No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
By: Nathan Charles
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Risk is embedded in almost every corner of the popular culture we consume; its hidden exposure is a…
Want to Read $ 6.99If you liked the nonfiction plot in No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13) by Nathan Charles , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
2. The Venice Train
By: Georges Simenon , Alastair Hamilton
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Au retour des vacances, Justin Calmar prend seul le train de Venise a Paris ; sa femme et ses enfan… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Georges Simenon's The Venice Train book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
3. Them: Adventures with Extremists
By: Jon Ronson
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
4. Extras (Uglies, #4)
By: Scott Westerfeld
4.03
Format: None pages,
Fame It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. W… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Extras (Uglies, #4) book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
5. Pretties (Uglies, #2)
By: Scott Westerfeld
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are bey… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Pretties (Uglies, #2) book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
6. Specials (Uglies, #3)
By: Scott Westerfeld
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellen… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Specials (Uglies, #3) book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
7. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
8. Crooked House
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides li… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Agatha Christie's Crooked House book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
9. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
12. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
13. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
14. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
15. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
16. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
17. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
18. Panza de burro
By: Andrea Abreu López
3.80
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Andrea Abreu López's Panza de burro book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro
"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro
19. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
20. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
21. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
22. Dreamland
By: Rosa Rankin-Gee
4.11
Format: 13 pages, Audiobook
For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain tha… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rosa Rankin-Gee's Dreamland book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
23. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
Want to Read $ 11.49Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
24. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
25. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
26. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
27. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
By: A.J. Pearce
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in A.J. Pearce's Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1) book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
28. Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
By: Julia Ebner
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the out… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Julia Ebner's Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
29. In the End, It Was All About Love
By: Musa Okwonga
4.40
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Musa Okwonga's In the End, It Was All About Love book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
30. No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
By: Nathan Charles
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Risk is embedded in almost every corner of the popular culture we consume; its hidden exposure is a… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13) book and Nathan Charles's No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (Inklings, #13)
- nonfiction
