5 must-read society books like They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other by Sarfraz Manzoor

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They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and a powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - an…

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1. Mrs de Winter

By: Susan Hill

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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2. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

By: James Barr

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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

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4. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

By: Steven Pinker

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more

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5. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By: Amy Chua

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme … read more

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6. How the Dead Speak (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #11)

By: Val McDermid

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an old convent, it quickly becomes clear that s… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"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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8. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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11. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

By: Will Storr

4.14

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

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12. A Song of Me and You

By: Mike Gayle

3.95

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more

Similar categories in Mike Gayle's A Song of Me and You book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • audiobook
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13. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

By: Weiwei Ai

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more

Similar categories in Weiwei Ai's 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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14. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

By: Tim Spector

4.27

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Alastair Campbell's But What Can I Do? book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • race
  • audiobook
"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

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17. How to Stand Up to a Dictator

By: Maria Ressa

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Mercia's Take

By: Daniel Wiles

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

'A brilliant debut' Guardian 1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it's no life f… read more

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19. Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

By: Kia Abdullah

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Victim: Jodie Wolfe, a physically flawed 16-year-old girl accuses four boys in her class of som… read more

Similar categories in Kia Abdullah's Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1) book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • audiobook
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20. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World

By: Dom Joly

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more

Similar categories in Dom Joly's The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. They

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change. … read more

Similar categories in Sarfraz Manzoor's They book and Sarfraz Manzoor's They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other

  • race
  • islam
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook

14 Best audiobook books like They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other by Sarfraz Manzoor

Transform Your Habits

How the Dead Speak (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #11)

Val McDermid

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

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15 best-selling audiobook books like Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well by Tim Spector

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Daniel E. Lieberman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

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