By: Walter Russell Mead

4.22

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

By: Richard J. Evans

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

17. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini

18. MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them

By: Nouriel Roubini

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Read and pay attention" (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times ): the bestselling author of Crisis Econ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

By: Ben Mezrich

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From  New York Times  bestselling author Ben the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read. BREAKIN… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

By: Dan Stone

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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25. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

By: Samuel G. Freedman

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the Am… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Rachel Chrastil

3.84

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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27. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

28. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner

29. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator

By: Paul Corner

3.72

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fas… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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31. Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto

3.55

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Magellan’s fleet more ressembled the Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail for what must have seemed like forever without making port."

-Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

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