10 Best fiction books like Streltsov by Jonathan Wilson

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Streltsov

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.53

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Jonathan Wilson’s novel. Like everybody else at Torpedo Moscow, Vanya loves Eduard Streltsov, the d…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. Soccer in Sun and Shadow

By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of tha… read more

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"و كان لدى الرب وقت ليهتم بشئون كرة القدم، فكم من مسئوليها سيبقون أحياءً"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"¿En qué se parece el fútbol a Dios? En la devoción que le tienen muchos creyentes y en la desconfianza que le tienen muchos intelectuales"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman…"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"Han pasado los años, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy más que un mendigo de buen fútbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, …"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

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3. The Wolf Road

By: Beth Lewis

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An indomitable young woman fights to escape her past and rejoin humanity in an intimate cat-and-mou… read more

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  • fiction
"You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself."

-Beth Lewis, The Wolf Road

"...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in."

-Beth Lewis, The Wolf Road

"I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off."

-Beth Lewis, The Wolf Road

"I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves."

-Beth Lewis, The Wolf Road

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4. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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  • fiction
"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

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5. Chickenhawk

By: Robert Mason

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more

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6. How Soccer Explains the World

By: Franklin Foer

3.81

Format: 4 pages,

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. In fact, it's a perfect window into the cro… read more

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  • football
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7. Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

3.84

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, an… read more

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"War, my friends, is a thing of beauty."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Go fuck yourself,' I said. I kept it pleasant."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Four years and everything was the same, except me."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

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8. The Gallows Pole

By: Benjamin Myers

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game

By: Marc Bennetts

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1991, the collapse of the USSR seemed to signal the death of the Russian football industry, as t… read more

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  • football

11. In the Miso Soup

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more

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  • fiction

12. Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)

By: Mo Hayder

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID dete… read more

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13. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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14. A Simple Plan

By: Scott Smith

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle… read more

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15. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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16. That's Your Lot

By: Limmy

3.57

Format: 256 pages,

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17. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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18. Off Season (Dead River, #1)

By: Jack Ketchum

3.98

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Off Season, a novel about horror and cannibalism in modern-day Maine, was first released in 19… read more

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19. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • fiction
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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20. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

21. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Cover of Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

22. 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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23. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

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Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

24. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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25. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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  • fiction
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

Cover of Scheisse! We're Going Up! by Kit Holden

26. Scheisse! We're Going Up!

By: Kit Holden

4.42

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more

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  • football
Cover of Streltsov by Jonathan  Wilson

27. Streltsov

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.53

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Jonathan Wilson’s novel. Like everybody else at Torpedo Moscow, Vanya loves Eduard Streltsov, the d… read more

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  • fiction
  • football
Cover of Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia by Chris Etchingham

28. Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Chris Etchingham

3.97

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

In 1987, a Zvonimir Boban-inspired Yugoslavia won the World Under-20 Championships in Chile, and a … read more

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  • football
Cover of Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup by Rhys Richards

29. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup

By: Rhys Richards

4.15

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more

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  • football
Cover of Blood and Circuses: A Football Journey Through Europe’s Rebel Republics by Robert O'Connor

30. Blood and Circuses: A Football Journey Through Europe’s Rebel Republics

By: Robert O'Connor

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the last decade of the twentieth century, Eastern Europe was plunged into chaos following the di… read more

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  • football

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4.20

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Franklin Foer

3.81

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Marc Bennetts

3.83

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Kit Holden

4.42

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Nicholas Shaxson

3.77

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James O'Brien

4.29

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Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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