7 Top history books like Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence by Neil Davidson

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Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence

By: Neil Davidson

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What is Scottish independence for? Since the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured…

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
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2. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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3. Why Scottish History Matters

By: None

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Extensively revised for this edition, these essays combine to build a picture of Scottish history f… read more

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4. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more

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5. A Very Easy Death

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more

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"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

6. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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7. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

8. 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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9. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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10. The Antiquary

By: Nicola J. Watson , Walter Scott

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A mysterious young man calling himself 'Lovel' travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seasi… read more

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11. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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12. An Oresteia

By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

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13. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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14. Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more

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"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

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15. Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The overlooked revolutionary women of Eastern Europe and their contribution to socialist feminist h… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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16. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

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"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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17. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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18. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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19. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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20. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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21. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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22. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
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23. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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24. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

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"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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25. Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more

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  • politics
"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"When you divide death by life you find a circle."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

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26. The Burning Girls

By: C.J. Tudor

4.02

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a com… read more

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"You’re not protecting me when you keep stuff from me, you’re just worrying me."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"Comfort always dispels rage more quickly than shouting does. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"...confessing one truth can be a good way to deflect from others. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"The Church isn’t just for those who believe in God. It’s for those who don’t have anything to believe in. The lonely, lost and homeless. A place of refuge."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

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27. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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28. Fascism and Democracy

By: George Orwell

4.20

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect … read more

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  • politics
  • history
"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Libertad de expresión es decir lo que la gente no quiere oír" (George Orwell)"

-George Orwell, Fascism and Democracy

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29. The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Clubs

By: Stewart McGill

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

With the world turning rightwards and democracy looking at its most precarious since the 1930s, the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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30. Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence

By: Neil Davidson

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What is Scottish independence for? Since the referendum, Scottish independence has been captured… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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31. Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week)

By: Jen Stout

4.45

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant.Millions of people … read more

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"Vast rivers, the kind that flow through continents and look like seas at their widest points, hold a particular fascination for me, as do trains. The reason is simple: we don't have these things in S…"

-Jen Stout, Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week)

"In early Soviet times, when Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moscow's policy of korenizatsiia - 'nativisation' - prompted a brief flourishing of a Ukrainian avant-ga…"

-Jen Stout, Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week)

9 Top politics books like Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence by Neil Davidson

Transform Your Habits

Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

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