10 best-selling nonfiction books like Inside North Korea by Oliver Wainwright

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Inside North Korea

By: Oliver Wainwright

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Pastel Dreams The powerful architecture of North Korea Erased by bombing during the Korean War,…

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1. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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2. Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir

By: Jim Heimann

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

New in town, huh? Look around, kidpalm trees, movie stars, glittering promises of fame and fortune.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Sweet Bean Paste

By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more

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4. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By: Masha Gessen

4.03

Format: 166 pages,

The Man Without a Faceis the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascen… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Marcovaldo

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more

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6. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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7. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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8. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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9. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

By: Frank Herbert

3.88

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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"But you invite ..."

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"In the wrong hands,"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"Only fools prefer the past!"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"For what do you hunger, Lord?"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

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10. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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11. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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13. La Cina è già qui. Perché è urgente capire come pensa il Dragone

By: Giada Messetti

3.91

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Non passa giorno senza che si parli di Cina, tuttavia l'argomento viene spesso affrontato, in pubbl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of California. La fine del sogno by Francesco Costa

14. California. La fine del sogno

By: Francesco Costa

4.13

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probab… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. God Save the Queer: Catechismo femminista

By: Michela Murgia

3.74

Format: 152 pages, ebook

Come fai a tenere insieme la tua fede cattolica e il tuo femminismo? È una domanda che Michela Murg… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Il potere agito senza considerare la libertà individuale non è potenza, ma prepotenza."

-Michela Murgia, God Save the Queer: Catechismo femminista

"L'immaginazione immersiva genera nel cervello le stesse reazioni dell'esperienza sensibile. È reale, cioè produce effetti di realtà, qualunque esperienza che attiva un mutamento nella persona che la …"

-Michela Murgia, God Save the Queer: Catechismo femminista

"Il rifiuto di essere definit3 da un dentro e da un fuori - che in questo libro chiamerò anche "pratica della soglia" - oggi ha il nome di queerness e la sola esistenza della parola apre alla possibil…"

-Michela Murgia, God Save the Queer: Catechismo femminista

"Ogni distinzione tra reale e virtuale, quando si tratta dell'interiorità delle persone, è quindi prima di tutto inutile, perché impedisce di capire l'altrə e non genera alcun incontro, ed è in second…"

-Michela Murgia, God Save the Queer: Catechismo femminista

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16. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith

4.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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17. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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18. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

By: Michael Wolff

3.44

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Inside North Korea

By: Oliver Wainwright

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Pastel Dreams The powerful architecture of North Korea Erased by bombing during the Korean War,… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • politics
  • photography
  • nonfiction

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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

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Catherine Belton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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Giada Messetti

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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Francesco Costa

4.13

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Paul of Dune (Heroes of Dune, #1)

Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Mentats of Dune (Schools of Dune, #2)

Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.95

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Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson

3.79

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4.41

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