16 Best history books like Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn

Cover of Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn

Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

By: Patrick Winn

4.19

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming…

If you liked the history plot in Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

1. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By: Johann Hari

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more

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  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

2. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)

By: James Clavell

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggl… read more

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Cover of I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt

4. I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

By: Charles Brandt

4.12

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint hou… read more

Similar categories in Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

5. 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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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Cover of Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

8. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • asia
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

9. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

10. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

11. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Cover of Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

12. Bangkok Wakes to Rain

By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A house in Bangkok is the confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. A m… read more

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  • asia
  • audiobook
"In Thai, to say sorry was to ask for punishment that wouldn't ordinarily be meted out."

-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

"Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give."

-Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Cover of Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa  Hagerty

13. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Hagerty's Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

14. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more

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  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton

15. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

By: Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more

Similar categories in Axton Betz-Hamilton's The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography by Limmy

16. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

By: Limmy

4.34

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Back in primary, I had this feeling like I’d missed a day. Not just a normal day where they taught you how to read or write, but where they taught you something else, something more important. Someth…"

-Limmy, Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography

Cover of The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

17. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Pico Iyer's The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century by Chris Blackhurst

18. Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century

By: Chris Blackhurst

3.72

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you’ – Oliver Bullough, author of … read more

Similar categories in Chris Blackhurst's Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century book and Patrick Winn's Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The more I ponder, I wonder if this isn't a searing, modern example of the peasants' historic inclination to doff their caps and tug their forelocks. To take their punishment and to remain silent. Th…"

-Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century

Cover of Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets by Toby Muse

19. Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

By: Toby Muse

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I roll into the Land of Lightning with a honey bear under my arm and a storm at my heels."

-Toby Muse, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

Cover of All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians by Phil Elwood

20. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn

21. Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia

By: Patrick Winn

4.19

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming… read more

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